[Britse politiek] #129: What have we done...

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Op vrijdag 8 juli 2022 10:16 schreef Berkery het volgende:
Daily Mail is not happy:

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Op donderdag 7 juli 2022 17:05 schreef Litpho het volgende:
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Dat zou verklaren waaom hij nog even niet opstapt.

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Even when a new prime minister is elected, getting the Johnsons out of Chequers might not be straightforward. After Johnson resigned as foreign secretary, it took officials three weeks to get him to leave his official residence at One Carlton Gardens. A short grace period is normal for MPs who have to leave grace-and-favour accommodation, but Foreign Office officials got increasingly exasperated at Johnson's refusal to budge.

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Amid the chaos of Johnson’s resignation, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Labour could also soon be looking for a new leader.

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to step down if fined for an event in Durham during lockdown in which he and other party activists ate takeaway food and drank beer on a campaigning trip.

Asked about this on Today, Rayner says neither she nor Starmer will appeal if found by Durham Police to have broken coronavirus rules.

We’ll accept the findings.

You know, it’s very clear that both myself and Keir believe that we believe in the rule of law.

We believe that if you’re a lawmaker, you can’t be a lawbreaker, and that we couldn’t lead the party under those conditions.

We’ve got a prime minister who spent the last couple of months trying to cling on to power that has devastated the British public and we’ve not been dealing with the issues that matter to them.

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Op vrijdag 8 juli 2022 10:16 schreef Berkery het volgende:
Daily Mail is not happy:

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Op vrijdag 8 juli 2022 11:49 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Op vrijdag 8 juli 2022 12:51 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Tja, je moet wat als je de nieuwe vriendin geen baantje kan bezorgen op de kosten van de belastingbetaler:
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Ik neem aan dat iedereen begrijpt dat Boris Johnson de rekening hiervoor niet uit eigen zak betaalde?

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Op vrijdag 8 juli 2022 13:12 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Ja, en ook daar loog Johnson over naar achteraf blijkt tegen de man die het onderzocht.

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Op vrijdag 8 juli 2022 13:44 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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No case to answer volgens de politie in Durham. Dus Starmer was niet overmoedig en heeft geen regels overtreden.

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Op zaterdag 9 juli 2022 15:14 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Defensie minister Wallace die de hoogste ogen gooide bij een poll onder Conservatieven zegt zich niet kandidaat te gaan stellen.

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Op zaterdag 9 juli 2022 14:53 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Tot nu toe hebben 4 zich kandidaat gesteld:
Rishi Sunak
Tom Tugendhat
Suella Braverman
Kemi Badenoch

Hebben aangevgeven dat ze het overwegen:
Rehman Chishti
Nadine Dorries

Worden verwacht:
Liz Truss
Sajid Javid
Nadhim Zahawi
Penny Mordaunt

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Priti Patel’s plan to end Channel crossings in disarray as navy threatens to ‘walk away’

The Royal Navy is threatening to “walk away” from Boris Johnson and Priti Patel’s plan to stem the number of boats carrying asylum seekers across the Channel as official data shows how spectacularly the policy has backfired.

Defence chiefs are said to be fed up with trying to enact the prime minister and home secretary’s rapidly imploding plan of using the military to control small boats in the Channel.

Ministry of Defence data shows crossings have close to doubled since the military was given “primacy” over the issue from mid-April compared with the first three months of this year.

Patel and Johnson were warned that deploying the Royal Navy would be likely to increase the number of crossings but ignored expert advice because, according to internal sources, they wanted to appear tough.

One former defence minister told the Observer that their miscalculation had guaranteed the navy was effectively providing an “efficient taxi service” for asylum seekers.

Meanwhile, senior Home Office sources have admitted the UK could receive up to 60,000 people by small boat this year – double last year’s record – with another 20,000 arriving by different routes, undermining the credibility of Patel, who has made reducing crossings her priority.

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Op zondag 10 juli 2022 10:44 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://www.theguardian.c(...)reatens-to-walk-away

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Op zaterdag 9 juli 2022 22:05 schreef Litpho het volgende:
Mordaunt wordt volgens de wandelgangen aangemoedigd om zich niet verkiesbaar te stellen omdat haar mening over transgenders te liberaal zou zijn voor de TERFs.

