PMQs – snap verdict
In his final months as prime minister, PMQs was a horrible ordeal for Rishi Sunak, and there were not many occasions where he made the weather. But today, unburdened by the insist to deffinish the record of the Conservative party in rulement, and able to deploy the standard PMQs technique of answering a ask to which the PM either can’t or won’t answer, he had a accomplished outing. He mostly contestd Keir Starmer on two publishs – engageers’ national insurance contributions, and fiscal rules – and came away with evasive non-answers that were mighty enough to originate news.
Of the two topics, national insurance is probably more meaningful. There has already been ample talk of the rulement using the budget to alter the definition of debt it engages for its debt center – as Kiran Stacey alerts, Rachel Reeves liftd this at cabinet this week – and Starmer’s wriggling on this publish was more a validateation of what we anticipate than anyskinnyg very unpredicted. But his national insurance answer will entice a lot more attention, particularly from the Tory papers. As Sunak pointed out, Labour never quite clarified during the election campaign what not raising taxes for “laboring people” unbenevolentt, and if Reeves insists to lift meaningful money in the budget, engageers’ NICs must be a potential center.
That shelp, the trades were all relatively low-energy, and neither Sunak nor Starmer seemed very interested in treating PMQs as a phirediatorial contest. Sunak, of course, is on his way out, and he seemed preoccupied with proving that he was right all alengthy during the election campaign when he alerted about Labour raising taxes – ie in triumphning an argument about the past, not the future.
And Starmer seems to have almost zero interest in the yah-boo, carry outative side of PMQs. He was not very compelling in the chamber today, but his authority remained intact and his MPs did not seem to mind. Agetst another opposition directer, his deficiency of interest in jokes and intelligent put-downs might be a problem for him. But it wasn’t today.
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There is no excengage for Keir Starmer excluding the directers of Scotland’s cities from a forum which is set uped to increase interrulemental cooperation which their counterparts in England will join …
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Hosting this encountering on a day trip to Scotland but choosing to snub our local directers while inviting directers in England is not fair an denounce – it is yet another gaffe from a prime minister who is stumbling from misapvalidate to misapvalidate and increasingly watchs appreciate he doesn’t understand what he is doing.
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Here is the PA Media story from PMQs.
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Keir Starmer has been accengaged of pondering raising engageer national insurance contributions and changing borrotriumphg rules after he flunked to rule out either proposal.
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The prime minister was repeatedly advised by Conservative party directer Rishi Sunak to elucidate his position amid alerts that chancellor Rachel Reeves is eyeing up ways to unlock billions of pounds for insertitional spfinishing.
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After Starmer shelp he would not be drawn on such matters ahead of the budget on October 30, Sunak claimed his successor in Downing Street had “discmissed the door” to raising engageer national insurance including on pensions and “fiddling the figures” to asconfident more can be borrowed.
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At the ambiguous election, Labour shelp it would not incrmitigate taxes on laboring people and integrated a promisement not to incrmitigate national insurance, income tax or VAT.
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The party also summarized its fiscal rules to asconfident it firm day-to-day costs with revenues and getting debt descfinishing as a split of the economy by the fifth year of predicts.
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Reports have presented Reeves has been pondering whether to engage a branch offent debt meaconfident to the one she inherited from the previous Tory rulement.
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Speaking at PMQs Sunak mocked Starmer over the ousting of Sue Gray as his chief of staff before switching attention to the economy.
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The createer prime minister shelp: “I understand that not everyskinnyg or everyone has persistd his first 100 days in rulement, so can he validate that when he promised not to lift income tax, national insurance or VAT, that promisement applies to both engageer and engageee national insurance contributions?”
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Starmer replied: “We made an absolute promisement in relation to not raising tax on laboring people. He, of course, was the expert’s expert on raising taxes. What did we get in return for it? We got a broken economy, broken accessible services, and a £22bn bdeficiency hole in the economy. We’re here to stabilise the economy, and we will do so.”
