Numbers that will really worry Rishi Sunak |
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| Never mind Boris Johnson, by-elections or small boats, Rishi Sunak ought to be worried most about the NHS waiting list numbers that were published today.
The former prime minister may be trying to embarrass Sunak over disclosures to the Covid inquiry. His resignation honours list may require two by-elections that the Tories will lose. And Sunak is unlikely to be able to claim to have "stopped the boats" by the time of the election.
But the NHS matters more to people, and the latest figures show that there are now 220,000 more people waiting for treatment than when Sunak made cutting waiting lists one of his five priorities.
Ben Zaranko of the Institute for Fiscal Studies says: "There's no putting a positive spin on today's figures." It is getting hard to see how the numbers can be turned round in any meaningful way before people get to vote on this prime minister's future.
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| A plan to place asylum seekers in a barge at an east London dock has been rejected, Sadiq Khan told Suella Braverman. |
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| The PM is poised to approve the 50 names to "clear the decks" – sparking fury from the opposition. |
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| Tobias Ellwood and Alicia Kearns urged the PM to bring Beijing in to his big AI summit this autumn. |
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What else do you need to know today? |
- Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden will hold a joint news conference in Washington shortly
- Boris Johnson has been given a draft of the privileges committee report on whether he knowingly misled parliament about lockdown parties – expect selective leaks imminently
- Dale Vince, the green entrepreneur who has given money to Labour and to Just Stop Oil, was on a Just Stop Oil demo in London today
- Peter Kellner says don't believe that poll (featured here yesterday) giving Labour a majority of 290
- Thanks to Adam Forrest and Archie Mitchell, without whom this newsletter would not be possible
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- Katy Balls of The Spectator on why Rishi Sunak fears the Covid inquiry (paywall)
- Nick Gibb, schools minister, interviewed by Andrew Gimson and Paul Goodman, on phonics, ministerial continuity and how inequality is undermining support for capitalism
- Tom McTague of UnHerd on Rishi Sunak's "perfectly sensible foreign policy"
- James Hanning asks what noise an electric car should make (paywall)
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A look back at the week in Westminster |
Unusually quiet week in parliament, with few urgent questions and ministerial statements to bulk out the government's thin legislative programme. So much so that the Commons sat for just 2 hours 46 minutes on Tuesday, adjourning at 2.20pm. The main political stories, along with many lobby journalists, were in Washington, where Rishi Sunak met Joe Biden today. |
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