ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
Sunak to strip GPs of right to sign people off sick | MPs and peers set to vote overnight to get Rwanda Bill through | Tory activists call for ‘disgusting’ MP Menzies to face police probe | Dowden ‘urges Sunak’ to call early election amid fears of Tory wipe out
Rwanda Bill delayed after Lords insist on amendments | Meddling Euro judges risk planting seeds of own destruction by overreaching in domestic politics, warns Cameron | ‘Wrong on the economy’: Sunak rounds on Truss after book tour blitz | Tory MPs ‘vent their fury’ after Treasury confirms there will be no boost for defence spending before election
Our deputy editor argues that the whole point of free schools and academies was fostering a more diverse school system, and that requires that individual schools be allowed to enforce their own vision and values.
Henry Hill talks to Sky News’ Anna Botting about the Prime Minister’s new smoking ban.
MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009 | Michaela School defeats prayer ban challenge | Socialist Mayor orders cancellation of Conservative conference in Belgium | Police investigation of Rayner is covering multiple allegations
Sunak faces a Cabinet revolt over his proposed smoking ban as MPs vote on ‘smoke-free generation’ bill | He resists calls to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guard | MPs vote down Rwanda Bill amendments | Braverman to slam Sunak over ECHR and say he lacks ‘political will’ to ditch court
She, Penny Mordaunt, and Johnny Mercer continue to simply trade places on the podium, as they have since November – and only these three have a positive score of over 30 points.
US warns Israel it won’t join any retaliatory strikes on Iran | Policy Exchange calls for M15 to counter Iranian subversion | UK plans to replicate Rwanda deal with other countries
The former Conservative leader argues that “we need to make a greater commitment to the rise in defence spending – if only to give a greater lead to the Europeans to do the same.”
Atkins adds that continually raising the legal age of buying cigarettes will “reduce the demand on the NHS.”
The Shadow Home Secretary responds to a demand Rayner made that Boris Johnson should resign as he was under police investigation.
The Health Secretary adds: “We are having to take this a step at a time. Because it’s a live a operation.”
Massive drone attack on Israel from Iran is foiled – with British help | Badenoch attacks gender ‘cowardice’ of NHS, politics and police | Rayner’s former aide “tells police that she lied” | Sunak criticises ‘complete overreach’ of ‘illegitimate’ ECHR ruling
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.