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...So I think the problem with levelling up is A, it hasn’t delivered much but B, it’s so linked with those other issues: crime and also the cost of living, right?...
...The Tories say the party’s sums don’t add up. The second is that Labour’s plan to spend £28bn either means higher taxes or higher inflation....
...The Labour leadership is obsessed with demonstrating a), while the Conservative leadership appears to have put very little thought into how to go about avoiding b). If anything, quite the reverse....
...The Tory party’s big problems now cannot be magicked away by having some snazzy promises in their next manifesto....
...The depth of support for these policies on the opposition benches is one reason why they will a) pass into law and b) come with the risk of a large Tory rebellion....
...The changes will not affect hotels, hostels or B&Bs....
...The key loophole in that text was that, A, the language wasn’t binding, and B, there was no clear date....
...These tax policies meant that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves could say that Labour’s various spending pledges were both a) fully funded and b) wouldn’t involve touching the politically contentious taxes,...
...During the week, Davey faced questions over a decision to largely expunge the “B-word” from the party’s pre-manifesto policy documents while at conference itself the ‘what to do about Brexit’ discussions...
...The amount spent on hostels and B&Bs alone totalled £565mn in 2022-23. So what to do?...
...This is a company that can’t deliver the basic ask of an aeroplane manufacturer that its planes get from A to B in one piece....
...For a long, long, long time they’ve believed that Labour would always spend more and tax more than the Tories....
...It’s the group of voters who a) backed the Tory party in 2019 but b) now say they either don’t know how they will vote, will not vote or will vote Reform at a general election....
...Liberal Democrats vow to knock down Tory ‘blue wall’ in the south of England Why the Lib Dem’s Ed Davy doesn’t use the B-word Greater Manchester mayor proposes compromise on HS2 rail line Suella Braverman...
...deterrent to others hoping to arrive in the UK irregularly.https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/status/1724465401982070914 Braverman accused Sunak of having “failed to prepare any sort of credible ‘plan B’...
...As one business leader said to me acidly at last year’s Labour party conference: “I don’t want a b***dy ‘partnership’ with government, I want to get on with running my company.”...
...Aides have not denied that Sunak will announce his new transport plan on the podium on Wednesday, but officials have been working frantically behind the scenes on a plan B....
...“Daisy”, the hard-hitting advert released by Lyndon B Johnson’s successful 1964 election campaign, which depicted a vote for Barry Goldwater as one that risked nuclear destruction, was seen by an estimated...
...OK, but not yet, says the FCDO: This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 22 (1) (a, b and c) of the FOIA (2000)....
...B, wages are better working at a shop or a call centre. And, C, it takes ages to do....
...He was always contracted to return then, and if anything, the more interesting thing to watch is that some senior Tories felt he ought to have come back earlier....
...The Tory right aren’t buying Sunak’s plan B, are they?...
...The reason, he suggests, is that economic shocks thought to be worldwide have hit Britain’s young adults harder than most, with Brexit fuelling their distaste for Tories....
...But the golden thread that links everything it is planning to do is that a) it costs nothing and b) it sounds more impressive than it is....
...Yet both Gullis and Berry are calling for measures that would a) cost a lot of money and b) completely defeat the purpose of the Bank of England’s rate rises....
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