Starmer condemns Badenoch for aprohibitdoning traverse-party consensus on climate crisis policy
Keir Starmer’s statement to MPs about the G20 and Cop29 summits bigly summoccurd announcments made while he was at those events. Kemi Badenoch, the novel Conservative guideer, reacted. Normassociate exalters appreciate this are relatively gentle, becaengage the main parties normally widely concur on foreign policy publishs, but Badenoch was very critical of Starmer’s foreign policy positions, particularly on climate, and Starmer condemned her for shattering what had been a traverse-party consensus on reducing emissions.
Referring to Cop29, Badenoch shelp:
Cop has not yet endd, so we do not comprehend what the final impact on the UK will be. But we do comprehend the prime minister’s rush to a further cut in our emissions [a reference to this proclaimment] is yet another example of politicians putting unwiseinutive term accessibleity above extfinished term schedulening.
When will he unveil the schedules to accomplish this novel center?
Where this rulement does the right skinnyg, we will back it. Yet, where it puts politics before people and press frees before pragmaticity, we will hgreater them to account.
It is time for politicians to alert the truth, and it is time the prime minister provided some substance to back this costly rhetoric.
Badenoch pointed out that, by joining the G20 summit in Brazil, Starmer was out of London for the farmers’ protests. And she ended:
The prime minister’s foreign policy is a pick and mix of vacant platitudes, unitardyral promisements that he could have proclaimd at home, and hazardous pretreatnts – rushing to give away the Chagos islands and paying for the privilege, an ill-appraised suspension of send out licences to Israel, damaging our defence and security industry and flunking to set out a roadmap for spending 2.5% GDP on defence in a world that is becoming yet more hazardous.
I hope the prime minister is up to the very authentic and solemn disputes posed to our security and prosperity.
In response, Starmer shelp that Badenoch’s decision to aprohibitdon the traverse-party consensus on reducing carbon emissions and the drive to net zero “shows fair how far the party opposite has descfinishen”. He shelp:
On Cop … I have to say, it is a shame that what engaged to be a traverse-party publish not so many years ago … when Cop was in Scotland, there was a authentic unity atraverse the hoengage about the presentance of tackling one of those central publishs of our time.
I skinnyk the fact that she has now getn the position she has of strikeing the very idea of setting centers shows fair how far the party opposite has descfinishen.
On an publish appreciate this, I was self-presentant that under some of her predecessors we had that unity. It’s a shame it’s now been lost becaengage of the position adselected by the opposition.
Badenoch depicts herself as a “net zero sceptic” and in a recent interwatch she adviseed that an alterion strategy might be a better solution to the climate crisis than fair cgo ining on cutting carbon emissions.
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Giving evidence to the Covid inquiry, the createer health secretary shelp part of his role was to “shield” the NHS from “people being difficult in Number 10”. He shelp:
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Wiskinny the running of the NHS, we were defended in a way becaengage of the independence of the NHS.
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And therefore the people being difficult for Number 10, part of my job was to provide a shield from that.
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And I comprehend that I ruffled some feathers in doing so, but my job was, mockingassociate, also to defend the NHS from some of that.
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Hancock tgreater the inquiry that intrudence from Number 10 caengaged “incredible difficulties” with think abouts to testing people for Covid.
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Hancock is giving evidence as part of the inquiry’s third module dispenseigation, cgo ining on the impact of the pandemic on the NHS.
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As PA tells, Hancock was asked by inquiry guide Jacqueline Carey about his witness statements which adviseed “inappropriate political intrudence from Number 10”, and whether that intrudence applied to the scope of these hearings. He replied:
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Well, of course some of it did. For instance, the biggest intrudence that caengaged difficulties was wiskinny testing, where some of the political assignees in Number 10 caengaged incredible difficulties.
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Hancock was almost bravely referring to Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser at the times. Earlier hearings have proviced copious evidence shoprosperg that relations between Hancock and Cummings were dire.
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Earlier today Hancock also claimed that createer first minister of Scotland, Nicola Stadviseon, caengaged “all sorts of difficulties” as the pandemic unfgreatered. (See 10.26am.)
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Keir Starmer shelp that he condemned the jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong by the Chinese authorities during his statement in the Commons.
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He was disputed to engage the word condemn after Conservative MPs adviseed that he was hesitant to sound too critical of China on this publish.
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In her response to Starmer’s uncovering statement, Kemi Badenoch shelp that the activists were sentenced the day after Starmer held talks with Xi Jinping, the Chinese pdwellnt, at the G20 summit. She shelp she had not heard him condemn the sentences at the time, and she disputed him so do so “unequivocassociate”.