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Sunak shelp he did not skinnyk Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli was “buying any of that nonsense”, inserting: “I’m not asking about the budget, I’m asking particularpartner about the promise he made to the British people.
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“So let me ask him aget, fair to elucidate his own promise. Does his promisement not to lift national insurance utilize to both engageee and engageer national insurance contributions?”
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Starmer replied: “We set out our promises in our manifesto. We were returned with a huge convey inantity to alter the country for the better, and I stick to my promises in the manifesto.”
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Turning attention to fiscal rules, Sunak shelp: “Before the election his chancellor shelp changing the debt center in the fiscal rules would be tantamount to fiddling the figures. Does he still consent with the chancellor?”
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Starmer shelp: “This is literpartner the man who was in accuse of the economy, 14 years they’ve crashed the economy. What did they depart? A £22bn bdeficiency hole in the economy. Unappreciate them we won’t walk past it. We will mend it. And it’s only becaengage we are stabilising the economy that we are getting the spendment into this country.”
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Yesterday Byline Times alerted, on the basis of a increateing from the Home Office, that John Woodcock (Lord Walney) was no lengthyer in post as the rulement’s autonomous adviser on political arrangeility and interfereion. But Woodcock, a createer Labour MP who published a alert recommfinishing sweeping, and even draconian redisjoineions on protests, seems to have had a reprieve. At the post-PMQs lobby increateing a No 10 spokesperson shelp he remains in place for now. The spokesperson went on:
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The home secretary is appraiseing the landscape in relation to our approach to counter extremism, and that labor will ponder the role in the round as part of part of the rulement’s approach to counter extremism.
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In his final months as prime minister, PMQs was a horrible ordeal for Rishi Sunak, and there were not many occasions where he made the weather. But today, unburdened by the insist to deffinish the record of the Conservative party in rulement, and able to deploy the standard PMQs technique of answering a ask to which the PM either can’t or won’t answer, he had a accomplished outing. He mostly contestd Keir Starmer on two publishs – engageers’ national insurance contributions, and fiscal rules – and came away with evasive non-answers that were mighty enough to originate news.
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Of the two topics, national insurance is probably more meaningful. There has already been ample talk of the rulement using the budget to alter the definition of debt it engages for its debt center – as Kiran Stacey alerts, Rachel Reeves liftd this at cabinet this week – and Starmer’s wriggling on this publish was more a validateation of what we anticipate than anyskinnyg very unpredicted. But his national insurance answer will entice a lot more attention, particularly from the Tory papers. As Sunak pointed out, Labour never quite clarified during the election campaign what not raising taxes for “laboring people” unbenevolentt, and if Reeves insists to lift meaningful money in the budget, engageers’ NICs must be a potential center.
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That shelp, the trades were all relatively low-energy, and neither Sunak nor Starmer seemed very interested in treating PMQs as a phirediatorial contest. Sunak, of course, is on his way out, and he seemed preoccupied with proving that he was right all alengthy during the election campaign when he alerted about Labour raising taxes – ie in triumphning an argument about the past, not the future.
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And Starmer seems to have almost zero interest in the yah-boo, carry outative side of PMQs. He was not very compelling in the chamber today, but his authority remained intact and his MPs did not seem to mind. Agetst another opposition directer, his deficiency of interest in jokes and intelligent put-downs might be a problem for him. But it wasn’t today.
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David Davis (Con) asks about the helped dying bill. The time constraints will originate it challenging for MPs to get the bill right. If MPs flunk to do this, the consequences will be horrible. Will the rulement promise to giving the Commons time to debate it properly, as happened with the David Steel abortion bill.
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Starmer says it is convey inant to get the bill right. There is a insist for a talkion on this convey inant publish, he says.
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He says, if the bill gets a second reading, it will go to promisetee.
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But he flunks to promise to ensuring that the bill is guaranteed all the time it insists to pass.
