Quick Glance: Tony Blair: Labour cannot repair UK through taxes and spending
- Blair praises Starmer for saving Labour and emphasizes that he will not be a passenger if his party returns to office next year.
- Blair predicts that Keir Starmer has a good chance of winning the election and becoming the sixth prime minister in eight years.
- Blair, who won three consecutive elections, is once again an influential figure in the Labour Party.
- Blair emphasizes that Starmer is his own person and deserves credit for defeating the hard left and making his party electable.
Quick Glance: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to target 'terrorist' gang leaders behind people-smuggling boats
- Keir Starmer's plan for closer collaboration with the EU on migrants will combat 'vile' people-smuggling gangs, contrasting with Tory 'gimmicks'.
- Sir Keir will restore real-time intelligence sharing, deploy more UK police officers to Europe, and treat people-smugglers as 'terrorists'.
- Sir Keir added, 'The question of whether people can then be returned only applies if people are still getting across the Channel, and what I want to do is to stop the trade.'
- Labour aims to scrap the Government's plan to send asylum claimants to Rwanda and redirect the funds to the National Crime Agency to target gang leaders.
Quick Glance: Deputy PM Dowden Faces Rayner at PMQs as Sunak Attends Nato Summit
- Dowden answers questions from MPs as Sunak misses PMQs for the second week in a row.
- The Tory leader is at a two-day Nato conference in Lithuania, where he will meet with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
- Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, will question Dowden, taking over from Keir Starmer.
🗣️ 'I don't know what question the Deputy Prime Minister was asking but let me try another one'
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🗣️ 'A trend is emerging from Westminster when it comes to tampering with Scottish democracy'
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'It is the political choices being made – such as the Brexit Scotland never voted for and the UK Government continually making dodgy deals with their ... Show more
Mhairi Black was just told off for saying ministers were 'pished' while partying during the pandemic.
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🗣️ 'Even Nigel Farage can admit that Brexit has failed so why can't he?'
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Mhairi Black told to be 'careful' after saying Tories were 'p**hed' during lockdown.
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🗣️ 'It seems like there is an obvious answer but upon closer inspection the answer is arguably that there is little difference between them' ... Show more
🗣️ 'The answer to solving Scotland’s financial burdens does not, and will not, start with any Westminster government'
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🗣 'It is trans rights that are up for debate today but the more devolution is undermined, it won’t be long until all our rights and liberties are up ... Show more