“The British Prime Minister has all but confirmed 800,000 Polish people will remain in the UK after Brexit. Theresa May, in her most telling statement yet on the issue, condemned ‘shameful and despicable’ attacks on Poles in the wake of the Brexit vote and insisted they continue to be welcome in Britain.” – Daily Mail
Brexit:
Comment:
Editorial:
>Yesterday:
“Every change in the school leaving age has been to raise it. We should do the opposite and lower it to 14. I simply cannot see the point in making another two years of inevitable boredom in class a statutory requirement. At the age of 14, all students should be able to opt for a diploma in a subject that points them towards work… Fortunately the institutions doing this work already exist. I am doing no more than describe University Technical Colleges (UTC), the brainchild of former Conservative education secretary Lord Baker of Dorking.” – The Times (£)
>Today: Lord Ashcroft in Comment: My latest focus groups discuss Brexit, Corbyn, Cameron and May – “the new Iron Maiden”
>Yesterday:
“A Tory MP has attacked the Government’s “embarrassingly poor” response to the Dover queues crisis and suggested it has taken a “sneering” attitude towards those caught up in the problem… Writing for the website Conservative Home, Mr Elphicke, MP for Dover and Deal, wrote: “The Government was caught sleeping at the wheel. The response was embarrassingly poor.” – Daily Telegraph
>Yesterday: Charlie Elphicke in Comment: Yet again the Government has been caught napping by travel chaos at Dover
“The government stunned the energy industry last night by announcing a further review of the Hinkley Point nuclear power station hours after EDF, the French state electricity giant, approved the project. Executives at EDF had been expecting the government to sign a subsidy deal connected to the £18 billion plant in Somerset today.” – The Times (£)
Comment:
Editorial:
“Jeremy Corbyn has fought off attempts to kick him out of the Labour leadership contest after a High Court ruling dismissed a legal challenge by a party donor. Labour donor Michael Foster attempted to force the Labour leader to win the 51 nominations from MPs that Owen Smith had to secure to launch a leadership challenge.” – Daily Mail
Rival:
More Labour:
Comment:
>Today: Iain Dale’s column: Someone should have asked Owen Smith if he was really ready for leadership
>Yesterday: LeftWatch: It’s increasingly hard to imagine Corbyn ever quitting
“A flagship Scottish National party policy on child protection has been found to violate human rights legislation by the Supreme Court in London. The named person scheme – which would provide every Scottish child with an individual official contact – was criticised by the Conservative party ahead of May’s Scottish parliamentary elections as an unwarranted state intrusion.” – FT
Comment:
Editorial:
>Today: ToryDiary: Named Person: how has it come to this?