The Decade in Tory: The Sunday Times Bestseller: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to Covid

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The senior Tory MP told TalkTV: “If you’d been back in the days of Thatcher which he made reference to, she would pick the right decision and then seek to make it popular, not pick the popular decision and implement that. Mark Harper defended the decision to scrap HS2 north of Birmingham as he shrugged off criticism from David Cameron and Boris Johnson. It turns out that growing revenues You keep using the word scrap but what we are doing is replacing HS2 with something that is going to benefit far more people in far more places and far quicker. The prime minister, meanwhile, looked to blame "local factors" for the results, saying "mid-term elections are always difficult for incumbent governments".

Downing Street initially said it would not comment on individual cases, adding that “it is not uncommon” to seek “further information and assurances” over House of Lords appointments. A quarter of local government jobs vanished, with youth workers tackling knife crime the first to go. Downing Street sought further assurances from the security agencies; they told those who needed to know their fundamental assessment about the possible security risk was unchanged, but they also provided extra context, which was enough to lead to a different outcome. This entry was posted in Conservative Party, Government, Politics and tagged Russ Jones, The Week In Tory on September 27, 2022 by Mike Sivier.

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We should not overlook Robert Jenrick who, try as he might, simply couldn’t help having dinner with a pornographer who forced his staff to sing Nazi-themed abuse at rivals, and for whom Jenrick entirely coincidentally did enormous favours at the taxpayers’ expense. The 2012 Leveson inquiry found the relationship between politicians and the press over the previous three decades had damaged the perception of public affairs. If you have appreciated this article, don’t forget to share it using the buttons at the bottom of this page.Some 50 European leaders are using the summit to stress they stand by Ukraine at a time when Western resolve appears somewhat weakened.

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Sir Keir said: "Winning in these Tory strongholds shows that people overwhelmingly want change and they're ready to put their faith in our changed Labour Party to deliver it.

The Transport Secretary this morning brushed off questions on why Rishi Sunak insisted no decision had been made on scrapping part of HS2 when he had recorded a video outlining his decision several days earlier. It also covers people being able to take cheaper Covid lateral-flow tests when they arrive in the UK, instead of the dearer PCR test. Each citation is more sickening to read than the last, and the cumulative effect is nothing short of enraging. Told that in the past he had talked about the importance of an individual’s right to choose and asked why he had changed his mind, Mr Sunak said: “You know, I do and as a Conservative measures to restrict choice are never easy. When I travel around the world to Japan, to America, to Europe, to India, I come back with billions of pounds of investment for our country.