Liz Truss reveals she’s spoken with former PM since taking office
The Tories would “absolutely lose” an early general election, Nadine Dorries said after a new poll shows Labour with a 38-point lead in “red wall” constituencies.
The former culture secretary has changed tack after she repeatedly called on PM Liz Truss, as recently as today, to trigger a general election.
Ms Dorries, a loyalist of Ms Truss’s predecessor Boris Johnson, told LBC Radio’s Iain Dale: “I just want to make clear I’m not calling for a general election, because the poll ratings at the moment, we’d absolutely lose it.”
She said Ms Truss needs to “take stock of where she is, to learn from the mistakes of the past few weeks, to look at the manifesto that people elected us on … for me removing Boris and removing the policies is a recipe for disaster.”
The poll by Redfield & Wilton shows that Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour has an approval rating of 61 per cent in constituencies in the Midlands and north of England while the Tories have 23 per cent.
Labour’s lead increased by 12 per cent while the Conservatives’ rating dropped by 11 per cent compared to when the poll was last conducted on 19 and 20 September.
ICYMI: Labour support in ‘red wall’ seats soars to 61%
Support for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party has soared to 61 per cent in the north of England and Midlands constituencies, while Liz Truss’s Conservatives have slumped to just 23 per cent.
You can read the full details here by Adam Forrest
Labour support in ‘red wall’ seats soars to 61%
Remarkable 23-point swing to Keir Starmer’s party in heartlands since mini-Budget mess
Lamiat Sabin4 October 2022 22:31
Donald Trump: ‘Liz Truss will do very well as prime minister’
Liz Truss has been given a glowing endorsement by Donald Trump.
The former Republican president of the US praised the recently-appointed Tory leader for her tax-cutting agenda.
Mr Trump said he believes that she will do “very well” as prime minister.
In an interview with GB News, he said: “I cut taxes very substantially and we did much more business and she’s done that.
“And I know she’s taken some hits for it, which surprises me actually, but it could be at the end of the day you do bigger revenues, it’s going to be very interesting.
“What she did is very inverse to what some people thought. But that doesn’t mean they were right. I have a feeling she might be right.”
Lamiat Sabin4 October 2022 22:00
Braverman berated for saying she wants UK to leave ECHR
A senior government source has criticised home secretary Suella Braverman for saying she wanted the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, contrary to the government’s policy.
When Ms Braverman stood against prime minister Liz Truss for Tory leadership, she campaigned in favour of such a move.
She returned to the topic today at a fringe event hosted by Spectator magazine at the Tory conference in Birmingham.
Ms Braverman said: “I was pretty blunt about this issue in my leadership campaign.
“My position personally is that ultimately we do need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
“That is not government policy, I should say, government policy is to do everything we can within the convention, within the boundaries of the convention.
“But if that doesn’t work, then we will have to consider all options.”
But a senior government told the PA news agency: “As Suella acknowledged, her personal views are contrary to government policy and if she wishes to make those views known within government she should do so in a more appropriate setting.”
Lamiat Sabin4 October 2022 21:30
Dorries: ‘Removing Boris and his policies recipe for disaster’
Removing Boris Johnson and his policies “is a recipe for disaster,” former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has said.
Speaking to LBC Radio’s Iain Dale, she said: “I think what Liz (Truss) needs to do is stop right now and take stock of where she is, to learn from the mistakes of the past few weeks, to look at the manifesto that people elected us on.”
She added: “Because for me removing Boris and removing the policies is a recipe for disaster.”
Lamiat Sabin4 October 2022 21:15
Flip-flopping Dorries: Tories would ‘absolutely lose’ election
Nadine Dorries appears to be flip-flopping over whether the Tory government should call an early general election.
The former culture secretary has – at least two times – said that PM Liz Truss should trigger an election before 2024.
But now she’s saying that she’s not calling for a general election, as polls show that Labour would win by a landslide.
Ms Dorries, a loyalist of Ms Truss’s predecessor Boris Johnson, told LBC Radio’s Iain Dale: “There are a number of issues, but I just want to make clear I’m not calling for a general election, because the poll ratings at the moment, we’d absolutely lose it.”
She added: “I back Liz but what I want Liz to do is to – I’d just like everyone to calm down slightly and to not just throw the baby out with the bath water, which is what’s happening now and to think a bit more carefully about what it was people voted for in 2019.
