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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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| Angela Rayner: bring back Boris | Angela Rayner, Labour deputy leader, praised Boris Johnson as the Tories' "biggest election winner" for the purposes of parliamentary debate when she stood in for Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions. Attack being the best form of defence, she raised the subject of her "housing arrangements" before Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, could, and criticised the government's record on housing. And she finished by accusing Dowden of having "stabbed Boris Johnson in the back to get his mate into No 10". It is possible, of course, that the Tories would be better off if they had kept Johnson in office, because they wouldn't have had the Liz Truss interregnum. But Rayner is just making mischief, just as Tony Blair used to do when he would solemnly tell broadsheet interviewers that he thought the Conservatives had made a terrible mistake when they got rid of Margaret Thatcher. | |
| Who is the prime minister's adviser on ministerial interests: Alex Allan, Christopher Geidt, Daniel Greenberg or Laurie Magnus? | Answer at the bottom of today's email | |
| | Michael O'Leary said the UK government had not approached his budget airline | |
| | Professor Tim Bale on the bogus promise of higher defence spending | | | | Home secretary admits 'clunky phraseology' about the effects of 1994 genocide | |
| What else you need to know today | - Jonathan Jones, former head of the government legal service, has written about the possible challenges to the Rwanda removals plan
- Joe Murphy's sketch of Prime Minister's Questions for The Independent is here
- Professor Philip Cowley has written about the political science of potholes: in one study, "each pothole complaint lowered an incumbent's vote share by 0.2 percentage points"
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| Many voters will face new rules on 2 May for the first time, including a requirement for voter ID and the end of second-preference votes... Read more |
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| Tomorrow inside the Westminster bubble | Our political commentator Andrew Grice on what to look out for | Another quiet Thursday in the Commons, starting with Cabinet Office questions at 9.30am. Followed by urgent questions and ministerial statements, if any, and Penny Mordaunt's weekly video for her leadership campaign, otherwise known as "next week's business". Then two backbench debates, on Lesbian Visibility week (led by Kate Osborne, Labour), and on autism employment (led by Sir Robert Buckland, Conservative).
Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, is guest speaker at the parliamentary press gallery lunch. Expect news. Nick Thomas-Symonds, shadow cabinet minister, speaks on ethics in government at the Institute for Government at 12.30pm. Wes Streeting, shadow health secretary, addresses the Royal College of Physicians conference at 2.40pm. | |
| "We had a situation where you could return people to France ... that's not available at the moment. [Because of Brexit?] Because of the situation we're in."
David Cameron, foreign secretary, dodges the B-word |
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