Terror response: Cameron threatens to bomb ISIS in Syria… “RAF raids on Islamic State could be extended to its Syrian strongholds, David Cameron suggested yesterday. The Prime Minister said ‘military solutions’ must form part of the response to IS in the wake of the Tunisian beach massacre. ‘We do need to crush IS in Iraq […]
Minister who lost brother in Bali bombing takes charge of Tunisia response “A minister who once criticised the Foreign Office over its response to a terrorist attack in Bali that killed his brother is leading the challenge to identify British victims of the Tunisia atrocity. Tobias Ellwood, a minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, […]
Tunisia 1) Fallon: We won’t cower or compromise our freedoms ‘The terrorists who carried out these cowardly attacks want us to cower in the face of their hideous violence. To change how we live our lives. To compromise our values of freedom, tolerance and the rule of law. However hard it may be with feelings […]
Leaked note says Cameron would warn that leaving the EU would be “risky”… “David Cameron has set himself the “firm aim” of keeping Britain in the European Union after running a referendum campaign that will focus on the risky consequences of a British exit, according to a leaked document of the prime minister’s negotiations. In […]
EU 1) Cameron concedes his renegotiation is ‘unlikely’ to secure treaty change ‘The Prime Minister – who will outline Britain’s demands for reform at a Brussels summit tonight – has consistently maintained that changes to the treaties which underpin the EU are needed in order to push through his proposals – including a clamp down […]
Lawson urges Osborne to cut top rate to 40p “Former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson last night urged George Osborne to cut the top income tax rate to 40p in next month’s Budget, amid signs the Treasury is considering such a move…Lord Lawson, a confidant of the chancellor, told the Financial Times: ‘I would strongly support […]
Duncan Smith gets tough on Brown’s tax credits “Ministers last night threatened to get tough with firms paying ‘poverty wages’, as they prepared for a Budget assault on Britain’s £30billion tax credits bill. Iain Duncan Smith told MPs that firms ‘should pay higher salaries’, rather than relying on the taxpayer to top up their employees’ […]
Welfare 1) Cameron calls time on Labour’s “benefits merry-go-round” “In a major speech, the Prime Minister will say a ‘culture of complacency’ in our national life has led people to accept a huge number of long-term unemployed. He will signal that, free from the shackles of Coalition government, he will unleash a welfare revolution designed […]
Osborne and Duncan Smith agree benefit cuts “George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith have agreed a plan to slash spending on benefits by £12bn a year — defying claims that the government’s welfare reforms would be watered down. In an article for The Sunday Times, the chancellor and the work and pensions secretary today pledge […]
EU 1) Cameron leaning toward EU poll in autumn of 2016… “The referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union is likely to be held in October next year, Cabinet sources have revealed. Downing Street is looking at a date in the autumn for the crunch vote, with October the most likely. The Tory manifesto […]
Europe 1) Prime Minister faces showdown over votes for 16 year olds “Sixteen and seventeen year olds are ‘almost certain’ to get to vote in the EU referendum, under plans being hatched by peers to defeat David Cameron. The Conservatives oppose letting younger teenagers vote, as they did in the referendum on Scottish independence last year, saying […]
Boris caught on camera telling cabbie to ‘f**k off and die’ ‘Motor-mouth MP Boris Johnson bawls at a cabbie to “f**k off and die” in a late night tirade caught on camera. Boris bit back from his bicycle after a passing driver apparently accused him of failing to protect the city’s famous black cab industry. […]
Labour rescues Cameron from Tory rebellion on Europe “David Cameron was forced to rely on Labour to avoid the first humiliating government defeat of the parliament last night. Some 27 Tory rebels voted to reinstate ‘purdah’, the ban on government taking sides during the run-up to the referendum on whether or not to remain in the […]
EU 1) Cameron backs down on purdah “David Cameron is to make a series of concessions to Tory Eurosceptics in a bid to head off a rebellion on his plans for an EU referendum, MailOnline has learned. The Prime Minister is to back down on plans to hold the vote on the same day as […]
Cameron claims Human Rights Act has devalued the Magna Carta… “The legacy of Magna Carta has been ‘devalued’ by Labour’s Human Rights Act, David Cameron will say today as Britain commemorates its 800th anniversary. The Prime Minister will say the 13th century charter is the foundation document for human rights worldwide, but the meaning of […]