Labour’s campaign co-ordinator says the party’s candidate in Rochdale was right to apologise after claiming Israel allowed the October 7 attacks by Hamas so it could then invade Gaza.
The former Chancellor says Sunak should ‘suppress a bit of ego’ and ask Johnson to come back.
He refuses a bet about whether the flights will start before the General Election, but says they will help to stop the ‘trade in human misery’.
Sunak: I’ll cut taxes to reward hard work | PM earned £2.2m last year, tax return shows | We’ve given up the fight, say top Tories as by-election defeats loom | Gove: If the young can’t get housing, they will abandon democracy
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
Sunak ‘refuses to apologise’ to Ghey’s father over PMQs trans jibe | John Burn-Murdoch: Young people’s desertion of conservatism is not a global phenomenon | Putin ‘threatens World War Three’ if US deploys troops in Ukraine, as he accuses Johnson of having sacrificed a peace deal | Starmer ‘slashes’ £28 billion spending pledge to £4.7 billion in major U-turn
Labour abandons pledge to spend £28 billion on “green investment” | Cleverly to ban flares and fireworks at protests | Badenoch attacks Starmer for “point scoring” over transgenderism
The Prime Minister is challenged over NHS funding and waiting lists, as well as his dentistry plan.
Sunak ‘poised to call the General Election in October’ amid worries of ‘upheaval’ if Trump wins US election | Income tax would rise by 4 per cent to found Labour’s £28 billion green borrowing, according to Hunt | Badenoch: I have evidence gay young people are being told they are transgender | Bowie, the UK minister for building pylons, ‘loses role after campaigning against them’
The King has cancer | Welby to face demands to answer for Church’s role in illegal migrant outrages | Sunak criticised for accepting £1,000 bet over Rwanda policy | Prime Minister says MPs could get bodyguards after threats from Islamic extremists
The Northern Ireland Assembly has returned after the Democratic Unionist Party accepted a deal for some adjustments to the trade border in the Irish Sea.
Sunak visits Belfast as power-sharing at Stormont is restored | Keegan admits free childcare not guaranteed for parents, despite the Prime Minister’s claims | The Education Secretary is ‘under fire’ after suggesting Clapham attack case ‘not really about asylum’ | Brexit drove me to vote SNP, admits former Labour leader Dugdale
“But they might not be the mathematicians that Rishi Sunak is hoping for in the classroom”, suggests GB News’ Camilla Tominey.
The Education Secretary says that the steps the government have already taken towards improving online safety “have yet to be seen by parents”.
The new First Minister of Northern Ireland talks to Sky News. Would she accept an invitation to an Orange march?