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Tory leadership: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt answer questions in digital hustings - as it happened | |
(over 1 year later) | |
Brexit watcher Christopher James has reservations about the Grieve/Beckett plan to derail a no-deal Brexit via an amendment: | |
Have gone through the Estimates. ‘Stop No Deal by defunding the Government’ would also mean:🚨 No NHS or schools funding🚨 No funding for Electoral Commission or National Audit Office🚨 No pay for anyone employed by the House Service (e.g chefs, security)🚨 No pay for MPs https://t.co/BajHtXsKdz | |
His concerns are echoed elsewhere. This from tortoise’s Chris Cook and the Observer’s Michael Savage: | |
Wait: all spending? Or designated No Deal spend? | |
It’s just a device to stop no deal that govt can’t ignore. Spending this financial year (as I understand it) | |
No, i get that. I was just wondering whether it was literally all supply! | |
Indeed. A vote on no deal seems to be their price. | |
And this from the ex-director of legislative affairs at No 10, Nikki da Costa: | |
I had thought via @adampayne26 Grieve and Beckett were targeting main estimates. But apparently they are targeting departments DFID, DfE, DWP, MHCLG. So in a no deal scenario, no funds for overseas, schools, pensions, benefits, housing. Lovely plan! | |
That’s it from me. Goodnight and thanks for tuning in. | |
And this from Kevin Schofield from PoliticsHome on the matter: | |
This is Huda Elmi, who sat on a Labour NEC panel today and voted for Chris Williamson’s suspension to be lifted. https://t.co/FMkJDpTaIV | |
This from MP Luciana Berger, who left the Labour party earlier this year because she felt it had become an “institutionally anti-Semitic” party: | |
I thought when I left it wouldn’t be so painful. But it hurts now even more.For anyone left behind in @uklabour who expressed outrage at the time - what is your red line? What are you going to do? Silence/mealy tweets are tantamount to complicity.https://t.co/oZbOgqBD4l | |
This from Sky’s Tom Rayner, in reaction to Berger’s tweet above: | |
Ruth Smeeth & Margaret Hodge insisted tonight that under no circumstances would they leave Labour, despite their outrage over the Chris Williamson decision. They say they want "stay and fight"But Ian Austin & now Luciana Berger are asking how long they can hold that position https://t.co/brmlRmSDwH | |
This just in from my colleague Patrick Wintour on the Chris Williamson case. Read the whole thread he has retweeted. | |
The Young Labour rep on the Labour NEC in her concluding argument suggests it might have been expensive not to reinstate Chris Williamson. https://t.co/kMveKMFVPx | |
My colleague Rowena Mason has written up a summary of the Tory hustings: | |
Boris Johnson: chances of no-deal Brexit are 'a million-to-one against' | |
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Chris Williamson’s readmission to the Labour party is generating more comments on Twitter than the Tory hustings. | |
Here my colleague Jessica Elgot’s story: | |
'Disgusting': Labour fury over return of Chris Williamson | |
This from Ian Austin MP, formerly Labour and now independent: | |
It’s a disgrace that Chris Williamson is let off with a warning. It shows the extent to which a party which had a proud record on racism has been poisoned under Jeremy Corbyn. The only question is when decent Labour MPs will finally say enough is enough and do something about it. https://t.co/m6vgRyaZqd | |
And this from Labour’s Jess Phillips MP: | |
If I'd said the things Chris Williamson did I would be out of the party no question. | |
This from Labour MP Stella Creasy: | |
The decision to let chris Williamson back into party in time for him to stand again as a labour candidate is best example yet of why we need an independent process for anti Semitism and sexual harassment complaints and not mates rates ... #EnoughIsEnough | |
This from The Times’ Henry Zeffman: | |
Hope Not Hate on Labour’s decision to readmit Chris Williamson pic.twitter.com/BcZ1eHwSs9 | |
And this from Sky News’ Tom Rayner: | |
NEW: Senior source tells me Jewish Labour Movement will ask the @EHRC to use statutory powers to request WhatsApp messages of @ClaudiaWebbe in relation to the NEC dispute panel meeting on Chris Williamson | |
This from The Sun’s Tom Newton Dunn: | |
Justice Secretary David Gauke tells #Peston he will resign from the Cabinet if Boris becomes PM: "On the basis of what I’ve heard so far, I wouldn’t serve. To be fair to him, I wouldn’t be able to give him full-hearted support". | |
My colleagues Rowena Mason and Heather Stewart have written a piece about a planned Tory MP attempt to throw a spanner in the works of no-deal proceedings. | |
Tory MPs try to stop no-deal Brexit with amendment | |
This is from the BBC’s Glenn Campbell: | |
“Get #Brexit done right, I think we can cement and intensify the Union”@BorisJohnson thinks #Brexit will make Scottish independence “less likely”Weekend poll suggested #indyref2 would go the other way if he becomes PMClip via @Conservatives digital hustings pic.twitter.com/NETVG6SziW | |
An interesting piece of info from the Observer’s Michael Savage: | |
NEW: Cross-party group of MPs to launch plan next week to block all government spending in the event of No Deal.Amendment to be attached to government estimates next week. Grieve/Beckett leading it. #CommonsCoup | |
This from the Daily Mirror’s Pippa Crerar: | |
Boris Johnson, asked if he would suspend Parliament to force through No Deal, refuses to answer. If that is his strategy, it’s deeply worrying. 👇🏼👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/gDlUkT8ZsQ | |
Conservative MP Mark Francois, the deputy chairman of the European Reserach Group, has told Robert Peston that Boris Johnson has promised the ERG not to bring the withdrawal agreement back for another vote. | |
There is absolutely no way the ERG would vote to revive the Withdrawal Agreement and @BorisJohnson has “absolutely guaranteed” he won’t be bringing it back Mark Francois tells @Peston #Peston pic.twitter.com/AyeMQPoETq | |
This from the Spectator’s Andrew Neill on Hunt’s and Johnson’s comments regarding the rules of Gatt24 in case of a no-deal exit: | |
Indeed. https://t.co/87sKe69MZn | |
Jeremy Hunt just posted this video on Twitter: | |
Today in Essex I spoke to small businesses about how I am going to cut business rates to help them thrive. Watch my video: pic.twitter.com/hM6qql0VQz | |
And this is from the official BackBoris campaign: | |
🗣️ @BorisJohnson: "When I was Mayor of London, we got police back on the streets, we kept police numbers high, and the murder rate came down by 50%."#AskTheNextPM #BackBoris pic.twitter.com/cotbIEdCLz | |
Jeremy Hunt just told Peston on ITV that he “presumes from what Boris is saying” that Johnson would call a general election in case parliament takes no-deal off the table. I thought I’d heard Johnson say the opposite, but who knows with all this mumbling. | |
.@Jeremy_Hunt says that unlike Boris Johnson, he will not call a General Election if Parliament takes ‘no deal’ off the table #Peston. pic.twitter.com/5iTkZew7d3 | |
This from Buzzfeed’s Emily Ashton: | |
Jeremy Hunt says impossible to use GATT 24 in case of no deal. So Johnson is lying? No "not a lie" just "factually incorrect" 🤷♀️ #AskTheNextPM |