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In response, Starmer shelp “Minister West” (Catherine West, the minister for the Indo-Pacific” made a statement on this and he shelp he was satisfied “to repeat and state her position”.
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Later Iain Duncan-Smith, one of the most China-criticial Tories and a createer party guideer, asked Starmer to be more unambiguous. Starmer replied:
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I shelp I condemned it a moment ago, and I’m satisfied to say so. I fair did and I will say it aget.
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It is meaningful that where we have these meaningful contrastences, particularly on publishs of human rights, that we have frank, uncover talkions about them and that is why these matters have been liftd repeatedly.
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Keir Starmer’s statement to MPs about the G20 and Cop29 summits bigly summoccurd announcments made while he was at those events. Kemi Badenoch, the novel Conservative guideer, reacted. Normassociate exalters appreciate this are relatively gentle, becaengage the main parties normally widely concur on foreign policy publishs, but Badenoch was very critical of Starmer’s foreign policy positions, particularly on climate, and Starmer condemned her for shattering what had been a traverse-party consensus on reducing emissions.
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Referring to Cop29, Badenoch shelp:
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Cop has not yet endd, so we do not comprehend what the final impact on the UK will be. But we do comprehend the prime minister’s rush to a further cut in our emissions [a reference to this proclaimment] is yet another example of politicians putting unwiseinutive term accessibleity above extfinished term schedulening.
n
When will he unveil the schedules to accomplish this novel center?
n
Where this rulement does the right skinnyg, we will back it. Yet, where it puts politics before people and press frees before pragmaticity, we will hgreater them to account.
n
It is time for politicians to alert the truth, and it is time the prime minister provided some substance to back this costly rhetoric.
n
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Badenoch pointed out that, by joining the G20 summit in Brazil, Starmer was out of London for the farmers’ protests. And she ended:
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The prime minister’s foreign policy is a pick and mix of vacant platitudes, unitardyral promisements that he could have proclaimd at home, and hazardous pretreatnts – rushing to give away the Chagos islands and paying for the privilege, an ill-appraised suspension of send out licences to Israel, damaging our defence and security industry and flunking to set out a roadmap for spending 2.5% GDP on defence in a world that is becoming yet more hazardous.
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I hope the prime minister is up to the very authentic and solemn disputes posed to our security and prosperity.
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In response, Starmer shelp that Badenoch’s decision to aprohibitdon the traverse-party consensus on reducing carbon emissions and the drive to net zero “shows fair how far the party opposite has descfinishen”. He shelp:
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On Cop … I have to say, it is a shame that what engaged to be a traverse-party publish not so many years ago … when Cop was in Scotland, there was a authentic unity atraverse the hoengage about the presentance of tackling one of those central publishs of our time.
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I skinnyk the fact that she has now getn the position she has of strikeing the very idea of setting centers shows fair how far the party opposite has descfinishen.
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On an publish appreciate this, I was self-presentant that under some of her predecessors we had that unity. It’s a shame it’s now been lost becaengage of the position adselected by the opposition.
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Badenoch depicts herself as a “net zero sceptic” and in a recent interwatch she adviseed that an alterion strategy might be a better solution to the climate crisis than fair cgo ining on cutting carbon emissions.
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The createer health secretary is answering asks on the NHS response to the pandemic
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Steve Reed, the environment secretary, has proclaimd a schedule which he shelp would produce farming more profitable.
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In his first speech since the thousands of farmers held a mass rassociate in Westminster on Tuesday to protest about the rulement’s schedules to lengthen inheritance tax to farms, he proclaimd a novel, farmer-led 25-year roadmap for the sector.
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He also shelp that, instead of tfeebleing inheritance tax, he would produce alters to the provide chain to asbrave farmers get a fair price for their produce.
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Recent research has shown that farmers get about 1p from the price of a block of cheese or a loaf of bread in the supertaget, and farmers produce about a 0.5% return on their dispensements.
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Speaking at the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) conference, Reed shelp:
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I’m not setd to let so many farmers defend toiling so challenging for so little. We necessitate to toil together to concur what we want British farming to see appreciate in 25 years time. That uncomfervents a schedule to transition farming to novel models that are more environmenloftyy but also more financiassociate preserveable for the extfinished term.
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We will do this by enbiging a 25-year farming roadmap. This will be the most forward seeing schedule for farming in our country’s history, with a cgo in on making farming and food production more profitable in the decades to come.
