Tory leadership: Sunak builds lead as Tugendhat drops out July 18, 2022 Rishi Sunak has built a strong lead in the in the third round of voting in the Tory leadership contest, with Tom Tugendhat dropping out. Sunak got 115 votes from Tory MPs, followed by Penny Mordaunt on 82, Liz Truss on 71, Kemi Badenoch on 58 and Tugendhat on 31. The vote saw Sunak, Truss [...]
Nearly 900 Tube journeys delayed in three years due to late drivers July 18, 2022 Almost 900 Tube journeys were delayed between 2019 and 2022 as a result of drivers turning up late to work, new Transport for London (TfL) figures have revealed. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request, made by the free market TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) think tank, found 894 Tube rides were late by at least two minutes [...]
Sky News cancels Tory leaders debate after Sunak and Truss pull out July 18, 2022 Sky News has cancelled the third Tory leadership debate planned for tomorrow, after frontrunners Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss today said they would not participate. It comes after a bruising ITV debate last night, which saw candidates launch vicious attacks on each other for 60 minutes. The clashes were particularly heated between Sunak, Truss and [...]
Tory leadership race descends into all out war in televised debate July 17, 2022 The Conservative leadership race descended further into vicious mudslinging today as the remaining five candidates tore shreds off each other for 60 minutes in a televised debate. Frontrunners Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss had a number of bruising encounters, with the ex-chancellor accusing the foreign secretary of peddling “something for nothing economics” that are closer [...]
Sunak call to slash all EU rules by 2024 contradicted by the Treasury July 17, 2022 Rishi Sunak’s new promise to slash all retained EU regulations by 2024 has been contradicted by a leaked Treasury document today saying this would not be possible. Sunak wrote in the Sunday Telegraph today that he will have “scrapped or reformed all of the EU law, red tape and bureaucracy that is still on our [...]
Tory leadership race: Tugendhat vows to strip Met of counter-terrorism role July 17, 2022 Tory leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat has vowed to break up the Metropolitan Police if elected by taking away the force’s responsibilities for counter-terrorism. Tugendhat said today that he would instead hand these powers to the National Crime Agency (NCA) – the UK’s agency responsible for things like organised crime, economic crime, cyber crime and human [...]
Union boss says crippling rail strikes to go ahead as no one is ‘coming to the table’ July 17, 2022 Crippling rail strikes are set to go ahead in just two weeks as train company bosses are not “coming to the table”, according to the head of the UK train drivers’ union. Mick Whelan, general secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (Aslef) union, said “when train drivers don’t come to work, [...]
Tory leadership: Raab hits out at Truss’ record as Treasury minister July 17, 2022 Dominic Raab has questioned the record of Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss when she worked as a Treasury minister in response to her attacks on Rishi Sunak. The Deputy Prime Minister, a Sunak supporter, said “people can see whether spending and headcount in the civil service went up or down” when Truss worked as chief [...]
Exclusive: Starmer says UK can be better off outside EU than inside July 16, 2022 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has told City A.M. that the UK can have a better economic future outside the EU than inside if the government slashes post-Brexit red tape and diverges from Brussels’ regulations. Starmer, formerly a staunch Remainer and advocate of a second referendum, said this can only be done through greater “flexibility” [...]
Tory leadership: Sunak and Mordaunt storm out to the front as Braverman drops out July 14, 2022 Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt have consolidated themselves as the top two frontrunners for the Tory leadership race as Suella Braverman drops out in the second vote. Sunak picked up 101 votes from his fellow Tory MPs, while Mordaunt picked up 83 and foreign secretary Liz Truss remained in third place on 64. Kemi Badenoch [...]