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UPDATE: Davis shelp:
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On the helped dying confidential members’ bill, the rulement is quite rightly staying unpartisan. But the authentic publish with that bill is the time constraints of confidential legislation originate it very difficult to get it right first time.
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If we get this wrong first time the consequences are too horrible to contempprocrastinateed.
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In 1967 the rulement of the day gave rulement time to apvalidate David Steel’s abortion bill to go thcdimiserablemireful.
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Would the prime minister promise to giving extra time out of rulement time to this bill to asconfident that we get this right first time?
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And Starmer replied:
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I thank him for raising this ask on a repartner convey inant publish, and I do comprehfinish there are powerentirey held watchs apass the Hoengage and on both sides and wiskinny both sides, if I can put it in that way.
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I do consent with him that it is convey inant that we asconfident that any alter to the law, if there is to be one, is effective.
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Now, if this hoengage gives the bill a second reading, it will, of course, then go to the promisetee as normal, which will apvalidate that more detailed scruminuscule.
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But we do insist a talkion more widely on this convey inant publish.
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Julian Smith (Con) asks about exceptional educational insists budgets in Yorksemploy.
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Starmer says this is an publish of authentic worry. Children with SEND “are being flunked”, he says. The rulement has to alter that, he says. He says he wants to lift standards.
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Meg Hillier (Lab) asks when the child pobviousy taskforce will alert.
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Starmer says it is appalling that child pobviousy went up by 700,000 after 2010. The taskforce alert will be published in spring next year, he says.
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Ed Davey, the Lib Dem directer, asks why Starmer has ruled out a youth mobility scheme with the EU.
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Starmer says the UK insists a better deal with the EU. He says he met Ursula von der Leyen to talk improving it. But the rulement will stick to the red lines it set out at the election.
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Davey says fishermen in the Falkland Islands either have to pay huge amounts in tariffs to sell fish to the EU, or sail under a Spanish flag. Will the rulement insertress this?
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Starmer says his uncle almost lost his life when the ship he was on was torpedoed during the Falklands war. He says the Falklands are British and will stay British. That is personal to him, he says.
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(He does not insertress the point about fish.)
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UPDATE: Starmer shelp:
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My uncle proximately lost his life when his ship was torpedoed deffinishing the Falklands, they are British, and they will remain British. And sovereignty in Gibraltar is equpartner not to be barachieved.
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Of course we will do everyskinnyg we can to originate it easier for all businesses to trade more freely so that we can increase our economy. I’ve been very evident about the Falklands, it’s personal to me.
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Sunak asks about alerts that the rulement will alter the definition of debt. He says Rachel Reeves engaged to portray this as fiddling the figures.
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Starmer declines to be drawn on that, and criticises the Tories’ handling of the economy.
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Sunak asks the ask aget. Does Starmer consent with what Reeves shelp about changing the fiscal rules.
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Starmer claims Sunak is back to his better script, claiming the economy is doing well.
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UPDATE: Sunak shelp:
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Before the election his chancellor shelp changing the debt center in the fiscal rules would be tantamount to fiddling the figures.
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Does he still consent with the chancellor?
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And Starmer replied:
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This is literpartner the man who was in accuse of the economy, 14 years they’ve crashed the economy. What did they depart? A £22bn bdeficiency hole in the economy.
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Unappreciate them we won’t walk past it. We will mend it. And it’s only becaengage we are stabilising the economy that we are getting the spendment into this country. But I still watch he has hasn’t talked about that spendment.
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We are powering ahead with immacuprocrastinateed British energy, we are changing the rules to originate 1.5 million homes and returning railways to accessible ownership, and they’ve got noskinnyg to say about any of this.
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Sunak asks if the promisement not to lift tax for laboring people applies to engageers’ national insurance as well as engageees’ national insurance.
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Starmer says he will not comment on the budget, but says the rulement will stabilise the economy.
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Sunak says he was not asking about the budget. He asks the ask aget.
