Plus: Cox, another possible. Plus 15 names in total. Women for May. And: I will make sure the Treasury backtracks on the loan charge scandal.
Also: Jones criticised for shielding ministers from independent scrutiny; and Mundell’s bizarre pop at ‘carpet-bagging’ colleagues.
While Andrew Jones returns as an Under-Secretary to the department from which he was removed as an Under-Secretary.
The Government has enacted a broad range of measures to help companies large and small grow, create jobs, and boost their local economies.
The Chancellor has been fortunate that the public finances have improved substantially at a particularly convenient time.
Outside Westminster, Crouch’s resignation will make little impact on a Budget that has gone more or less according to plan. Inside, it may not be quite the same story.
In sum, Hammond said: vote for May’s Deal – or the economy gets it. But there’s more than one way of dicing the next election result.
The Resolution Foundation says that “the government’s flagship welfare reform is now more generous than the benefit system that it is replacing”.
The despondent faces of grown-up people on the Labour benches suggested they know his measures will be very hard to oppose.
It will bring in £400 million a year by 2020. Yes, that’s relatively beer. But once in place, it can be hiked…
We must look at the benefits that reusable nappies can offer, and promote greater awareness so that people can make an informed choice.