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UK politics live: Rayner accuses Tories of ‘wallowing in sleaze’ after Speaker allows vote on move to stop Paterson suspension | UK politics live: Rayner accuses Tories of ‘wallowing in sleaze’ after Speaker allows vote on move to stop Paterson suspension |
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Latest updates: crunch vote – which will see Tory MPs told to shelve a report from the cross-party standards committee – will go ahead after 3pm | Latest updates: crunch vote – which will see Tory MPs told to shelve a report from the cross-party standards committee – will go ahead after 3pm |
Robert Barrington, professor of anti-corruption practice at the University of Sussex, has posted a thread on Twitter strongly critical of the government’s stance in the Owen Paterson case. It starts here. | |
From the FT’s George Parker | |
These are from Patrick Maguire from the Times on the 59 Tory MPs who have signed the Andrea Leadsom amendment. | |
And this is from Sam Bright from Byline Times on the same group of MPs. | |
Of course, now it is not just the 59 Tories named on the order paper (pdf) who are backing the amendment; all Conservatives have been told to vote for it. | |
Prospect, a union representing many workers in the public sector, has condemned the proposal to vote down the Commons standards committee report into Owen Paterson. Garry Graham, its deputy general secretary, said: | |
Angela Rayner is responding for Labour. She says the next week and a half will be crucial. | |
She says Labour wants Cop26 to be a success. | |
But there is some cause for concern, she says. The G20 needed to be a springboard for Cop26. But it did not achieve that, she says. She says the PM is failing to persuade world leaders that more needs to be done. She says commitments for the distant future are not enough. | |
She says the government should have followed the example of Wales, and ruled out new coal mines. And the government is agreeing a trade deal with Australia that excludes climate pledges. | |
Turning to vaccines, she says in some of the poorest countries only 3% of people have been vaccinated. The UK is lagging behind all G7 countries bar one in sharing vaccines. That is “shameful”, she says. | |
Boris Johnson is making a statement on the G20 summit in Rome and Cop26. | |
He says at Paris the world agreed to keep the increase in global temperature to 1.5C. | |
Now is the moment of global reckoning, he says. | |
If we fail, Paris will have been a failure, and every other summit too, he says. | |
He says if global temperatures were to rise by 2C, coral reefs would be destroyed. There would be an ever warming and acidic ocean. | |
He says the G20 summit provided “encouraging evidence” of that will to deal with this. | |
Britain was the first G20 country to commit to net zero. Now 18 of the G20 countries have done that, he says. | |
He says the G20, including China, agreed to stop funding international coal projects. | |
The G20 also agreed to levy corporation tax at 15%. | |
It adopted a target of vaccinating 70% of the world’s population against Covid by next year, he says. | |
And the G20 agreed to work together to address supply chain problems, he says. | |
Johnson says far more needs to be done to spare humanity from catastrophic climate change. | |
So the biggest summit ever hosted by the UK is now underway in Glasgow, he says. It is trying to keep the aspiration of 1.5C alive, he says. | |
He says for millions of people the outcome is literally a matter of life or death. | |
The negotiations have two weeks to run. But we can take heart from what has been achieved so far, he says. He says 90% of the world’s economies are now committed to net zero. There have been agreements on methane and deforestation. India has set a target for half its energy to come from renewable sources. | |
Johnson says he asked the world for action on coal, cars, cash and trees. Progress is being made on three out of four of these, he says. He says the government will press on with this until the last hour. | |
Ruth Edwards (Con) asks if the PM supports her campaign for new healthcare centre in Rushcliffe. | Ruth Edwards (Con) asks if the PM supports her campaign for new healthcare centre in Rushcliffe. |
Johnson says he is sure the health secretary will do his utmost to help. | Johnson says he is sure the health secretary will do his utmost to help. |
Johnson says he would oppose a “checkpoint Chigwell” proposal to charge cars coming into London. | Johnson says he would oppose a “checkpoint Chigwell” proposal to charge cars coming into London. |
Johnson says the government has helped people on universal credit with a “£1bn tax cut”. | Johnson says the government has helped people on universal credit with a “£1bn tax cut”. |
He is referring to the lowering of the taper rate, which is a benefit increase not a tax cut. | He is referring to the lowering of the taper rate, which is a benefit increase not a tax cut. |
Johnson says it would be massively in the interests of Iran and its people it it were to return to the international nuclear energy agreement. | Johnson says it would be massively in the interests of Iran and its people it it were to return to the international nuclear energy agreement. |