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It will not alert farmers what to do. It will be farmer led so they can alert the rulement what they necessitate to produce the success of this vital transition.
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Referring to the inheritance tax row, Reed went on:
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One of the skinnygs farmers were alerting me last Tuesday is how little profit they produce. How little money for all the challenging toil they put into producing the food for the rest of us to finishelight.
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The answer to that isn’t to alert farmers they’re not in it for the money, as I’ve heard fair last week.
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The answer is to produce farming more profitable. The rulement will do accurately that. We will produce the provide chain fairer so food producers and growers are not forced to hug unfair shrinks.
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Reed endd:
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I heard the anguish of the countryside on the streets of London earlier this week. We may not concur over the inheritance tax alters, but this rulement is resettled to engage to agricultural Britain and end its extfinished degrade.
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The CLA conference is the where Reed tgreater farmers last year, when he as shadow environment secretary, that Labour was not going to lengthen inheritance tax to farms.
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Victoria Vyvyan, pdwellnt of the CLA, has accengaged the rulement of “taxing us out of existence” and “embroiling” agricultural people in a “unwise row about numbers”.
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Today, holdressing Reed before he gave his speech, she shelp:
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Secretary of state, you necessitate to act. Last year, I asked you, were you to be elected, could we in this room count on you to go into bat for us at cabinet? And you shelp yes, and that’s what I want to see from you.
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This isn’t about party politics. It’s not about personal party alignment. This is about the fact that you are the one who’s sitting there at the cabinet, recontransienting us, and you have to forget any contrastences that we might have, and you have to recall that you are our voice at the heart of rulement.
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We will carry on telling tributes to John Prescott as the day goes on, but there is other novels happening today too and soon I will switch to the Covid inquiry, where Matt Hancock, the createer health secretary, is giving evidence from 10am. He has already given evidence to the inquiry before, but the inquiry is now on module 3, cgo ining in particular on the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and Hancock will be talking about that.
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We have also got John Healey, the defence secretary, giving evidence to the Commons defence promisetee from 10.30am this morning.
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Peter Mandelson was one of many people in the Labour party who feuded with John Prescott at various times when they were in rulement, and at one memorable pboilingocall in the summer of 1997 Prescott appraised him to a crab. Today, speaking on Sky News, Mandelson percreateed down the lengthen of their disconcurments, and pointed out that Prescott had helped his application to become Labour’s communications straightforwardor in 1985 – the job that turned out to be the beginpad for Mandelson’s nurtureer.
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Mandelson shelp it was wrong to say Prescott was not New Labour.
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Some people say sometimes that he wasn’t New Labour. But that’s not real. He was New Labour. He was one very vital part of New Labour. He basicassociate kept us anchored in our toiling class roots, our trade union history. And he was the bridge, essentiassociate, between that and the up-to-dateisers in the Labour party, Tony, Gordon, me and the others. And he always wanted that project to toil. It’s not as if he was standing outside it and peering in. He was on the inside and making it toil. He was, in many esteems, the cement that kept New Labour together.
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Asked what he was appreciate to toil with, Mandelson replied:
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He was absolutely impossible. When I say he was sort of brave, he was. When I say he was promised, he was. When I say he was resettled, he was. He was always resettled to get his own way on any particular publish at any given moment. Right up until the point he’d say, ‘OK, I’ll do this for you. You do this for me. As extfinished as you cover this off I’ll happily go aextfinished with it.’
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So he was a negotiator. He was a trade union negotiator. He was a broker. But at the end of the day he wanted it to toil and the way in which he made it toil was by being incredibly difficult for days on end and then finassociate sealing it, making toil, concuring it and off we went.
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Mandelson also recalled a surpelevate conversation earlier this year he had with Prescott.
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I was at home on a Sunday morning and the phone went and then suddenly I put it on and it was the face of John Prescott on my phone FaceTiming me from Hull. I uncomfervent, no progressd cautioning. No how do you do. It was, ‘Hello, is that you?’ ‘Yes John it is me. What do you want?’
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He shelp ‘I fair want to say that I comprehend it was difficult and we were bloody terrible to you at times and I was, but actuassociate you did excellent and I want to forgive you.’ What am I being forgiven for here? It was fair, ‘I want to forgive you becaengage you did excellent. And I comprehend it wasn’t effortless at times and I comprehend it was raw and I comprehend I didn’t help but now I comprehfinish.’ And I shelp, ‘John that’s very comfervent of you. How do you suddenly comprehfinish this?’ He shelp, ‘Oh well somebody gave me this book of yours. I didn’t read it before. It seeed very unkeen. But I’ve seeed at it, I’ve dipped into it and I’ve seen what you went thraw … I experience rather sorry for you actuassociate. And anyway, thanks very much.’