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Anger over new ministerial job for MP accused of asking if alleged Pincher victim was gay

Anger is growing among senior Conservatives over the promotion of an MP criticised for her alleged handling of groping claims made against the former deputy chief whip, Chris Pincher.

One senior Tory said the appointment of Sarah Dines as a justice and home office minister was an “absolutely disgraceful decision”. Dines, who had been an assistant whip, has been accused by one of Pincher’s alleged victims of asking him if he was gay. According to an account from one of the complainants, she is alleged to have said the fact he was gay “doesn’t make it straightforward”.

Some in the party want Boris Johnson to reveal whether he was warned against promoting Dines by the civil service, as part of routine propriety checks.

A source familiar with the incident said the fact that Dines had been approached by the alleged victim and had followed up the issue with the chief whip showed she had taken it seriously. They said she had asked questions in order to establish if any prior relationship was involved.

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Op zondag 10 juli 2022 12:05 schreef borisz het volgende:
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Foreign secretary Liz Truss, chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and transport secretary Grant Shapps all threw their hats into the ring.

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So, we’re on nine official candidates for the Tory leadership so far, and expecting at least one more (namely Liz Truss) to join over the next day.

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Op zondag 10 juli 2022 18:17 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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First past the post doen?

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Op zondag 10 juli 2022 10:44 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://www.theguardian.c(...)reatens-to-walk-away

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Op zaterdag 9 juli 2022 22:05 schreef Litpho het volgende:

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Mordaunt wordt volgens de wandelgangen aangemoedigd om zich niet verkiesbaar te stellen omdat haar mening over transgenders te liberaal zou zijn voor de TERFs.

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Op zondag 10 juli 2022 20:01 schreef MoreDakka het volgende:

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Eerder dat ze geen stelling durft te nemen. Par for the course voor de meeste politici natuurlijk.

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Op maandag 11 juli 2022 00:04 schreef Litpho het volgende:

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Ze had al stelling genomen door te verklaren dat transmen men zijn in de house of commons. Nu terugkrabbelen maakt niemand blij en niemand trapt er in.

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Op maandag 11 juli 2022 02:59 schreef MoreDakka het volgende:

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Behalve dan dat die zinsnede nul betekenis heeft. Dat is het probleem. Typisch politicus-antwoord.

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Op maandag 11 juli 2022 07:39 schreef nixxx het volgende:
Zou de afkomst van Sunak en Zahawi nog een obstakel zijn voor de leden van de conservatieven? Dat men het een stap te ver vindt om iemand uit de voormalige koloni�n PM te maken?

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Op maandag 11 juli 2022 11:41 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Voor sommigen wel, ja. Onder de MP's zal het mischien geen punt zijn maar als de leden gaan stemmen zal het wel een aspect zijn.

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Op maandag 11 juli 2022 18:07 schreef Litpho het volgende:
Gegeven dat de verkiezing op zijn vroegst rond zijn in september (maar vermoedelijk later) suggereerde iemand op Twitter dat Hunt for a Blue October een goede slogan zou zijn .

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Britain to have new PM by 5 September as Tory leadership rules announced

Britain’s new prime minister will be announced on 5 September, it has been announced, as the starting gun was fired on a Tory leadership race that will see the hopefuls whittled down to two by Thursday.

With just two contenders so far having the support of the 20 Tory MPs needed to get them on to the ballot, the nine remaining hopefuls were scrambling to shore up support by Tuesday night before knockout votes begin on Wednesday.

To speed up the competition, the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers on Monday opted to increase the number of backers that a candidate needed from eight to 20, and ruled that they would need at least 30 votes to get past the first round.

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak has secured the backing of nearly 40 MPs, while trade minister Penny Mordaunt has 24. Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, has the fewest public supporters – eight – while Suella Braverman, the attorney general, has 12.

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Those who struggle to reach the 20 threshold could be forced to pull out within 24 hours and instead pledge their support to one of the frontrunners.

Mordaunt was given a boost by polling for Conservative Home on Monday night showing that she was the preferred candidate among party members.

Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee, said there was “quite a big field” of those hoping to replace Boris Johnson and that it was shaping up to be “quite a lively contest”, but added it should be concluded “reasonably rapidly”.

The final two should have been decided by the time the Commons goes into recess at the end of Thursday, Brady said, with some in-person and virtual hustings held during August and a new prime minister announced on 5 September.

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2022 07:16 schreef Litpho het volgende:
Dat wordt een fijn spelletje horse trading in de achterkamertjes..

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Don't Know is on second. Laat Bud en Lou er maar niet achter komen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2022 13:51 schreef George_of_the_Jungle het volgende:
Zag een kop in de krant dit weekend dat Rishi Sunak flinke belastingverlagen zou voorstellen. Uiteraard verlagingen waar vooral mensen met een vergelijkbare hoeveelheid wealth als hij en zijn vrouw van zouden profiteren lijkt me, en de gewone Engelsman weer de sjaak is. Men is schijnbaar alweer vergeten dat zijn vrouw 10+ miljoen aan dividend per jaar krijgt, maar daar geen belasting over betaalde in het VK. En dat hij (en ook zijn vrouw) een green card in de VS hadden (die je alleen kunt hebben als je er permanent woont), maar dat hij tegelijkertijd ook PM was in het VK.

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Truss wins backing from Rees-Mogg and Dorries, positioning her as Johnsonite, 'Stop Sunak' candidate

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Brexit opportunities minister, and Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, have just told Sky News that they are backing Liz Truss for the Tory leadership.

Rees-Mogg says Truss had been his strongest supporter in cabinet in terms of seeking Brexit opportunities. He went on:

When we discussed taxation, Liz was always opposed to Rishi’s higher taxes. That again is proper Conservatism. And I think she’s got the character to lead the party and the nation.
Asked if Truss was the ‘Stop Rishi’ candidate, Rees-Mogg replied:
Liz Truss is the best candidate. She’s a proper Eurosceptic. She will deliver for the voters. She’ll deliver for the voters. She believes in low taxation.

Dorries added: “And she’s a woman.”

This joint endorsement will firm up Truss’s position as the lead candidate for the Tory right. It also confirms that she is effectively the Johnsonite, ‘Stop Sunak’ candidate. Boris Johnson thinks his former chancellor was disloyal, and blocked his spending plans.

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Zahawi hits back at Sunak, saying 'cutting taxes isn't fairytale'

In an interview with BBC Breakfast this morning Nadhim Zahawi, the new chancellor and Tory leadership candidate, hit out at his predecessor for implying rivals offering immediate tax cuts were peddling “comforting fairy tales”. Zahawi told BBC Breakfast:

Of course we need to reduce the burden of tax. I believe cutting taxes isn’t a fairytale but rather a critical step to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.

Zahawi claimed his promises were fully costed, and he said he would be “saying more about the way we’ll pay for that in the coming days”.

He also said he was confident that he would receive the 20 nominations he needs by the end of the day to be on the ballot paper.

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Ian King, the Sky News journalist who presents a morning business news show on the channel, wins this morning’s “speaking truth unto power” award. Sky News presenters are generally impartial, but King let rip when asked by his colleague, Kay Burley, about the Tory leadership candidates. He told viewers:

I’ve never heard such a lot of rubbish coming out of some of these people’s mouths. I remember a time when the Conservatives stood for sound money. Here they all are brandishing these unfunded tax cuts around. The whole thing is an absolute farce, isn’t it?

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Tugendhat promises 'leadership with renewed sense of mission'

The third campaign launch this morning was Tom Tugendhat’s. Here are the main points from his launch.

Tugendhat said he would offer “leadership with a renewed sense of mission” and a “clean start”.

He said he would cut fuel tax by 10p a litre, and reverse the national insurance increase. He said:

I am here to make the case that our economy can only prosper if we believe that people - and not Westminster - know best how to spend their money.

I know the pain families are feeling now. That is why my first pledge is to take fuel duty down by 10p a litre.

My second is to reverse the national insurance rise.

This isn’t about percentages. It’s about jobs.

That’s why I didn’t vote for the increase then, and I wouldn’t now.

