Rachel Cunliffe
Associate Political Editor at The New Statesman
Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
Kemi Badenoch must be fuming that Keir Starmer is flying back from the G7 in Canada right now, with Angela Rayner standing in for him at PMQs and convention dictating that the Leader of the Opposition also offers up a deputy. So it was that in a week where the headline topic remains the grooming gang scandal that Badenoch has decided is one of her key passion projects, it was one of her shadow ministers asking the questions.
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
It’s a political maxim that if you’re going to be forced into a particular decision anyway, you may as well decide to do it yourself first. It’s a lesson Keir Starmer could do with learning. We got confirmation from the Home Secretary on Monday afternoon of news briefed over the weekend: the government is launching a public inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, on the recommendation of Dame Louise Casey and her “rapid audit”.
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
“The findings are here, and they are damning.” This was the assessment of Yvette Cooper in response to Baroness Casey’s rapid national audit of the grooming gangs scandal. As the Home Secretary stood up to make her statement on the Casey report, a group of schoolchildren were hurriedly shepherded out of the public gallery, where they had a moment ago been watching Education Questions.
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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
Mel Stride wanted this job. Tory MPs believe he ran to be party leader to raise his profile and shore up his chances of getting this job. But he must have known what it was. If Rachel Reeves’ task – managing the economy at a moment of ever-increasing spending demands and ever-stagnating funds – is a tightrope balancing act, the role of the shadow chancellor is a juggling one, where the balls have been replaced by a couple of chainsaws and a live hand grenade. The grenade is Liz Truss.
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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
“Well, around 60 years ago America was at war with a country called Vietnam. And the government didn’t have enough soldiers, so they made young men who didn’t want to be soldiers go to Vietnam to fight, and sadly lots of them died. And some people didn’t support the war, and certainly didn’t support men being forced to fight in it if they didn’t want to. And the way of showing they didn’t support it was for them to grow their hair really long.
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