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It was a scant minutes more … but that was it. That was the last time I spoke to him.
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Angela Rayner is normally appraised to John Prescott. They were both brawt up toiling class, became Labour MPs after toiling in the trade union shiftment and have been normally patronised or demonised by Tories and the media, partly on the grounds of class snobbery. And both ended up deputy PM.
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Here is her tribute to Prescott.
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Thraw his half a century of accessible service and a decade as deputy prime minister, John Prescott was driven by his Labour appreciates to serve toiling people.
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Fiercely self-presentant of his toiling class and trade union roots, he never lost sight of who he came into politics to serve. He engaged the chance he was given to alter the inhabits of millions of toiling people.
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A enormous of the labour shiftment and promised friend, he will be recalled with huge fondness by all those who knovel him.
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John was not only a Labour legend but an inspiration to me, and always so benevolent with his time and help.
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We will miss him wonderfully. Our thoughts and prayers are with Pauline, David, Johnathan and the rest of the family.
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Here is the brimming statement from John Prescott’s family announcing his death. Prescott was living with Alzheimer’s in his final years and his family have asked wellwanters minded to send fdrops to give to Alzheimer’s Research UK instead.
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They say:
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We are meaningfully unelateddened to advise you that our becherishd husprohibitd, overweighther and magnificentoverweighther, John Prescott, passed away peacebrimmingy yesterday at the age of 86.
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He did so surrounded by the cherish of his family and the jazz music of Marian Montgomery.
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John spent his life trying to better the inhabits of others, battling for social fairice and defending the environment, doing so from his time as a deferer on the cruise liners to becoming Britain’s extfinishedest serving deputy prime minister.
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John dtimely cherishd his home of Hull and recontransienting its people in parliament for 40 years was his wonderfulest honour. We would appreciate to thank the amazing NHS doctors and nurses who nurtured for him after his stroke in 2019 and the promiseted staff at the nurture home where he passed away after latterly living with Alzheimer’s.
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In lieu of fdrops and if you want to do so, you can give to Alzheimer’s Research UK.
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As you can envision, our family necessitates to process our grief so we esteembrimmingy ask time and space to lament in braveial. Thank you.
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Good morning. I’m Andrew Sparrow, taking over from Caroline Davies.
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The createer prime minister Gordon Brown has fair been on the Today programme paying tribute to John Prescott. He shelp:
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John was a friend of mine, he was a colleague, but when you skinnyk of him, he was a colossus, he was a titan of the Labour shiftment.
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John Lennon talked about toiling class hero. It’s difficult to fit that term, but I skinnyk John would appreciate that.
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You’ve got to see at his accomplishments. He was probably the first rulement minister to see the presentance of the environment. Kyoto, that environmental treaty in 1997, you’ve got to attribute that to John’s challenging toil with Al Gore.
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Then he saw the presentance, and he was a guide of regional policy. So the fact we have devolution and mayors owes a wonderful deal to what John was skinnyking right thrawout the 1980s and 90s when I was toiling with him.
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And then we mustn’t forget that one of the wonderful accomplishments of John as environment secretary was the repair and betterment of housing, 1.5m hoengages which would not have been repaired without John’s determination that the social housing stock had to be reup-to-dateised.
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So you’ve got to see at the pragmatic accomplishments of someone who possibly surpelevated himself by the way that he regulated to become deputy prime minister, but actuassociate made a huge contrastence.
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Labour createer prime minister Sir Tony Blair shelp he was “dehugeated” by the death of Lord Prescott, and depictd his deputy as “one of the most talented people I ever come atraverseed in politics”.
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Blair shelp:
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Although we all knovel that the end was approaching and was inevitable, I am dehugeated by John’s passing. He was one of the most talented people I ever come atraverseed in politics; one of the most promiseted and promised; and definitely the most atypical.
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There was noskinnyg about John which fitted conservative wisdom. He was from self-presentant traditional toiling class stock yet understood instinctively and finishly the aspirations of that class and their desire to better themselves.
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He was liberal and uncover-minded, yet instantly inuncover-minded of any overly liberal middle class disthink aboutal of the misery suffered by necessitatey inner city communities from crime and drug mistreatment. He could talk in the lacklusterest and sometimes bluest language, but it hideed a first rate inalertect which uncomferventt he thought as meaningfully about publishs as much as he nurtured about them.
