Priti Patel and Nigel Farage dance at Tory Party convention
Rishi Sunak is anticipated to lastly affirm he’ll scrap the HS2 rail hyperlink to Manchester as Tory MPs are divided over the home secretary’s controversial speech.
Weeks afterThe Independent revealed he needed to axe the northern leg of the road, the prime minister is about to substantiate it as a part of a speech at present through which he can even attack the final 30 years of “broken politics”.
He will argue he’s the political chief to take the robust selections vital for the nice of the nation, whereas additionally accusing Labour of wanting “power for the sake of power” and being “everything that is wrong with our politics”.
It comes as Suella Braverman’s fiery speech on Tuesday has divided opinions after she attracted comparisons to Enoch Powell for claiming a “hurricane” of immigration would sweep throughout Britain.
Grant Shapps rushed to her defence because the Cabinet minister instructed Times Radio this morning, saying, “she makes the absolutely correct point we’ve already seen a lot of movement,” whereas Alicia Kearns, the Conservative MP who chairs the international affairs choose committee, stated Ms Braverman had “crossed the line”.
Rishi Sunak claims he’ll repair Britain’s ‘broken’ politics – after 13 years of Tory rule
Rishi Sunak will attack the final 30 years of “broken” politics – a lot of it underneath successive Conservative governments – as he pledges to essentially reform the UK.
In his first get together convention speech as Tory chief on Wednesday, he’ll hit out at politicians who “spent more time campaigning for change than actually delivering it”.
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 09:35
Braverman speech ‘heckler’ speaks out
Tory London Assembly chairman Andrew Boff stated he feels positive Suella Braverman won’t be chosen as the following Conservative chief as a result of he believes within the “ultimate common sense of the party”.
Mr Boff, who has been a Conservative for about 50 years, stated he has been overwhelmed with messages of assist since being kicked out of the Home Secretary’s speech for heckling on Tuesday.
“I’ve had so many contacts over the past few hours from people who are concerned as I am that we are using this culture war battleground to no good effect at all and we’re actually hurting people,” he instructed LBC.
“And we shouldn’t be doing that as Conservatives. That’s not the Conservative Party I joined and I think we’re better than that.”
Mr Boff stated he believed the Tories are nonetheless on monitor for a “victory next year” however urged the get together to give attention to “the important things” somewhat than “divisive” matters.
Asked whether or not he would stay a Conservative member if Ms Braverman turns into the following chief, he replied: “Luckily that’s not going to happen… because I believe in the ultimate common sense of the party. Also, I very much hope that Suella Braverman learns about the power of her words and moderates her tone.”
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 09:21
What time is Rishi Sunak’s convention speech at present? And how are you going to watch it?
As properly as curbing the HS2 mission, Mr Sunak will use his speech to criticise 30 years of a “broken” system incentivising “the easy decision, not the right one”.
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 09:05
From smoking ban to A Levels, what main insurance policies will Sunak announce at present?
The focus right here in Manchester is on what’s taking place with HS2, however we’re additionally anticipating different main coverage bulletins in Rishi Sunak’s huge speech to convention.
The prime minister is anticipated to announce a ban on smoking for future generations, as beforehand trailed final month.
The coverage would see the authorized age of shopping for cigarettes progressively elevated yearly, successfully banning their sale to individuals underneath a sure age.
Similar measures have been accepted in New Zealand final December which means tobacco might by no means be bought to anybody born after 1 January 2009.
The Times additionally studies that he’ll transfer to reform A-levels by rising the variety of topics pupils can take, and their instructing hours.
The authorities factors to figures exhibiting A-level college students are taught for between 16 and 20 hours per week, in contrast with 26 hours in another nations.
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 08:57
‘It’s a Westminster downside’- Aslef on prepare strikes
The authorities is responsible for long-running rail strikes which have left travellers going through one other day of disruption, in response to Aslef’s basic secretary Mick Whelan.
Speaking on the picket line exterior Euston station in central London, he stated: “We don’t have a problem in Scotland. We don’t have a problem in Wales.
“We don’t have a problem in freight or Eurostar or with all the other companies. It is a Westminster political problem caused by Westminster.”
(James Manning/PA Wire)
(James Manning/PA Wire)
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 08:53
Speaking on BBC Breakfast the defence secretary expanded on his feedback, including: “HS2 trains will run to Manchester, so they’ll still come into Manchester Piccadilly, they’ll still run to Leeds, there will still be a much faster journey time than there has been in the past.
“And not just because some of the section will be actually conventional high speed, or new high speed rail, but also because even the older section can have further upgrades to, for example, its digital infrastructure which is the way the signalling works.”
