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LIVE: Jenrick Responds to Burnham’s Social Care Announcement

Streeting Says Borrowing Costs Would Rise If He Backed 3% Defence Spending

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has worked out his excuse for refusing to say the UK will meet its target of 3% defence spending by 2030, which Healey resigned over. He told Sky News: “Let’s say for argument’s sake, I just said yes, we will by 2030 meet 3%. The inevitable next question is: how will…

Warning Andy Burnham could be forced to scrap ‘expensive’ state pension triple lock

The Prime Minister has pledged to transform social care although it remains unclear how changes will be funded.

Defence Committee Finds £850 Million Secret Afghan Resettlement Failure Was Preventable

The Commons’ Defence Select Committee has published its findings into the Afghan resettlement and data breach which led to the secret resettlement of 7,355 people in the UK. The total cost for that: £850 million… The committee found: The MoD has refused to verify that £850 million figure, and journalists who saw the closed court…

Hackney Greens Apologise After Setting October 7th Deadline for Israeli City Split

Hackney’s Green-run council has ‘apologised’ after the mayor Zoë Garbett set an October 7th deadline to end the borough’s twinning arrangement with the Israeli city of Haifa. She claimed the council voted to end the twinning arrangement on Tuesday, but that legal advice would stretch the pointless divorce “over the next few months”. She expected…

Burnham says nuclear sub investment will protect UK and boost jobs

Speaking ahead of a visit to Barrow-in-Furness, the PM seeks to stress the economic benefits of defence spending.

Reform UK to hold press conference after Met rules out investigating Polanski over anti-Farage message – UK politics live

Green party said it was ‘obvious from the start’ that Polanski had not committed an offence Good morning. Reform UK are holding a press conference this morning. It is going to feature Robert Jenrick, the party’s Treasury spokesperson, and he wants to talk about Andy Burnham’s speech yesterday about social care reform. But we already know what Jenrick thinks about that, and there are plenty of other stories that reporters might want to ask about. For a start, there is Anna Isaac’s latest Guardia

Andy Burnham just slapped 40% of the country in the face – how can he be so naïve?

OPINION: Aaron Newbury argues Andy Burnham invited only the parties most likely to agree to his social care talks - leaving Reform UK and the Greens outside on the pavement

Politics LIVE: Andy Burnham savaged over latest announcement

A top Tory warned there is still "no detail at all" in Mr Burnham's latest plans, as critics slammed him for failing to confirm his wider defence strategy.

Polling stations open for Greater Manchester mayoral election

Polling stations are open across Greater Manchester as voters elect the region's next mayor.

Polls open in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection overshadowed by new PM and Farage’s antics

Labour’s Bev Craig expected to win contest that lost column inches to Andy Burnham’s ascent and Reform UK leader’s self-imposed Clacton vote Voting has begun in the biggest byelection in British political history, with more than 2 million people eligible to choose Andy Burnham’s successor as Greater Manchester mayor. In normal times, such a large and politically significant byelection would have dominated the headlines for weeks, particularly as senior Labour figures only weeks ago feared losing

Reform are free speech hypocrites

At the moment, however, Reform possesses contradictory beliefs on the matter. They push back against state overreach in the case of Connolly, but very much welcome it in the case of Polanski. They must make their minds up. They are either staunch defenders of free speech, or they draw the line at incitement.  The post Reform are free speech hypocrites appeared first on Conservative Home.