Keir Starmer wants a workers' Brexit |
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| At Prime Minister's Questions Keir Starmer accused Rishi Sunak of having "lost control of immigration". He said the government had issued so many work visas because it was running a "low-wage Tory economy". The strong implication, although it was never spelt out, was that if immigration were restricted, wages for British workers would rise. I remember Boris Johnson trying to make that argument – "labour shortages are good, actually" – and getting short shrift. But maybe it will work for better for Labour. As Andrew Adonis observes, Starmer has recently made "a virtue of conservatism and stability", but trying to outflank the Tories on "we voted Leave to cut immigration not increase it" is a bold strike indeed. |
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Danny Finkelstein, Damian Green, Mark Francois, David Gauke, Uma Fernandes (Suella Braverman's mother) and Kwasi Kwarteng have all been candidates in which seat? |
Answer at the bottom of today's email |
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| The chair has accused the Cabinet of holding back information on Johnson's handling of the pandemic. |
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| Rishi Sunak consulted with his ethics adviser and decided an investigation "not necessary". |
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| The polling firm said its research would give "serious cause for concern" to the SNP, projected to fall to 27 seats. |
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- To back up Starmer's PMQs criticism of the government's immigration record (above), Labour has published its plan to raise the pay threshold by 20 per cent for work visas in shortage occupations
- Rachel Reeves repeated in an interview with the FT that Labour's plan to borrow £28bn a year extra for the Green Prosperity Plan would have to fit within her fiscal rules (does that mean it will go ahead or not?); she also made a speech in Washington saying "globalisation is dead"
- Where does the Brexit red tape end? Sign up for our next Independent online event on Thursday next week
- Thanks to Adam Forrest and Archie Mitchell, without whom this newsletter would not be possible
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- Alice Thomson of The Times says the university lecturers' strike is a terrible injustice inflicted on students (paywall)
- Andrew Grice says the Boris Johnson fallout could have a devastating effect on Rishi Sunak's electoral chances
- Peter Kellner on the uniform vs proportional swing debate: he argues that Labour's poll lead will narrow as voters switch from "mid-term protest" to "the moment of choice at a general election"
- James Dennison's review of The Conservative Party After Brexit, by Prof Tim Bale
- I wrote for Independent Premium about Suella Braverman's stay of execution
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What to look out for tomorrow |
Big day for immigration statistics: latest estimates for the year 2022 will be published by the Office for National Statistics at 9.30am. These overlap with the previous estimate of net immigration of 500,000 for the year to June 2022, so the numbers for the second half of 2021 drop out and new figures for the second half of 2022 are added: the total is expected to be between 700,000 and 1m. The Commons sits from 9.30am with Defra questions (Therese Coffey) and questions to the attorney general (Victoria Prentis). After any urgent questions and ministerial statements, there will be two backbench debates, one on the Ukrainian Holomodor, Stalin's "terror-famine" of 1932-33, and one on Islamophobia.
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"I wouldn't go quite so far as to say I could never be friends with someone who doesn't love it, but I would say I could be friends with anyone who does." Ian Leslie on The Rachel Papers, by Martin Amis |
Quiz answer: Brent East, in 1987, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2003 (by-election) and 2005. All were Conservative candidates apart from Finkelstein, who stood for the SDP
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