Pippa Crerar
Political Editor at The Guardian
Political Editor, The Guardian || Political Journalist of the Year #EditorsUK @pippacrerar.bsky.social
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2 days ago |
theguardian.com | Pippa Crerar
“We must never accept the Tory or media narrative that often scapegoats and demonises migrants,” Keir Starmer wrote in 2020. “Problems of low pay, housing and public services are not caused by migrants – they are caused by a failed economic model.”Much has changed since Starmer was running to be leader of the Labour party – not least, that as prime minister he now has a broader electorate to keep on side.
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2 days ago |
theguardian.com | Pippa Crerar |Kiran Stacey |Frankie Tobi |Zoe Hitch
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the government’s plans to drastically reduce net migration. Will it work? And how will it land with the public and the Labour party?
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4 days ago |
theguardian.com | Pippa Crerar
Whitehall departments will be required to set out plans to move thousands of staff out of London as part of their bids to secure funding from the Treasury at the spending review. The proposal to relocate civil service jobs to a dozen towns and cities across the UK is aimed at bringing the development of government policy closer to the communities it affects. Around one in five – or 100,000 – civil servants are based in London, with about 70,000 working in the north-west of England.
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5 days ago |
theguardian.com | Pippa Crerar
The UK has “ambitious” plans to secure a closer trading partnership with the EU, Keir Starmer has said, as he argued the British public had moved on from Brexit. Before a UK-EU summit, the prime minister urged people to “look forward, not back” as the country embarked on a new era of its relationship with the bloc.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Pippa Crerar
Downing Street has been accused of being “completely tone deaf” to the damage wreaked by winter fuel cuts as new polling suggested two-thirds of voters would back a rethink on the policy. Senior Labour ministers have privately warned the policy is an electoral disaster while Eluned Morgan, the Welsh first minister, said that she was “losing patience” with UK Labour as she urged the government to think again.
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Keir Starmer sums up his approach to government in five words: "Serious pragmatism defeats performative politics".
Car export tariffs cut from 27.5% to 10% for 100k yearly quota, almost total UK export last year. Steel tariffs cut from 25% to zero. New reciprocal market access on beef – with UK farmers given tariff free quota for 13k metric tonnes. No 10 insists no weakening of food
EXCL: More than 40 Labour MPs have warned the prime minister that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support” and have called for a pause and change in direction @jessicaelgot reveals https://t.co/1aeGGbheKa