Rayner says vote on welfare invoice will go forward on Tuesday
Stride asks if Rayner can guarantee MPs the vote will go forward on Tuesday.
Rayner replies: “We’ll go forward on Tuesday.”
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PMQs – snap verdict
At PMQs Angela Rayner defended the welfare cuts invoice and stated that the vote on it will go forward, as deliberate, on Tuesday subsequent week, regardless of rising hypothesis that minister must postpone. Whereas it will be unfair to explain these feedback as nugatory, they had been additionally about as devoid of significance as any political discourse may be. That’s as a result of Rayner was simply delivering “the road”.
PMQs will get fascinating when politicians transcend the road, or it begins to shift. However Rayner was defending the invoice with a script that may be very acquainted, and wouldn’t have been misplaced being deployed by a loyal backbencher within the 6.50 slot on the At the moment programme. She definitely didn’t put in passionate, compelling defence of the invoice. However there was nothing in what she stated that implied she needs to see it fail. Possibly she does (most Labour MPs along with her politics appear to assume that method), and perhaps Mel Stride was proper to say she was defending a coverage she didn’t personally assist. But when that’s the case, Rayner coated it up fairly efficiently.
And Rayner saying the vote will go forward doesn’t imply it would. Nevertheless it doesn’t imply it received’t both. It simply signifies that, at this level, No 10 has not determined to drag the talk. It’s a binary problem, and in conditions like this the federal government all the time has to maintain saying it’s sticking to the plan till the second involves introduced that it isn’t. Simply ask Michael Gove. In December 2018 he advised the At the moment programme {that a} vote on Theresa Might’s Brexit invoice was “undoubtedly, 100% going to occur” – just for the vote to be deserted a couple of hours later.
Maybe probably the most fascinating factor we discovered in relation to the welfare invoice was that Labour MPs against it didn’t need to have that argument out at PMQs. Debbie Abrahams is the second signatory within the reasoned modification, and as chair of the work and pensions committee that is her specialist topic. She had a query, however she requested about one thing else. As did Rebecca Lengthy-Bailey, Rayner’s former flatmate and runner-up within the management contest received by Keir Starmer. She has signed the reasoned modification, however didn’t convey it up at PMQs.
Rayner, in her exchanges with Stride and elsewhere throughout PMQs, appeared over-reliant on the ‘You Tories had been garbage’ response to any complaints in regards to the authorities’s report. However that didn’t appear to matter a lot as a result of Stride’s assault traces had been predicatable and weak to a reasonably apparent comeback. Adam Bienkov from Byline Occasions summed it up fairly effectively like this.
Conservative Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride, whose get together raised taxes to report ranges and presided over a surge in welfare prices, accuses the federal government of planning to lift taxes and improve welfare prices #pmqs
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Jeremy Corbyn, the previous Labour chief, requested the ultimate query. He stated the UK shouldn’t be promoting F-35 elements to Israel provided that these jets had been used to assault Gaza. And he requested if Rayner would again his invoice for a public inquiry into the UK’s complicity with Israeli struggle crimes.
Rayner stated Israel’s latest actions in Gaza had been “appalling”. However she stated it was for worldwide courts to find out when genocide has taken place, not governments.
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Rayner says the Palestine Motion assault at Brize Norton was “disgraceful”. However she says the try by Reform UK accountable the feminine officer commanding the bottom was “much more disgraceful”. They need to have been blaming the criminals, not “an completed girl who has served her nation”, Raynerr says.
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Neil O’Brien (Con) says native persons are against the plan to broaden the boundaires of Leicester’s native authority.
Rayner says what native individuals didn’t need was the final authorities.
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Kanishka Narayan (Lab) accuses Reform UK of proritising the pursuits of millionaires with its newest coverage, the Britannia card.
Rayner says Nigel Farage is demanding “billions extra in unfunded tax cuts for the very richest” whereas voting towards higher sick pay for low earners.
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Oliver Dowden, who used to reply to questions from Rayner when he was deputy PM, says it’s good to be asking her a query once more. He asks what the federal government is doing to cease homes being reworked into homes of a number of occupation.
Rayner says councils have powers to take care of these functions.
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Rayner says Kemi Badenoch stated lately she was getting higher week by week. She jokes that Badenoch has achieved that during the last two weeks by getting Chris Philp and Mel Stride to exchange her. However she has not chosen Robert Jenrick, Rayner says.
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Cameron Thomas (Lib Dem) asks in regards to the nuclear take a look at veterans. He asks if Rayner will attend a gathering to debate applicable compensation.
Rayner says the veterans minister will attend a meetting on this.
Earlier the Labour MP Rebecca Lengthy-Bailey additionally requested about this problem, saying the veterans deserved “solutions, justice and an apology”. She cited final evening’s Newsnight report on this problem
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James MacCleary (Lib Dem) asks what the federal government is doing to handle the staffing drawback in nurseries.
Rayner says the federal government is investing within the sector.
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Natasha Irons (Lab) asks about youth centres, and the closure of a provision in Croydon. Youth centres ought to get statutory safety, she says.
Rayner says the final authorities was accountable. This authorities is making totally different selections, she says.
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Gavin Robinson, the DUP chief, asks Rayner to sentence the latest dysfunction in Northern Eire. Does Rayner agree the Windsor framework is stopping the federal government laws for border controls on a UK-wide foundation.
Rayner says the Windsor framework addressed longstanding points. The federal government is interesting points referring to immigration regulation. It needs immigration regulation to indicate on a UK-wide foundation, she says.
Robinson was referring to this case.
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Debbie Abrahams (Lab) asks if the federal government will repair the reasonably priced housing disaster.
Rayner says Abrahams is true to lift this problem.
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Daisy Cooper, the deputy Lib Dem chief, says her get together is against the welfare invoice. The federal government could need to push it via with Tory assist, she claims.
She asks for an assurance that these reforms is not going to be applied, if the invoice passes, till the assessment of the carers’ allowance scandal has concluded.
Rayner defends the invoice, however doesn’t deal with the query.
Cooper says the federal government has reportedly agreed that President Trump’s state go to will happen in September. Will the federal government leverage that go to to get assurances for Ukraine?
Rayner says the federal government is actually happy Trump is coming for a second state go to.
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Joe Morris (Lab) asks a couple of faculty in his Hexham group that has needed to shut due to crumbling concrete.
Rayner says this was one of many issues left by the final authorities.
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Stride asks if Rayner is embarrassed to be defending insurance policies she doesn’t assist.
Rayner says it’s embarrassing that the Tories flip up each week and don’t apologise for his or her report.
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