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Starmer says he stands by his promises in the manifesto.
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And he criticises Sunak for not alludeing the recent spendment proclaimments. He catalogs a scant of them, and says the Tories are fair arguing about scrapping maternity pay.
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UPDATE: Sunak shelp:
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When [Starmer] talks about security at labor, once aget, it’s one rule for him and another rule for everyone else.
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But I understand that not everyskinnyg or everyone has persistd his first 100 days in rulement, so can he validate that when he promised not to lift income tax, national insurance or VAT, that promisement applies to both engageer and engageee National Insurance contributions?
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And Starmer replied:
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We made an absolute promisement in relation to not raising tax on laboring people.
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He, of course, was the expert’s expert on raising taxes. What did we get in return for it? We got a broken economy, broken accessible services, and a £22bn bdeficiency hole in the economy. We’re here to stabilise the economy, and we will do so.
n
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Then Sunak shelp:
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n
I don’t skinnyk even Lord Alli is buying any of that nonsense. I’m not asking about the budget, I’m asking particularpartner about the promise he made the British people. So let me ask him aget, fair to elucidate his own promise. Does his promisement not to lift national insurance utilize to both engageee and engageer national insurance contributions?
n
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Starmer replied:
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n
We set out our promises in the manifesto. We were returned with a huge convey inantity to alter the country for the better, and I stick to my promises in the manifesto.
n
I watch it’s ask three and he hasn’t yet received the spendment into this country. We’ve had in recent months, £8bn from Amazon for jobs apass the country, £10n from Bdeficiencystone for jobs apass the north east, £22bn on carbon seize jobs in the north-east and north-west, £500m for UK bengages in in Northern Ireland. While we are spending in our economy, what are they doing? They’re arguing about whether to scrap maternity pay.
n
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And Sunak shelp:
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n
I’m very charmd to receive spendments that this rulement barachieved.
n
When it comes to his answer on tax, businesses apass the country will have set up his answer fair as reassuring as Sue Gray did when he promised to protect her job.
n
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Keir Starmer is taking PMQs lowly. Here is the catalog of MPs down to ask a ask.
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MPs will vote on the raccesss’ rights bill this afternoon. The main purpose of the bill is to finish no-fault evictions, which was someskinnyg that the last rulement promised to do and which would have happened with its raccesss’ recreate bill, until it was watered down and dropped.
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But today the Conservatives will vote agetst. Kemi Badenoch, the shadow housing secretary and directership truthfulate, has tabled this reasoned amfinishment on behalf of the opposition.
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That this hoengage, while recognising the insist for security and affordability for tenants in the confidential rented sector and admireing landlords’ property rights, deteriorates to give a second reading to the raccesss’ rights bill becaengage the bill flunks to deinhabitr those outcomes and will shrink the provide of housing in the confidential rented sector, forcing up rents and reducing choice for tenants, especipartner youthful people, becaengage it presents to erase section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 without ensuring that courts and tribunals can deal with claims from raccesss and owners promptly and fairly, becaengage it is not accompanied by a proper appraisement of the cumulative impact of alters relating to energy efficiency regulation, advertising and rent arrears on costs and entry for new tenants and becaengage the regulatory unconfidentty will dishearten institutional spendment in the Build to Rent sector and undermine hoengageoriginateing.
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In an article for the Daily Telegraph today she goes further, claiming it will convey in a create of rent regulate. She says:
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Today Labour are conveying forward legislation that will wreck the rental taget.
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It will act as a mighty disincentive for anyone to rent out their property.
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Instead of landlord and tenant freely accessing into a reduce they can renew when the terms expire, all tenancies will persist indefinitely until finishd by the tenant – there will be no more mended-term tenancies.
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If a landlord wants to recover ownion of their property they will have to get a court order.
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Worse than that, the landlord can only utilize to get their own property back on the basis of a confiinsist catalog of reasons.
