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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 |
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One Nation Tory fightback |
Respect to Tobias Ellwood, the Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, who is leading the fightback by the "One Nation" wing of the party against the confused and contradictory launch of "Popular Conservatism" by some of the most unpopular people in the Tory party. "If we move to the extreme right, we will move ourselves out of British politics," Ellwood told GB News, which most of the time is a cheerleader for the 57 varieties of Tory fundamentalists. "This party will move into oblivion if we continue on this right-wing approach." Ellwood is the brave purveyor of blunt truths in today's Tory party. At the weekend he called for "the power of selecting the leader" to be "returned to the parliamentary party" – otherwise "this slide toward right-wing populism will gift the centre ground to Labour (as we saw under former Prime Minister Tony Blair), and maroon the Tories at the extreme". |
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Daniel Handler is better known by what fruity pen name? |
Answer at the bottom of today's email |
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| PM claims he is not a 'betting person' – despite saying last year he loved spread betting on cricket |
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| | Former deputy chair of Tory party tells Liz Truss's PopCon event that climate change 'never comes up' on doorstep | |
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| Briefly chancellor responsible for disastrous mini-Budget of Liz Truss's government, he is quitting parliament |
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What else you need to know today |
- Victoria Atkins, the health secretary, is preparing to offer dentists cash incentives to take on NHS patients and send teams to schools to treat children's teeth – she will announce the "dental recovery plan" for England tomorrow, but details were inadvertently sent to MPs of all parties today
- Michael Gove, levelling-up secretary, appeared to admit to a Lords committee that he had been "banned" by the Treasury from spending on capital projects
- Nigel Farage helped destroy the Tory party – but he could still end up leading it, argues Sean O'Grady
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Could Labour's loss of Muslim support be a problem at the election? |
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The party has been losing the support of Muslim voters since Israel launched its assault on Gaza in response to the Hamas 7 October terror attacks... Read more |
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Tomorrow inside the Westminster bubble |
Our political commentator Andrew Grice on what to look out for |
Prime Minister's Questions at noon should be more sombre than usual, as party leaders and MPs send their good wishes to the King.
The Commons will sit at 11.30am for women and equalities questions to Kemi Badenoch and her ministerial team. Votes on the police grant and local government finance will give MPs a chance to raise the parlous state of town hall finances.
The Westminster Hall mini-chamber does not normally attract much attention. But there may be an exception when Tory MP Rachel Maclean stages a debate on the deportation of foreign national offenders at 4.30pm. |
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"Too many of our colleagues ... want to be popular at London dinner parties. I never get invited to these parties." |
Liz Truss, former prime minister, at the Popular Conservatism event |
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A snap poll by YouGov found that 72 per cent said it was "unacceptable" for the prime minister to accept a £1,000 bet on his Rwanda policy; 14 per cent said it was "acceptable" |
Quiz answer: Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events |
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