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2 days ago
  • 1 min, 14 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

It has been such an atrocious six days for Rishi Sunak that his most lowering point was not Lee Anderson, the gargoyle the prime minister appointed as deputy Tory chair, giving him the finger by declaring that he was jumping ship to the Faragiste Reform party.

In the interim, ministers were fielded on the interview circuit to defend the risibly untenable position that the donor had not been guilty of racism, slavishly echoing Mr Hester’s own claim that he was “rude” but is not a racist.

This reluctance to condemn the Tory donor followed Number 10’s refusal to agree that Lee Anderson was an Islamophobe when he was suspended for peddling the grotesque smear that the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was controlled by Islamist “mates”.

2 days ago
  • 1 min, 35 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

The world moves on and you’re standing at the side of the road covered in dust and dead leaves and dog shit, agreeing with Nick Ferrari about migrants and enjoying Ricky Gervais’s After Life, while great soggy circles of leaking piss radiate out in incriminating ellipses from the fly of the cream trousers you probably shouldn’t wear any more.

Tory MPs dare not give wealthy donors the impression their money will be unwelcome simply because their factory setting is 70s golf-club bar The driver continued explaining himself as we passed the Halifax bank that I remember as the Pied Bull pub, where my derivative 80s band played its third and final gig.

But though Hester’s comments have, as usual, been described as “wrong” by any Tory MP self-abasing enough to publicly parrot the party line, they are still chasing the valuable racist vote and dare not give wealthy donors the impression their money will be unwelcome simply because their factory setting is 70s golf-club bar.

2 days ago
  • 52 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

With Labour still enjoying a ­ double-digit lead in the polls, Starmer’s most senior advisers remain obsessed with guarding against complacency as the election draws nearer.

The events are one element of the private preparations being made by Labour shadow teams after orders from the leader’s office that they had to begin thinking like a “government in waiting” rather than a campaigning protest group.

Several of the group’s 50-strong staff, recruited from across Whitehall and the private sector, have been seconded to Labour’s shadow teams to help draft and stress-test policy ideas in the run-up to the election.

1 day ago
  • 45 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

The rule means young carers cannot take a full course of A-levels, BTecs or T-levels like their peers, because it would require supervised study for more than the permitted 21 hours.

At a time of soaring living costs and increasing pressure on their young shoulders, we should be removing barriers to education for carers, not putting up more.

The group lobbying for the change includes Barnardo’s and the Children’s Society, as well as local authorities, housing associations, colleges and universities, alongside the Learning & Work Institute and the Carers Trust.

1 day ago
  • 1 min, 7 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

Rishi Sunak will lead the Conservative party into an election at the end of the year despite reports of rebellious MPs plotting to oust him to avoid wipeout at the polls, a senior cabinet minister has said.

Many backbench Tory MPs are increasingly concerned about losing their seats after a torrid week for the prime minister, with his budget failing to deliver an immediate bounce in the polls, the defection of Lee Anderson to Reform, and the party embroiled in a racism row over its biggest donor.

There has been speculation in recent days that some MPs on the right of the party want Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the Commons, to act as a “stalking horse” candidate to trigger a leadership contest before the next general election.

1 day ago
  • 57 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

Cabinet ministers in the UK’s post-2019 parliament have lasted in their jobs for an average of just eight months, a report comparing political stability across 17 countries has found, with Westminster also faring badly on a series of other metrics.

On the wider measure of whole-cabinet durability, the UK is also near the bottom of the list, if still above Belgium, Ireland and Italy, with British cabinets reaching an average of 60% of their maximum duration.

More generally, the report, which compared 50 years of politics in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, found no evidence that the UK’s first-past-the-post voting system (FPTP) brings the stability argued by its proponents.

#Politics

Boarding schools have a devastating impact on society, says Charles Spencer
1 day ago

Boarding schools have a devastating impact on society, says Charles Spencer

48 secs

Summary

Charles Spencer, the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, has said the brutalising effect of boarding schools on people who have come to power has been devastating for society.

Elsewhere in the book, Spencer suggested the impact of public school culture had made a difference to some of the people who lead the country.

On the matron, Spencer wrote: “There seemed to be an unofficial hierarchy among her prey … She chose one boy each term to share her bed and would use him for intercourse.

Diverse cabinet is no ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’ on racism, says ex-No 10 adviser
1 day ago

Diverse cabinet is no ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’ on racism, says ex-No 10 adviser

1 min, 5 secs

Summary

A former Downing Street race adviser has warned the government not to use its diversity as a “get-out-of-jail-free card” on tackling racism after a senior minister denied that the Conservatives had a problem after the Frank Hester row.

Rishi Sunak has been under pressure to hand back at least £10m of donations from Hester after the Guardian reported that the businessman had said looking at the MP Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”.

The businessman and Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis, who also appeared on the BBC programme, said he believed Hester’s remarks had been “criminal” and suggested senior politicians had caused division.

Nothing has been done to stop repeat of P&O Ferries scandal, unions say
1 day ago

Nothing has been done to stop repeat of P&O Ferries scandal, unions say

1 min, 1 sec

Summary

Unions said that despite the outrage expressed by government at the time, ministers had not closed the legal loopholes exploited by P&O Ferries, nor sanctioned the firm or its owner, DP World.

The statement said that proposed reforms “fall far short of what’s needed”, with a “feeble code of practice on fire-and-rehire that only makes breaking the law a bit more expensive” and a welfare charter that “was not mandatory – so bad employers can just ignore it, safe in the knowledge they will face zero consequences”.

Its chief executive, Peter Hebblethwaite, who told MPs he knew the firm was breaking the law, remains in place, despite the then transport secretary Grant Shapps saying his position was “completely unsustainable”.

#Politics

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