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It is no exaggeration to say the Labour Party could never have won three consecutive brimming terms without John. He was a ordering presence. He recontransiented the prosperg of the party which was not New Labour, but he did it in a way which never reduced the effectiveness of our pguide and indeed lengthened it, wideening the base of our help.
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He had exceptional accomplishments: he revived many of Britain’s inner cities, was reliable for the refurbishment of thousands of council homes, the revival of British shipping, finishd the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, set uped the Coalfield Communities Trust to breathe life back into villages and towns affected by the clobrave of mines; and was Britain’s guide negotiator for the Kyoto climate treaty, the world’s first try to concur a global response to climate alter.
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British prime minister Keir Starmer says he is “meaningfully unelateddened” to hear that Prescott has died, and called him a “real enormous of Labour”.
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In a statement on X, he shelp, “I am meaningfully unelateddened to hear of the death of John Prescott. John was a real enormous of the Labour shiftment. On behalf of the Labour Party, I send my condolences to Pauline and his family, to the city of Hull, and to all those who knovel and cherishd him. May he rest in peace.”
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Former US vice-pdwellnt Al Gore, who toiled with John Prescott on the Kyoto protocol climate alter concurment in 1997, shelp he had “never toiled with anyone in politics – on my side of the pond or his – quite appreciate John Prescott”.
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He haveed an inherent ability to connect with people about the publishs that mattered to them – a talent that others spend years studying and cultivating, but that was second nature to him.
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He fought appreciate hell to debate the Kyoto Protocol and was an unwavering champion of climate action for decades to come. I’m forever appreciative to John for that promisement to solving the climate crisis and will miss him as a dear friend.”
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Over a parliamentary nurtureer spanning more than half a century, Prescott served for 10 years as deputy prime minister after Labour’s 1997 ambiguous election landslide.
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At times unwiseinutive-tempered, he once famously punched a protester who threw an egg at him during an election campaign visit to north Wales in 2001.
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But during much of his time in office, he acted as a mediator in the normally turbulent relationship between Tony Blair and his chancellor, Gordon Brown.
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He also oversaw the environment, carry and the regions, a alert that integrated helping to debate the international Kyoto protocol on climate alter.
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Prescott was a promised helper of Blair in office but subsequently critical of parts of New Labour’s legacy, denouncing Britain’s take partment in the Iraq war.
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He also powerfilledy defended Jeremy Corbyn during his time as party guideer in the face of fierce criticism.
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In their statement, Prescott’s family shelp that recontransienting Hull for 40 years in parliament was the createer deputy PM’s “wonderfulest honour”.
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The statement reads, in part:
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John spent his life trying to better the inhabits of others, battling for social fairice and defending the environment, doing so from his time as a deferer on the cruise liners to becoming Britain’s extfinishedest serving deputy prime minister.
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John dtimely cherishd his home of Hull and recontransienting its people in parliament for 40 years was his wonderfulest honour. We would appreciate to thank the amazing NHS doctors and nurses who nurtured for him after his stroke in 2019 and the promiseted staff at the nurture home where he passed away after latterly living with Alzheimer’s.
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In lieu of fdrops and if you want to do so, you can give to Alzheimer’s Research UK.
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As you can envision, our family necessitates to process our grief so we esteembrimmingy ask time and space to lament in braveial. Thank you.”
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The createer British deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86, his family proclaimd on Thursday morning.
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His family shelp he had “spent his life trying to better the inhabits of others, battling for social fairice and defending the environment”.
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“We are meaningfully unelateddened to advise you that our becherishd husprohibitd, overweighther and magnificentoverweighther, John Prescott, passed away peacebrimmingy yesterday at the age of 86,” they shelp.
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“He did so surrounded by the cherish of his family and the jazz music of Marian Montgomery.
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Prescott served in Parliament for 40 years, eventuassociate becoming deputy prime minister under Tony Blair.
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After leaving office aextfinished with Blair in 2007, he became increasingly critical of the New Labour legacy, denouncing Britain’s take partment in the Iraq War.
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Key events
John Healey, the defence secretary, has been giving evidence to the Commons defence promisetee this morning. But he would validate that Ukraine has commenceed firing Storm Shadow missiles provided by Britain at Russia. Asked to validate these tells, Healey shelp:
I won’t be drawn on the opereasonable details of the struggle. It dangers both opereasonable security and in the end the only one that advantages from such a accessible argue is Pdwellnt Putin.