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What sort of taget is it where you can’t choose what to do with your own property? This is a violation of the principle of freedom of reduce.
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Labour is also conveying in rent regulate thcdimiserablemireful the back door, as appraises will be able to choose a taget rent instead of the law of provide and insist.
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Kemi Badenoch has getd a beneficial finishoresement this morning. Iain Duncan Smith, a createer party directer, posted a message on social media this morning saying he was backing her becaengage she was able of facing up to the “challenging truths from that horrible election result”. He shelp:
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As today is the last parliamentary round to choose the final two contfinishers, I skinnyk it’s right to say who I hope will become the next directer of the @Conservatives Party.
That person must be able of returning the Party to its central cherishs and core beliefs. Who recognises…
— Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green (@MPIainDS) October 9, 2024
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As today is the last parliamentary round to choose the final two contfinishers, I skinnyk it’s right to say who I hope will become the next directer of the @Conservatives Party.
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That person must be able of returning the Party to its central cherishs and core beliefs. Who recognises why millions of Conservative voters deserted us in July, experienceing that the Party in rulement was no lengthyer behaving appreciate the one they voted for overwhelmingly in 2019.
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The individual who does not achieve for the default basic console blanket of our past accomplishments but faces up to the challenging truths from that horrible election result, and has the humility to lget from it as well as the strength to do someskinnyg about it.
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Most of all, the individual who is not fair the right person for today, but who can increase with the Party over the next five years, so that by 2029 the electorate will be able to see what has been accomplishd, that the Conservative Party has finishd its journey of repair and presents a authentic alternative to this dysfunctional Labour rulement, and once aget is fit to rule.
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I count on that person to be @KemiBadenoch and I shall be voting for her today.
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The line about not achieveing for the “default basic console blanket of our past accomplishments” is a evident jibe at James Cleverly, who has been talking most about what the Tories accomplishd in office, and arguably least about how they should alter going ahead.
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Good morning. Keir Starmer is taking PMQs today, for the first time since the conference season recess and the inside No 10 reshuffle that saw his chief of staff, Sue Gray, in effect sacked. But there may be even more interest in what Bob Bdeficiencyman, chair of the Conservative 1922 Committee, has to say at 3.30pm, when he proclaims the names of the two Tory directership truthfulates who will go to the ballot of members.
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One of them is about 99.999% confident to be James Cleverly. The other will be either Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick. They are both truthfulates for the Tory right, but Badenoch is a lifelengthy, conviction righttriumphger, very famous with Tory members, while Jenrick is someone elected to parliament as a Cameroon up-to-dateiser who says he has been radicalised into favouring ECHR distake partal by his experience in a Home Office unable to regulate irnormal migration.
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Until the Tory conference, Jenrick was the evident bookoriginaters’ favourite. But today he is the truthfulate struggling the most.
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Jenrick was only one vote ahead of Badenoch yesterday and no one is self-guaranteed about predicting what will happen today. That is becaengage Tory MPs are not fair voting for who they want to be directer. They are voting for who they want to be in the final two (alerted of who they want as directer), and who they don’t want in the final two (becaengage stopping the truthfulate they disappreciate frequently matters more than backing the person they appreciate).
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In a last minute finisheavor to triumph over some extra votes, Jenrick gave an interwatch to Kay Burley on Sky News this morning. (Badenoch’s team probably choosed that the skinnyg most probable to help her campaign would be grasping her off the media – she frequently discovers it challenging to get thcdimiserablemireful an interwatch without patronising or arguing with the curraccess in a manner that reinforces claims she’s polarizing and abrasive.) When Burley asked Jenrick why Cleverly did so well yesterday, Jenrick implied that he was the vicitm of “horse trading” by MPs swapping votes to grasp him out. He replied:
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There’s always horse trading, OK, in the final stages ….
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I’ve been around lengthy enough to understand that in the last scant votes in these directership contests there’s always people moving around votes and so on.
