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

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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

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2022 18:27 schreef Litpho het volgende:

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Javid accepts he is out of leadership contest, after struggling to get enough nominations

Sajid Javid, the former health and former chancellor secretary, is out of the contest. He was struggling to get the 20 nominations he needed.

He has released this statement.

Serving in government is a true privilege. It has been just seven days since I took the difficult decision to resign from the most important job I have ever had, as health secretary during a pandemic.

Since then, I have set out the values and policies I think are right for the future of our great country. I believe the party must now look outwards, not inwards, if we are to win again.

There is an abundance of both ideas and talent in our party. One of the candidates will be given the honour of becoming prime minister.

I look forward to seeing the debate unfold and to see colleagues working together as a united Conservative party once the leadership election is concluded.

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2022 20:39 schreef Hanca het volgende:
En wat is de meest redelijke kandidaat (als die er nog is, nu de meeste redelijke mensen de Tories verlaten hebben)?

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Op dinsdag 12 juli 2022 20:41 schreef capricia het volgende:
Ik vind het gewoon allemaal niks, om eerlijk te zijn.
Ben ik de enige?

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Average UK household £8,800 a year worse off than those in France or Germany

The UK’s failure to get serious about inequality and weak growth over the past 15 years has left the average British household £8,800 poorer than its equivalent in five comparable countries, research has found.

A “toxic combination” of poor productivity and a failure to narrow the divide between rich and poor had resulted in a widening prosperity gap with France, Germany, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands, the report from the Resolution Foundation said.

The thinktank said that if the UK matched the average income and inequality levels of those countries, typical household incomes in Britain would be a third higher and those of the poorest households two-fifths greater.

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Op woensdag 13 juli 2022 14:17 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Badenoch is zelf genoeg IT onderlegt om de computer van oppositie MP Harriet Harman te hacken.

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Op woensdag 13 juli 2022 17:23 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Nog niet, de stembus is nu gesloten:

https://www.theguardian.c(...)politics-latest-live