Majority of Tory voters ‘would prefer’ more defence spending over tax cuts | Tim Shipman: Reform now ahead of Sunak’s Tories among male voters | Daniel Hannan: Moral arguments over the state pension are irrelevant. There is no money. | Galloway damned by MPs as ‘stain on democracy’ for ‘lurid untruths’ about the Princess of Wales
The Chancellor spoke to Trevor Phillips after Vladimir Putin linked the Moscow terror attack – estimated to have killed 133 people – to Ukraine.
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Tories now just four points ahead of Reform UK | Robert Jenrick: Liberal elites put their reputation at Davos ahead of Britain’s interests | The Home Office has no plane for Rwanda flights amid ‘migration emergency’ | Starmer urges Nike to change St George’s cross colour on new England shirt
Flights delayed until June as Government loses seven Lords votes on Rwanda Bill | Prime Minister urges Tory MPs to present unified front before local elections | Sunak hails ‘new economic moment’ as inflation falls to a two-year low | …as Tories make ‘huge state pension promise’
UK inflation falls to 3.4 per cent and Bank of England mulls interest rate cut | He is to force European leaders to confront ‘the scourge of people smuggling and illegal migration’ at alt-EU summer gathering at Blenheim Palace | Badenoch: Britain’s diversity drive has backfired | Reeves: New Labour left Britain ‘exposed’ to financial crash
MPs overturn Lords Amendments to Rwanda Bill | Obama visits Downing Street for talks with Sunak | Ministers sued over woke indoctrination in schools
Sunak urges Tories to ‘stick with the plan’ as leadership talk grows | Badenoch ‘slashes red tape’ for medium-sized businesses in ‘post-Brexit boost’ | Rwanda ‘wants two-month pause’ after first migrant flight arrivals | Davey ‘vows to get UK back in single market’
“This is about a sensible government… making sure communities are properly listened to [about low-traffic neighbourhoods]”, the Transport Secretary says.
“We do want to see an injection into the NHS to get it back on its feet,” the Shadow Paymaster General says. But he will not confirm how extra investment will be funded.
The former Tory leader asks ‘why reward him for being abusive?’ Give the money to community cohesion charities, he says.
Mordaunt is ‘stalking horse for Right-wing Tory rival’ | Shapps forced to abandon trip to Ukrainian city ‘after warnings of Russian missile threat’ | Gething to become Welsh First Minister and Europe’s first black leader | Tories plan to amend Equality Act to protect single-sex spaces
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
Sunak rules out holding a general election in May | He ‘infuriates Macron’ over ‘British summit dithering’ | The Communities Secretary ‘didn’t go far enough’, says his own extremism adviser | I’d like Abbott to be a Labour MP again, says Rayner