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When Burley asked if he was recommending that the Badenoch camp was lfinishing votes to Cleverly, to grasp Jenrick off the final lowcatalog, Jenrick replied: “I don’t understand.”
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Neither do we, and perhaps we never will. Strategic vote swapping does happen in ballots appreciate this, but people almost never confess it, and it can be dangery. And, while sometimes it comprises the campaign deal withr of the truthfulate in the direct actively asking a handful of helpers to vote for the feebleer opponent, it can fair comprise MPs freelancing. Around half of Tory MPs have not declared accessiblely who they are helping, and some of them will be grasping that adviseation confidential even from colleagues.
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But if there is vote swapping happening today, Jenrick is more probable to be the beneficiary than the victim. The most recent survey of Tory members present Badenoch would beat Cleverly in the final ballot, but Jenrick wouldn’t, and so the Cleverly team (the only ones theoreticpartner with spare votes to divvy up) have an incentive to get Jenrick over the line.
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In his interwatch, Jenrick also claimed that he would relocate the Tories back onto the “normal ground” of British politics – a pitch to the centre set uped to request to the 20 Tory MPs who voted yesterday for Tom Tugfinishhat, who is now deleted. Jenrick shelp:
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In this directership contest over the last scant months I skinnyk I’ve been the only truthfulate who has set out particular, evident policies to tackle the huge publishs facing our country – the NHS, how do we increase the economy, how do we tackle immigration, safe our borders
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Becaengage I skinnyk it’s so convey inant that the Conservative party gets back onto the normal ground of British politics, insertressing the skinnygs that the accessible repartner nurture about.
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And the polling presents that, of the truthfulates, I am the best placed to triumph back the millions of votes to we lost to Recreate, and the votes to be lost on our left to the Lib Dems.
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If we don’t do that, then there’s no future for our party, and we will be stuck in the political savageerness for years to come.
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So the party insists now somebody who is professional, who’s contendnt, and is centered on the most salient publishs, the skinnygs that your watchers repartner nurture about. That is me. That’s what I want to do for the Conservative party.
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Here is the agfinisha for the day.
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11.30am: Bridget Phillipson apvalidates asks in the Commons in her capacity as minister for women and equivalentities.
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Noon: Keir Starmer faces Rishi Sunak at PMQs.
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After 12.30pm: Angela Rayner, the deputy PM and housing secretary, discmisss the second reading of the raccesss’ rights bill.
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1.30pm: Tory MPs begin voing in the final parliamentary ballot in the Tory directership contest.
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3.30pm: Bob Bdeficiencyman, chair of the 1922 Committee, proclaims the results of the Tory directership ballot.
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Also, David Lammy, the foreign secretary, is in the Middle East, visiting Bahrain and Jordan.
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If you want to flag someskinnyg up advisently, it is best to engage social media. I’m still using X and I’ll see someskinnyg insertressed to @AndrewSparrow very speedyly. I’m also trying Bluesky (@andrewsparrowgdn) and Threads (@andrewsparrowtheprotectian).
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I discover it very collaborative when readers point out misapvalidates, even inmeaningful typos (no error is too minuscule to accurate). And I discover your asks very fascinating too. I can’t promise to answer to them all, but I will try to answer to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.
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Key events
Jeremy Hunt, the shadow chancellor, has advised the rulement to “be authentic” about its budget set ups. Speaking about Keir Starmer’s comments at PMQs (see 2.13pm), he shelp:
The prime minister has today left the door discmiss to the Labour Party fractureing their promises to the British people by raising taxes and increasing borrotriumphg, leaving future generations to pick up the bill and dangering higher interest rates.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves should have had the courage and conviction to be authentic about the tax and borrotriumphg set ups they always intentional.
Gus O’Donnell, a createer cabinet secretary, has shelp he skinnyks there are not enough “policy weightyweights” laboring in No 10. Speaking on the World at One, where he was asked about the departure of Sue Gray as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, O’Donnell shelp:
This is I skinnyk a loss all round. It’s a loss for Sue Gray, of her job, and it’s a loss for the rulement in her abilities.”
