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3 days ago |
politics.co.uk | Josh Self
News News Zia Yusuf has resigned as chairman of Reform UK, stating he no longer believes working to elect a Reform government is a “good use of my time”. In a surprise announcement posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday evening, Yusuf said: “11 months ago I became chairman of Reform.
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3 days ago |
politics.co.uk | Josh Self
News News Liz Truss should be barred from standing as a Conservative election candidate to show “that we get it”, a former minister has said. Conor Burns, who served consecutively as a Northern Ireland and international trade minister from 2021-2022, said that his party must “draw a line under the ClusterTruss”. Truss’ premiership in autumn 2022 lasted just 49 days. Her “mini-budget” included a series of unfunded tax cuts, triggering significant market turmoil.
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3 days ago |
politics.co.uk | Josh Self
The Conservative Party “will never” risk economic stability with unfunded tax cuts like those in Liz Truss’ mini-budget, the shadow chancellor declared in a speech this morning. The address, delivered by Mel Stride, marks the clearest repudiation yet of the failed former prime minister, by the party that elected her leader in 2022. “For a few weeks, we put at risk the very stability which Conservatives had always said must be carefully protected”, the shadow chancellor conceded.
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3 days ago |
politics.co.uk | Josh Self
An apparent split has emerged within Reform UK after the party’s newest MP, Sarah Pochin, called for a ban on burqas in Britain “in the interests of public safety”. The new MP, who won the recent Runcorn and Helsby by-election with a margin of just six votes over Labour, asked her first question at PMQs on Wednesday. She called on the prime minister to “follow the lead of France, Denmark, Belgium and others” in banning the burqa.
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4 days ago |
politics.co.uk | Josh Self
Kemi Badenoch putting in an uncharacteristically strong performance would usually be the headline story to emerge from a session prime minister’s questions. Badenoch has shown little sign of improvement at the despatch box since emerging as Conservative leader in November last year. But this afternoon, contrary to her crystallising reputation for commons missteps, she succeeded in making the prime minister look uncomfortable.
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