And he stated money from chopping Manchester’s line can be reallocated to have “benefits across large parts of the North”, although he didn’t specify what these have been.
HS2 trains have been already anticipated to proceed on current line past Birmingham whereas future phases have been to be accomplished – a characteristic of the mission from the beginning.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast the defence secretary expanded on his feedback, including: “HS2 trains will run to Manchester, so they’ll still come into Manchester Piccadilly, they’ll still run to Leeds, there will still be a much faster journey time than there has been in the past.
“And not just because some of the section will be actually conventional high speed, or new high speed rail, but also because even the older section can have further upgrades to, for example, its digital infrastructure which is the way the signalling works.”
And he stated money from chopping Manchester’s line can be reallocated to have “benefits across large parts of the North”, although he didn’t specify what these have been.
HS2 trains have been already anticipated to proceed on current line past Birmingham whereas future phases have been to be accomplished – a characteristic of the mission from the beginning.
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 08:41
Watch: Grant Shapps on HS2 being scrapped: ‘That could also be true’
A Cabinet minister has formally confirmed that Rishi Sunak will make an announcement about HS2 throughout his speech to Tory convention at present.
Speaking throughout a broadcast interview Grant Shapps stated listeners could possibly be “pretty confident” of an announcement on the rail line.
“I know it’s much anticipated and lots of people have have said that there’ll be something with HS2 in it. I think we can be pretty confident that will be heard,” he instructed Times Radio.
Ministers have beforehand stated on the document that an announcement can be made “in due course”.
Grant Shapps on HS2 being scrapped: ‘That could also be true’
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 08:30
Alicia Kearns criticises Braverman’s speech
Alicia Kearns MP took specific situation with the Home Secretary’s declare in an earlier speech within the US that individuals have been pretending to be homosexual to be granted asylum in Britain.
“LGBT+ people were singled out by the home secretary,” she instructed Times Radio.
“When you look at the figures in 2021, only 1.5 per cent of all asylum applications referenced sexuality. How are we worried about the 1.5 per cent when the other vast, vast majority is actually what we should be looking at.
“And that for me is the kind of example where why are we singling out LGBT+ people when we should be focusing on the vast, vast majority?”
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 08:20
Suella Braverman’s controversial speech at Tory Party convention divides MPs
A controversial speech given by home secretary Suella Braverman on Tuesday is dividing opinions at Tory convention in Manchester.
The home secretary has attracted comparisons to Enoch Powell after she claimed a “hurricane” of immigration would sweep throughout Britain.
One defender is Defence Secretary Grant Shapps. The Cabinet minister instructed Times Radio this morning: “She makes the absolutely correct point we’ve already seen a lot of movement… we could see a lot more, a hurricane, as she describes it, of people moving.”
Ms Braverman had claimed that “millions” of individuals would arrive within the UK, including: “The wind of change that carried my own parents across the globe in the 20th century was a mere gust compared to the hurricane that is coming.”
She additionally criticised organisations for adopting LGBT-inclusive insurance policies, branding them “woke” – a time period of derision utilized by right-wingers on-line.
But different Conservatives criticised the Home Secretary. One was Andrew Boff, the chief of the Conservatives on the London Assembly. He was escorted out of the corridor after talking out of flip and saying there was “no such thing as gender ideology”.
And elsewhere Alicia Kearns, the Conservative MP who chairs the international affairs choose committee, stated Ms Braverman had “crossed the line”.
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 08:08
Greater Manchester mayor says HS2 scrapping is ‘not a workable plan’
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham stated the latest plan to chop the Manchester to Birmingham leg of HS2 is “not a workable plan” and there’s “huge frustration and growing anger in Greater Manchester”.
He instructed BBC Breakfast: “It’s so frustrating. It just proves there’s still so many people in politics, many of them in the Tory party, that think they can treat the north of England differently to the way they treat other parts of the country it’s just so wrong.
“I’ve been in politics 30 years, I’ve never seen a party come to a conference and leave an axe hanging over the place they’re in for the whole week. And then actually drop it on that place.
“I just don’t think it’s fair to people in Greater Manchester to do this and the plan that they’re putting forward, that we’ve only seen briefed overnight because we haven’t even been told what it is, takes trains off HS2 at Birmingham and puts them on the existing tracks of the West Coast Mainline that just simply isn’t going to work.
“It’s not a workable plan and you know, you can understand why there is just huge frustration and indeed growing anger in Greater Manchester about this.”
(PA Wire)
Maryam Zakir-Hussain4 October 2023 07:57