“How they voted about our manifesto, about the deal that we have with the British public and the promises we made to them, and to think a little bit more about that before we go too gung-ho with policies that people are not going to vote for and not going to like in the future.”
Lamiat Sabin4 October 2022 21:02
‘Altercation’ as security guard ‘stops journalist asking question’
A journalist attending the Conservative conference said there was an “altercation” when the BBC’s Nick Robinson attempted to ask home secretary Suella Braverman a question.
Adam Bienkov, the political editor of Byline Times, said: “Altercation just now at Conservative conference between the BBC’s Nick Robinson and a security guard who was very heavy-handedly trying to physically prevent him from politely asking a question of the Home Secretary Suella Braverman.”
Lamiat Sabin4 October 2022 20:45
Badenoch slams Braverman’s ‘inflammatory’ attack on rebels
In another Cabinet row, Kemi Badenoch has criticised Suella Braverman for her “inflammatory” suggestion that rebel Tory MPs including Michael Gove had staged a “coup” over the top rate of income tax.
She told a ConservativeHome event: “I don’t think we should be talking about coups. I think that sort of language is just too inflammatory. People should be able to change their minds without the world coming to an end.”
But Ms Badenoch said she has been shouting at Mr Gove over his rebellion on the axing of the 45p top tax rate, which helped force the U-turn. “I’ve been shouting at him a lot since Sunday morning.”
Adam Forrest4 October 2022 20:30
MPs call for inquiry amid claims of mini-Budget insider trading
Dozens of MPs have called for a parliamentary inquiry into claims of insider trading around Kwasi Kwarteng’s budget.
In a letter to Mel Stride, the chair of the Treasury select committee, 31 MPs say the chancellor’s contact with financial traders in the run-up to the policy change should be scrutinised “without delay”.
Mr Kwarteng was reported to have privately met with at least one trader who profited from the fall in the value of the Pound sterling in the weeks ahead of his mini-Budget.
You can read the full story here by Jon Stone
Kwasi Kwarteng budget: MPs demand inquiry into ‘insider trading’ claims
Treasury Select Committee urged to probe Chancellor’s contact with City traders
Lamiat Sabin4 October 2022 20:15
Braverman: Police need to ‘stop pandering to identity politics’
Police need to stop spending time “pandering to identity politics”, home secretary Suella Braverman said in her wide-ranging speech about immigration and law and order.
At the Conservative conference, she accused the left of wanting to replace “profound, elemental values” with “the poison of identity politics” that she said “distracts our public servants from doing their real job”.
Ms Braverman also warned that protesters using “guerilla tactics” and engaging in vandalism during demos could be jailed – namechecking Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion.
She also said: “It is not just that pandering to identity politics is a huge waste of time. [Police] need to stick to catching the bad guys … More Pcs, less PC.”
Recently, she took aim at Sussex Police for “playing identity politics and denying biology”, after it said it would not tolerate critical comments about the identity of a transgender woman who sexually abused children years before transitioning.
The police force had said: “This is irrelevant to the crime that has been committed and investigated.”
Lamiat Sabin4 October 2022 20:00
Braverman’s plans ‘inhumane’, refugee rights groups say
Suella Braverman announced that migrants crossing the Channel will face a blanket ban from claiming asylum in Britain.
She set out the rules at the Conservative Party conference in her first major speech as home secretary.
Ms Braverman said: “If you deliberately enter the United Kingdom illegally from a safe country, you should be swiftly returned to your home country or relocated to Rwanda. That is where your asylum claim will be considered.”
She said legislation was being “abused” by people smugglers and she also took aim at lawyers at “specialist small boat-chasing law firms”, adding: “This cannot continue.”
Clare Mosley, founder of refugee charity Care4Calais, described the proposal as “barbaric” and that there is a “mountain of evidence that the vast majority are genuine refugees”.
Refugee Action chief executive Tim Naor Hilton said: “Banning those crossing the Channel from claiming asylum is a blatant breach of the international refugee laws that the UK proudly helped create in the first place.”
Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s refugee and migrant rights director, warned that the government’s behaviour was “doing serious damage to the UK’s international reputation”.
Steve Crawshaw, director of policy and advocacy at Freedom from Torture, said the “inhumane plans clearly undermine international rules introduced after the Holocaust that ensure no-one fleeing persecution is refused protection because of how they arrive in a country.”
Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, branded the proposals “deeply worrying and out of step with the majority of the public who support giving refugees protection.”
Lamiat Sabin4 October 2022 19:45
Kaynak: briturkish.com