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Sunak says spending billions more on defence won’t stop tax cuts | Labour accused of failing to keep Britain safe ‘in a dangerous world’ | Rwanda flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly | …as Starmer ally suggests Labour could keep policy if successful
A straw in the wind, perhaps, that the Prime Minister may yet be considering going to the country over the summer.
How does the Parliament of a country one-fifth of whose territory has been occupied by Russia end up voting for a Russian-style law to attack independent civil society?
We should build an evidence-based early years policy that puts cash back in parents’ pockets so they can choose how best to care for their children.
We created Operation Viper to tackle County Lines, and this has made over 200 arrests and closed 45 per cent of the County Lines in Dorset.
Labour’s embattled Deputy Leader was relieved to find herself taking part in a pantomime.
The Deputy Prime Minister filled in for Rishi Sunak whilst he is in Germany.
The EU will not disappear: it will always be our closest and largest trading partner, so we will always have to negotiate with it. The easiest way of negotiating with the EU is as a leader from within rather than as a supplicant from outside.
Simon Harris seems determined to improve the mood music, talking up the need for strong Anglo-Irish relations and refocusing Northern Irish policy on maintaining the peace and building prosperity.
Sunak ‘buys off Tory defence hawks’ with military budget boost to 2.5 per cent | Channel migrant deaths show why Rwanda bill is needed, he says | Hunt’s pre-election tax cuts plan ‘could be ruined’ by high borrowing | Frank Field, former Labour minister and anti-poverty campaigner, dies aged 81
Spoiler alert: the Rwanda policy will not stop the boats. I know this. You know this. One hopes Rishi Sunak knows this. The truth is that even if flights take off, the crossings will continue, and get worse under Labour, whether they cancel the scheme or not.
If the Rwanda scheme succeeds, it will be a personal vindication for Sunak. But it will also show that Parliament works. If not, however unfairly, it will be the Government voters blame for the failure.
Rather than stay in the Freedom Caucus’ cage, Mike Johnson has used it to govern. Instead of simply accepting the lot of a frozen House, he has assembled those majorities by reaching across the aisle to Democrats.
The harsh reality is that we cannot let Putin win in Ukraine or it won’t stop there. Xi is already threatening Taiwan, and watches the West’s response.