Healey also shelp this was a “solemn moment” for Ukraine and he shelp battle lines were now “less firm than at any time since the timely days of the brimming scale Russian trespass”.
The Guardian columnist Martin Kettle has sent me this anecdote, which he depicts as his favourite memory of the tardy John Prescott. Martin says:
I was at a Labour conference in Bdeficiencypool in the 90s and I bumped into him back stage in the press room and he shelp: “Is your fella Steve Bell here?” I shelp, yes, Steve was. “Well can you present me? He always draws me as Tony’s dog, and I’m not a fuckin’ dog.” Steve was sitting quite cforfeitby, so I worriedly made the introductions as the two big guys met up. Wiskinny a scant seconds, Prescott’s dangerening manner fadeed and he and Steve were in stitches about some joke or other. Then, as Prescott was leaving he turned and squared up to Steve and shelp. “No dogs, OK?”
Of course it made absolutely no contrastence wdisappreciatever, and Steve kept on draprosperg him as a dog.
Hancock alerts Covid inquiry intrudence from No 10 caengaged ‘incredible difficulties’ with testing programme
Matt Hancock has tgreater how he “ruffled some feathers” defending the NHS from political “intrudence” during the Covid pandemic, PA Media tells.
Giving evidence to the Covid inquiry, the createer health secretary shelp part of his role was to “shield” the NHS from “people being difficult in Number 10”. He shelp:
Wiskinny the running of the NHS, we were defended in a way becaengage of the independence of the NHS.
And therefore the people being difficult for Number 10, part of my job was to provide a shield from that.
And I comprehend that I ruffled some feathers in doing so, but my job was, mockingassociate, also to defend the NHS from some of that.
Hancock tgreater the inquiry that intrudence from Number 10 caengaged “incredible difficulties” with think abouts to testing people for Covid.
Hancock is giving evidence as part of the inquiry’s third module dispenseigation, cgo ining on the impact of the pandemic on the NHS.
As PA tells, Hancock was asked by inquiry guide Jacqueline Carey about his witness statements which adviseed “inappropriate political intrudence from Number 10”, and whether that intrudence applied to the scope of these hearings. He replied:
Well, of course some of it did. For instance, the biggest intrudence that caengaged difficulties was wiskinny testing, where some of the political assignees in Number 10 caengaged incredible difficulties.
Hancock was almost bravely referring to Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser at the times. Earlier hearings have proviced copious evidence shoprosperg that relations between Hancock and Cummings were dire.
Earlier today Hancock also claimed that createer first minister of Scotland, Nicola Stadviseon, caengaged “all sorts of difficulties” as the pandemic unfgreatered. (See 10.26am.)
Starmer alerts MPs he condemns jailing of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong
Keir Starmer shelp that he condemned the jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong by the Chinese authorities during his statement in the Commons.
He was disputed to engage the word condemn after Conservative MPs adviseed that he was hesitant to sound too critical of China on this publish.
In her response to Starmer’s uncovering statement, Kemi Badenoch shelp that the activists were sentenced the day after Starmer held talks with Xi Jinping, the Chinese pdwellnt, at the G20 summit. She shelp she had not heard him condemn the sentences at the time, and she disputed him so do so “unequivocassociate”.
In response, Starmer shelp “Minister West” (Catherine West, the minister for the Indo-Pacific” made a statement on this and he shelp he was satisfied “to repeat and state her position”.
Later Iain Duncan-Smith, one of the most China-criticial Tories and a createer party guideer, asked Starmer to be more unambiguous. Starmer replied:
I shelp I condemned it a moment ago, and I’m satisfied to say so. I fair did and I will say it aget.
It is meaningful that where we have these meaningful contrastences, particularly on publishs of human rights, that we have frank, uncover talkions about them and that is why these matters have been liftd repeatedly.
Here are two more tribute to John Prescott.
From the createer Labour guideer Neil Kinnock
John Prescott was an intriguing mixture of ferocity and charm who enticeed affection, esteem and, sometimes, outrage.
He was truly a political innovator in policies ranging from united carry to combating climate alter and regional democratic and economic enbigment to European co-operation.
Viloftyy, he was also a very pragmatic MP and minister who continuassociate sought the best way to ‘get skinnygs done’ whether that uncomferventt transporting separatent people together or insisting on details of carry outation. This central inprecious quality made him an vital figure in 10 years as deputy prime minister.
