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Kate Devlin, Whitehall Editor
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Quit after Makerfield by-election, Streeting tells Starmer |
Keir Starmer’s woes are accumulating ahead of Thursday’s Makerfield by-election.
Polls suggest his main leadership rival Andy Burnham is likely to win the seat and return to Parliament.
And even before a vote has been cast, Wes Streeting – another leadership candidate – has called on Sir Keir to quit after the result. He has called on the PM to “at that stage reflect on his own position and set out a timetable” for his departure.
Speaking at the G7 meeting in Evian, where he may be attending his last international summit, Sir Keir said he would not walk away and would “carry on with what I was elected to do”.
How feasible that is may depend on the scale of the result in the small hours of Friday morning.
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A bone-headed bit of officialdom from the body supposed to look after the interests of rural England may force farmers to slaughter the moorland’s famous wild horses – it has to stop, says Julian Glover
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What else you need to know
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Rupert Lowe is rapidly becoming the most dangerous man you’ve never heard of
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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I have written about the unexpected rise of Restore Britain, driven by Facebook rather than the mainstream media and amplified by Elon Musk.
Lowe's success in rallying the "Enoch was right" tendency is worrying, but there is a positive side-effect in splitting the right, seen most dramatically in Makerfield, where Reform might have had a chance if not for the spoiler campaign.
Read it all here.
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Reform wants to hike taxes for employers who hire foreign workers
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As someone who arrived in England as an immigrant child at the age of six, I find Robert Jenrick's proposal deeply troubling. I integrated, went to school, attended university, became a teacher and paid taxes for decades.
Ironically, despite working in education, I eventually had to leave the UK for better-paid work overseas because as a single parent I simply could not survive financially. Nursery fees, rent on a damp house, petrol, car insurance and household bills consumed all of my salary. Every month I was in the red and taking out loans just to get by.
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The plan is wrong for EU nationals settled here, but right-ish otherwise. Until recently the rules allowed UK workers to be undercut by foreign nationals. It's proper that employers should employ locals first.
Of course, councils, the NHS and the care sector will all face massive bills, so I expect a carve out for those or the plan to be abandoned.
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Inside the by-election that could change UK politics |
In this episode, Helen and Cleo discuss what happens if Burnham actually wins - will he become prime minister any time soon? And is Keir Starmer really in ‘legacy mode’?
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Inside the by-election that could change UK politics |
In this episode, Helen and Cleo discuss what happens if Burnham actually wins - will he become prime minister any time soon? And is Keir Starmer really in ‘legacy mode’?
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