The House of Commons was surprisingly full on the government side this afternoon to hear John Glen, the shadow paymaster general and an ally of Rishi Sunak's, ask an "urgent" question about the "reporting and acceptance of ministerial gifts and hospitality". Ellie Reeves, the Labour Party chair, chose attack as the best form of defence, and said the government was closing the "Tory loophole" that allowed ministers to disclose gifts less often and inless detail than other MPs. She said she was going to "take no lectures" from the party that was responsible for Downing Street parties during lockdown, and disdained the "cynical and confected outrage" from the other side. But she didn't explain why Keir Starmer had paid back £6,000 of gifts he had received: that was a "personal decision for the prime minister", she said. Petty and partisan on both sides, I thought. |
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| The Mayor of London calls for 'closer alignment' with the EU |
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| Prime minister pledges to 'rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment' |
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| Keir Starmer vowed that he and his cabinet would donate to the campaign, which aims to raise £300,000 to build a safe house |
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What else you need to know today |
- The government now claims that its summit secured £63bn of investment in Britain – up from the £50bn target set in advance – although the Conservatives insist a lot of it is reannounced deals agreed under the previous government
- My colleagues David Maddox and Kate Devlin, both journalists in Scotland during his zenith, record their memories of Alex Salmond; my Twitter thread on his last thread is here
- I wrote at the weekend that the "first 100 days" milestone will soon be forgotten – what matters is whether Labour can deliver over four years
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The quietly radical Co-op Party is a driving force behind Labour |
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Archie Mitchell on a little-known political party that has a big influence on the government's policy... Read more |
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Tomorrow inside the Westminster bubble |
What to look out for on Tuesday |
The cabinet will meet and presumbaly congratulate itself on today's investment conference. The Commons sits at 11.30am for health questions, followed, after urgent questions and ministerial statements, if any, by the second reading of the bill to exclude the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords – "second reading" is the first vote, on the principle of the bill. "The attitudes of Britain's ethnic minority population" will be discussed at online event with Anand Menon, Sophie Stowers and Zain Mohyuddin of UK in a Changing Europe, and James Kanagasooriam of Focaldata, 1pm. |
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"'Diamond heist' is a very negative term, officer. I prefer to call it 'carbon capture'" Tom Freeman |
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