From John Major, the createer Conservative prime minister
[Prescott] was an vital part of Labour’s electoral success in the 1990s and – as deputy prime minister – persistd to say what he thought in unmistakable terms. He never lost sight of the caengages that first driven him into politics, and remained a fervent apvalidate for all he thinkd – even if that uncomferventt the odd tussle with colleagues aextfinished the way.
Although a political opponent, I much esteemd him as a man who never betrayed his core instincts. He was, in essence, a meaningful down authentic politician. The accessible saw that – and esteemed him for it.
In his response to Kemi Badenoch in the Commons (see 11.27am), Keir Starmer also criticised her adviseion that he should not have joined the G20 in Brazil. Badenoch did not quite say he should have stayed at home, but she shelp being at the G20 was probably “a lot easier” than being in London when ‘“challenging-toiling farmers were protesting outside the Downing Street gates at his uncomfervent family farm tax”.
Referring to her comments, Starmer shelp:
[Badenoch] references me being in Rio when the farmers were protested.
G20 is the guideing economies of the world, getting together to talk asks of normal publishs on the economy and on security.
If her implication is that the UK should not be there at guideer level, that we should join Putin in eludeing that greeting, if that’s the position of her party, then she should say so.
Starmer condemns Badenoch for aprohibitdoning traverse-party consensus on climate crisis policy
Keir Starmer’s statement to MPs about the G20 and Cop29 summits bigly summoccurd announcments made while he was at those events. Kemi Badenoch, the novel Conservative guideer, reacted. Normassociate exalters appreciate this are relatively gentle, becaengage the main parties normally widely concur on foreign policy publishs, but Badenoch was very critical of Starmer’s foreign policy positions, particularly on climate, and Starmer condemned her for shattering what had been a traverse-party consensus on reducing emissions.
Referring to Cop29, Badenoch shelp:
Cop has not yet endd, so we do not comprehend what the final impact on the UK will be. But we do comprehend the prime minister’s rush to a further cut in our emissions [a reference to this proclaimment] is yet another example of politicians putting unwiseinutive term accessibleity above extfinished term schedulening.
When will he unveil the schedules to accomplish this novel center?
Where this rulement does the right skinnyg, we will back it. Yet, where it puts politics before people and press frees before pragmaticity, we will hgreater them to account.
It is time for politicians to alert the truth, and it is time the prime minister provided some substance to back this costly rhetoric.
Badenoch pointed out that, by joining the G20 summit in Brazil, Starmer was out of London for the farmers’ protests. And she ended:
The prime minister’s foreign policy is a pick and mix of vacant platitudes, unitardyral promisements that he could have proclaimd at home, and hazardous pretreatnts – rushing to give away the Chagos islands and paying for the privilege, an ill-appraised suspension of send out licences to Israel, damaging our defence and security industry and flunking to set out a roadmap for spending 2.5% GDP on defence in a world that is becoming yet more hazardous.
I hope the prime minister is up to the very authentic and solemn disputes posed to our security and prosperity.
In response, Starmer shelp that Badenoch’s decision to aprohibitdon the traverse-party consensus on reducing carbon emissions and the drive to net zero “shows fair how far the party opposite has descfinishen”. He shelp:
On Cop … I have to say, it is a shame that what engaged to be a traverse-party publish not so many years ago … when Cop was in Scotland, there was a authentic unity atraverse the hoengage about the presentance of tackling one of those central publishs of our time.
I skinnyk the fact that she has now getn the position she has of strikeing the very idea of setting centers shows fair how far the party opposite has descfinishen.
On an publish appreciate this, I was self-presentant that under some of her predecessors we had that unity. It’s a shame it’s now been lost becaengage of the position adselected by the opposition.
Badenoch depicts herself as a “net zero sceptic” and in a recent interwatch she adviseed that an alterion strategy might be a better solution to the climate crisis than fair cgo ining on cutting carbon emissions.
Watch inhabit feed of Matt Hancock giving evidence to the Covid inquiry
The createer health secretary is answering asks on the NHS response to the pandemic
Keir Starmer is in the Commons where he has made a statement to MPs on the two summits he has joined recently, the G20 and Cop29.
But he commenceed with a tribute to John Prescott, calling him “a real enormous of the Labour shiftment”. He went on:
John accomplishd that unfrequent skinnyg – he alterd people’s inhabits, and he set the path for us all to chase … He did it all in his own way, with humour, with pride, passion and total conviction. He truly was a one off.
Starmer also shelp that there would be brimming tributes to Prescott in the Commons on another occasion.
