🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is currently refusing to sack Mike Tapp despite Shabana Mahmood's request
It’s understood No 10 see him as a Minister commenting on a policy that falls within his remit
Tapp is also very loyal to Starmer, while Mahmood called for him to step down
Ed Miliband as Chancellor? Don't rule it out.
@JeremyWarnerUK on why Andy Burnham may be tempted to hand one of the biggest jobs in government to Labour's most influential minister 👇
https://t.co/lshnNCG4lM
A senior Labour source has said Andy Burnham would be Labour’s first female prime minister in “all but sex”.
If Burnham is worried about gender optics, @suzanne_moore has the solution ⬇️
https://t.co/WAJ6olHOti
"If Miliband became chancellor, we would all pay and our children would be left with the mess."
Read why @TomTugendhat thinks Ed Miliband would be a bad choice for chancellor here ⬇️
https://t.co/VZHFLYcfoS
Killers, rapists and sex offenders will be among up to 6,000 criminals freed early from jail from September, The Telegraph can reveal.
🔗: https://t.co/hZUojkgmpz
Could Andy Burnham's devolution agenda create more Sadiq Khans?
Annabel Denham thinks Britain's regional mayor model has delivered bureaucracy, blurred accountability and growing demands on Westminster.
Read her take in full here ⤵️
https://t.co/qMQg6igXyV
Restore Britain’s five step plan to end the welfare scam.
Number one.
No benefits for foreigners. Saves billions and billions every year. If a Somalian family is living on benefits in social housing funded by the British taxpayer, I wish them well. In Somalia. No discussion needed. Huge savings to be had.
Second.
The ballooning welfare bill is not solely down to foreign nationals, far from it. There are a huge number of British people taking the mick. The system is there for the taking, and they are doing exactly that. Claiming some disability or another, when there is evidently nothing wrong.
Face-to-face assessments are vital, regular and vigorous.
- Dedicated welfare fraud investigation units.
- Proper data-sharing between HMRC, DWP and local authorities.
- Automatic recovery of fraudulent claims from future earnings.
And actually through doing this, we can give proper support to those British men and women who genuinely need it. A fair, robust and compassionate approach.
Third.
A life on benefits for a healthy individual is NOT acceptable. If you can work, you must work. A few months to find a desired job is reasonable, but after that - if you want your benefit money, you will be put to work.
That is Restore Britain’s position.
Litter picking, street cleaning, gardening, scraping chewing gum off the pavement. Whatever. If it needs doing and you want the money, you’re doing it.
Random drug tests for those on benefits - if you’re getting high, the benefits stop.
Tough love.
Next.
Reintroduce the two child cap. Hardworking British parents shouldn’t have to subsidise indolence.
If you want more children, get a job.
Finally.
Tax cuts.
Raise the thresholds. Make it so that going back to work is financially rewarding. Obviously. Reward hard work, and people will do more of it. If people feel like going into work is actually worth it, they will do it. It must never pay to sit on benefits.
More training, more apprenticeships. A skilled and active workforce. Contributing, not taking. That is what we need.
A Restore Britain Government will ensure no household receives more in out-of-work benefits than the equivalent working family earns after tax.
The welfare system should protect those who cannot work, support those who fall on hard times, and help people back into employment as quickly as possible.
It should never be more attractive than work.
Restore Britain will reward contribution and ambition, not indolence and entitlement.
End the welfare scam, slash the bill, crush inflation.
The Government is consulting on proposals to force social media and video-sharing firms to promote the content of “public service broadcasters”, like the BBC and Channel 4, above everybody else's.
@AllisterHeath says it will have chilling effects on free expression ⤵️
https://t.co/E9RIQI9xwP
Work? Taxed to oblivion
Sell? Taxed to oblivion
Buy? Taxed to oblivion
Die? Taxed to oblivion
And now… save? Taxed to oblivion
There is no point doing the right thing any more in the UK.