I do skinnyk there is a insist for Number 10 to have a lot more weightyweights in there – policy weightyweights. I recall during Gordon Brown’s era there being very better members of the policy unit – people appreciate David Miliband, Geoff Mulgan, Andrew Adonis. They’re not there at the minute, and I skinnyk that is a lowdescfinish.
SNP claims Council of Nations and Regions will be ‘denounce’ to Scotland becaengage Scottish mayors deleted
On Friday Keir Starmer is due to arrange the first encountering of his Council of Nations and Regions in Scotland. But the SNP are claiming it will be an “denounce” to Scotland becaengage English mayors have been askd, but not Scottish ones. In a statement publishd by the SNP, the MSP Bob Doris says:
There is no excengage for Keir Starmer excluding the directers of Scotland’s cities from a forum which is set uped to increase interrulemental cooperation which their counterparts in England will join …
Hosting this encountering on a day trip to Scotland but choosing to snub our local directers while inviting directers in England is not fair an denounce – it is yet another gaffe from a prime minister who is stumbling from misapvalidate to misapvalidate and increasingly watchs appreciate he doesn’t understand what he is doing.
Starmer declines to rule out raising engageers’ national insurance and changing borrotriumphg rules in budget
Here is the PA Media story from PMQs.
Keir Starmer has been accengaged of pondering raising engageer national insurance contributions and changing borrotriumphg rules after he flunked to rule out either proposal.
The prime minister was repeatedly advised by Conservative party directer Rishi Sunak to elucidate his position amid alerts that chancellor Rachel Reeves is eyeing up ways to unlock billions of pounds for insertitional spfinishing.
After Starmer shelp he would not be drawn on such matters ahead of the budget on October 30, Sunak claimed his successor in Downing Street had “discmissed the door” to raising engageer national insurance including on pensions and “fiddling the figures” to asconfident more can be borrowed.
At the ambiguous election, Labour shelp it would not incrmitigate taxes on laboring people and integrated a promisement not to incrmitigate national insurance, income tax or VAT.
The party also summarized its fiscal rules to asconfident it firm day-to-day costs with revenues and getting debt descfinishing as a split of the economy by the fifth year of predicts.
Reports have presented Reeves has been pondering whether to engage a branch offent debt meaconfident to the one she inherited from the previous Tory rulement.
Speaking at PMQs Sunak mocked Starmer over the ousting of Sue Gray as his chief of staff before switching attention to the economy.
The createer prime minister shelp: “I understand that not everyskinnyg or everyone has persistd his first 100 days in rulement, so can he validate that when he promised not to lift income tax, national insurance or VAT, that promisement applies to both engageer and engageee national insurance contributions?”
Starmer replied: “We made an absolute promisement in relation to not raising tax on laboring people. He, of course, was the expert’s expert on raising taxes. What did we get in return for it? We got a broken economy, broken accessible services, and a £22bn bdeficiency hole in the economy. We’re here to stabilise the economy, and we will do so.”
Sunak shelp he did not skinnyk Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli was “buying any of that nonsense”, inserting: “I’m not asking about the budget, I’m asking particularpartner about the promise he made to the British people.
“So let me ask him aget, fair to elucidate his own promise. Does his promisement not to lift national insurance utilize to both engageee and engageer national insurance contributions?”
Starmer replied: “We set out our promises in our manifesto. We were returned with a huge convey inantity to alter the country for the better, and I stick to my promises in the manifesto.”
Turning attention to fiscal rules, Sunak shelp: “Before the election his chancellor shelp changing the debt center in the fiscal rules would be tantamount to fiddling the figures. Does he still consent with the chancellor?”
Starmer shelp: “This is literpartner the man who was in accuse of the economy, 14 years they’ve crashed the economy. What did they depart? A £22bn bdeficiency hole in the economy. Unappreciate them we won’t walk past it. We will mend it. And it’s only becaengage we are stabilising the economy that we are getting the spendment into this country.”