Steve Reed says rulement wants to produce farming ‘more profitable’
Helena Horton
Steve Reed, the environment secretary, has proclaimd a schedule which he shelp would produce farming more profitable.
In his first speech since the thousands of farmers held a mass rassociate in Westminster on Tuesday to protest about the rulement’s schedules to lengthen inheritance tax to farms, he proclaimd a novel, farmer-led 25-year roadmap for the sector.
He also shelp that, instead of tfeebleing inheritance tax, he would produce alters to the provide chain to asbrave farmers get a fair price for their produce.
Recent research has shown that farmers get about 1p from the price of a block of cheese or a loaf of bread in the supertaget, and farmers produce about a 0.5% return on their dispensements.
Speaking at the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) conference, Reed shelp:
I’m not setd to let so many farmers defend toiling so challenging for so little. We necessitate to toil together to concur what we want British farming to see appreciate in 25 years time. That uncomfervents a schedule to transition farming to novel models that are more environmenloftyy but also more financiassociate preserveable for the extfinished term.
We will do this by enbiging a 25-year farming roadmap. This will be the most forward seeing schedule for farming in our country’s history, with a cgo in on making farming and food production more profitable in the decades to come.
It will not alert farmers what to do. It will be farmer led so they can alert the rulement what they necessitate to produce the success of this vital transition.
Referring to the inheritance tax row, Reed went on:
One of the skinnygs farmers were alerting me last Tuesday is how little profit they produce. How little money for all the challenging toil they put into producing the food for the rest of us to finishelight.
The answer to that isn’t to alert farmers they’re not in it for the money, as I’ve heard fair last week.
The answer is to produce farming more profitable. The rulement will do accurately that. We will produce the provide chain fairer so food producers and growers are not forced to hug unfair shrinks.
Reed endd:
I heard the anguish of the countryside on the streets of London earlier this week. We may not concur over the inheritance tax alters, but this rulement is resettled to engage to agricultural Britain and end its extfinished degrade.
The CLA conference is the where Reed tgreater farmers last year, when he as shadow environment secretary, that Labour was not going to lengthen inheritance tax to farms.
Victoria Vyvyan, pdwellnt of the CLA, has accengaged the rulement of “taxing us out of existence” and “embroiling” agricultural people in a “unwise row about numbers”.
Today, holdressing Reed before he gave his speech, she shelp:
Secretary of state, you necessitate to act. Last year, I asked you, were you to be elected, could we in this room count on you to go into bat for us at cabinet? And you shelp yes, and that’s what I want to see from you.
This isn’t about party politics. It’s not about personal party alignment. This is about the fact that you are the one who’s sitting there at the cabinet, recontransienting us, and you have to forget any contrastences that we might have, and you have to recall that you are our voice at the heart of rulement.
Jacqueline Carey KC, guide guide for the inquiry, asks about a minute of a greeting he had with health ministers from the dgrowd rulements. She shows an pull out on screen.
The minutes refer to Jeane Freeman (JF), health minister in the Scottish rulement, asking for a reset in the relationship between the English and Scottish administrations.
Carey asks if that connectd to anyskinnyg connectd to the theme of module 3 – the impact of Covid on the NHS.
Hancock says that was a reference to Nicola Stadviseon, the Scottish first minister, “causing all sorts of difficulties”. He says that is not relevant to this module.
Matt Hancock, the createer health secretary, has now commenceed his evidence to the Covid inquiry.
Asked if he thought the “Stay at home, defend the NHS, save inhabits” messaging struck the right stability, Hancock says he skinnyks it did.
Q: Do you skinnyk everyskinnyg possible was done to defend healthnurture toilers defended?
Hancock says:
It was evidently inanxiously difficult to defend healthnurture toilers as defended as possible, becaengage effectively the wards of the NHS became the front line in this lethal battle.
Q: Do you skinnyk visiting reinanxiousions, and reinanxiousions on people being with cherishd ones when they were dying, were too inanxious?
Hancock says:
We were balancing incredibly difficult ponderations on both sides. I skinnyk, on stability, we got those widely right atraverse the pandemic. But I entidepend comprehfinish and experience very, very strong arguments on both sides.
But Hancock says he skinnyks the guidance for funerals was applied in a inanxioengager way than had been intended.
Q: Do you hug that going into the pandemic with a low number of intensive nurture beds and high bed occupancy put the system under more strain?
Of course, says Hancock.
Q: Do you skinnyk now that the decision to defer all non advisent elective nurture was the right one?
Yes, says Hancock.
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