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'It's question of when, not if' - Sunak promises to get tax burden down

Turning to the economy, Sunak goes on:

We need to have a grown-up conversation about the central policy question that all candidates have to answer in this election. Do you have a credible plan to protect our economy and get it growing?

My message to the party and the country is simple. I have a plan to steer our economy through these headwinds. We need a return to traditional conservative economic values. And that means honesty and responsibility, not fairy tales.

It is not credible to promise lots more spending and lower taxes.

Sunak says he had to take the most difficult choices as chancellor. He goes on:

Once we have gripped inflation, I will get the tax burden down. It is a question of when not if.

He ends by saying a better future is not given, it is earned. That is why he is standing.

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Priti Patel rules out running for Tory leadership
Priti Patel, the home secretary, has put out a statement saying she will not be standing for the Tory leadership.

She is not backing any other candidates, but she does not rule out doing so later in the contest

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2022 14:55 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Ik dacht dat vooral andere kandidaten (of hun backers) tax cuts voorstelden, en zeiden dat Sunak dat niet zou doen. (was het niet Nadine Dorries die enkele dagen geleden zei dat tax cuts de overheid meer inkomsten zouden opleveren?)

Laatste nieuwtjes van de Guardian blog (waarin taxes ter sprake komen)
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Al belooft Sunak ook tax cuts, eens de inflatie onder controle is.
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Shapps heeft zich teruggetrokken en steunt Sunak.

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Liz Truss has now received the backing of 20 MPs, meaning she has secured the necessary number of nominations to contend the Tory leadership race.

Paul Bristow, MP for Peterborough, has switched his allegiance to the foreign secretary after his previous top choice, Grant Shapps, pulled out of the race.

Bristow tweets that Truss is "best placed" to unite the Conservative Party and deliver for Britain.

Truss now joins Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and Tom Tugendhat as the contenders who have so far reached the support of 20 MPs ahead of tonight's 18:00 BST deadline.

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The ConservativeHome website conducts its own regular survey for a panel of Conservative party members and today it has also been publishing the results of its own poll on how they would vote in a series of one-to-one contests. These figures suggest that Sunak would lose to Truss and Mordaunt - by 17 points and 27 points respectively. The website still has not published its final results, but the figures available so far suggests the strongest candidates are Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch.

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Liz Truss: 33 per cent.
Penny Mordaunt: 51 per cent.
Don’t know: 16 per cent.
(936 votes cast.)

Liz Truss: 34 per cent.
Kemi Badenoch: 52 per cent.
Don’t know: 14 per cent.
(940 votes cast.)

Liz Truss: 40 per cent.
Suella Braverman: 40 per cent.
Don’t know: 20 per cent.
(942 votes cast. Truss wins by 381 votes to 376.)

Liz Truss: 49 per cent.
Nadhim Zahawi: 34 per cent.
Don’t know: 18 per cent.
(937 votes cast.)

Liz Truss: 51 per cent.
Rishi Sunak: 34 per cent.
Don’t know: 15 per cent.
(929 votes cast.)

Liz Truss: 52 per cent.
Sajid Javid: 34 per cent.
Don’t know: 14 per cent.
(945 votes cast.)

Liz Truss: 55 per cent.
Tom Tugendhat: 29 per cent.
Don’t know: 16 per cent.
(938 votes cast.)

Liz Truss: 56 per cent.
Priti Patel: 20 per cent.
Don’t know: 14 per cent.
(934 votes cast.)

Liz Truss: 60 per cent.
Grant Shapps: 21 per cent.
Don’t know: 20 per cent.
(936 votes cast.)

Liz Truss: 62 per cent.
Jeremy Hunt: 25 per cent.
Don’t know: 14 per cent.
(944 votes cast.)

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With only two and a half hours to go before nominations close for the Conservative leadership, only four candidates have already got the 20 public endorsements they need: Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss and Tom Tudendhat. Kemi Badenoch is quite close. But other candidates are struggling. The Guido Fawkes website has a good spreadsheet with the names.

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2022 18:23 schreef Szura het volgende:
Braverman zegt dat ze ook aan de 20 zit