John Woodcock still in place as autonomous adviser on political arrangeility, No 10 says, after alerts shelp he was out
Yesterday Byline Times alerted, on the basis of a increateing from the Home Office, that John Woodcock (Lord Walney) was no lengthyer in post as the rulement’s autonomous adviser on political arrangeility and interfereion. But Woodcock, a createer Labour MP who published a alert recommfinishing sweeping, and even draconian redisjoineions on protests, seems to have had a reprieve. At the post-PMQs lobby increateing a No 10 spokesperson shelp he remains in place for now. The spokesperson went on:
The home secretary is appraiseing the landscape in relation to our approach to counter extremism, and that labor will ponder the role in the round as part of part of the rulement’s approach to counter extremism.
PMQs – snap verdict
In his final months as prime minister, PMQs was a horrible ordeal for Rishi Sunak, and there were not many occasions where he made the weather. But today, unburdened by the insist to deffinish the record of the Conservative party in rulement, and able to deploy the standard PMQs technique of answering a ask to which the PM either can’t or won’t answer, he had a accomplished outing. He mostly contestd Keir Starmer on two publishs – engageers’ national insurance contributions, and fiscal rules – and came away with evasive non-answers that were mighty enough to originate news.
Of the two topics, national insurance is probably more meaningful. There has already been ample talk of the rulement using the budget to alter the definition of debt it engages for its debt center – as Kiran Stacey alerts, Rachel Reeves liftd this at cabinet this week – and Starmer’s wriggling on this publish was more a validateation of what we anticipate than anyskinnyg very unpredicted. But his national insurance answer will entice a lot more attention, particularly from the Tory papers. As Sunak pointed out, Labour never quite clarified during the election campaign what not raising taxes for “laboring people” unbenevolentt, and if Reeves insists to lift meaningful money in the budget, engageers’ NICs must be a potential center.
That shelp, the trades were all relatively low-energy, and neither Sunak nor Starmer seemed very interested in treating PMQs as a phirediatorial contest. Sunak, of course, is on his way out, and he seemed preoccupied with proving that he was right all alengthy during the election campaign when he alerted about Labour raising taxes – ie in triumphning an argument about the past, not the future.
And Starmer seems to have almost zero interest in the yah-boo, carry outative side of PMQs. He was not very compelling in the chamber today, but his authority remained intact and his MPs did not seem to mind. Agetst another opposition directer, his deficiency of interest in jokes and intelligent put-downs might be a problem for him. But it wasn’t today.
And I have beefed up the post at 12.10pm with the Sunak/Starmer trades about the fiscal rules. Aget, you may have to renew the page for the modernize to ecombine.
I have beefed up the post at 12.08pm with the filled quotes from the trade about national insurance. You may insist to renew the page to get the modernize to ecombine.
And this is from my colleague Kiran Stacey on the topic.
Interesting ask from Sunak to Starmer on whether he wants to levy national insurance on engageers’ pension contributions. The PM doesn’t knock down the idea, and this is what the IFS says about it. pic.twitter.com/zc1sQ74wx7
— Kiran Stacey (@kiranstacey) October 9, 2024
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Interesting ask from Sunak to Starmer on whether he wants to levy national insurance on engageers’ pension contributions. The PM doesn’t knock down the idea, and this is what the IFS says about it. pic.twitter.com/zc1sQ74wx7
— Kiran Stacey (@kiranstacey) October 9, 2024
Dawn Butler (Lab) asks about Bdeficiency History Month. She says she is going to a Temptations event organised by the Speaker to tag this. Will the Commons hbetter a debate on this?
Starmer says he probably should not be going to an event called Temptations at the moment. But he says he is phired Butler is coming to the Bdeficiency History Month reception at No 10 tonight he is arrangeing.
And that was the last ask.
