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Tuesday, February 27, 2024 |
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The Conservative Party is so deeply divided that it cannot help itself. Rishi Sunak tried to unite the party when he became prime minister, notably including Suella Braverman in his cabinet. Eventually he was forced to sack her because she wouldn't accept collective responsibility, but he kept Lee Anderson on as a deputy chair of the party, a symbolic non-job that pretended the Boris Johnson coalition of One Nation moderates and working-class populists was still intact. Now the Boris coalition has broken and Sunak has thrown his lot in with the sensibles, having brought David Cameron back into the cabinet. Yet the prime minister still tries to keep the GB News wing of the party on board by refusing to say Anderson's words were Islamophobic. All that does is keep the story going and the Tory party's divisions in the headlines. |
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What is the only event to have had a bigger TV audience in the US than the Super Bowl this month? |
Answer at the bottom of today's email |
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| James Bagge, who plans to stand against the former PM at the election, says she has 'little judgement' |
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| Former postmaster who led the campaign for justice for Horizon victims speaks to MPs |
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| Zoe Grunewald reports on the hustings 2,000 miles from Gaza |
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What else you need to know today |
- "I've been sacked for doing my job. I've been sacked for doing what the law asks of me," David Neal, former Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, told the Home Affairs Committee
- Andrew Mitchell, the foreign secretary's deputy in the Commons, told MPs "the arms export committee does its work effectively" when asked about arms sales to Israel. Zarah Sultana, the Labour MP, pointed out "the arms export committee, formally known as the Committees on Arms Export Controls, no longer exists ... last month its responsibilities were transferred to the Business and Trade Committee"
- I wrote about living in Tower Hamlets, which Paul Scully, former minister for London, said is a "no go area", possibly because of a few Palestinian flags on lamp posts
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What can the IFS warning tell us about next week's Budget? |
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Long before the independent Office for Budget Responsibility was set up, the Institute for Fiscal Studies acted as a kind of fiscal watchdog... Read more |
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Tomorrow inside the Westminster bubble |
Our political commentator Andrew Grice on what to look out for |
Rishi Sunak might hope to avoid the allegations of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party at Prime Minister's Questions at noon. Other parties may have other ideas. The Commons will sit at 11.30am for questions on Northern Ireland.
Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, will give evidence to a science select committee inquiry into the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic from 2pm. Mims Davies, minister for disabled people and work, will publish a review of the employment of autistic people by Robert Buckland, the former justice secretary. John Healey, the shadow defence secretary, will speak about "A new era for UK defence with Labour" to the Policy Exchange think tank at 1pm. |
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"On the evidence before us, we are heading for electoral oblivion"
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And finally... Eighty years ago this month: Clement Attlee, deputy PM, outlined plans to "construct a modern airfield at Heath Row" in February 1944 |
Quiz answer: The Moon landing in 1969, estimated audience 125-150m, versus 123m |
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