David Lammy tells James Cartlidge to ‘get a grip’ throughout PMQs conflict
Cartlidge asks the query once more.
Lammy says: “Get a grip man.” He says he’s the justice secretary, and he says the Kebatu launch is being investigated. He says there have been unintentional releases when Cartlidge was a justice minister. However Cartlidge didn’t apologise, he says.
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Daisy Cooper, the deputy Lib Dem chief, says the federal government has not responded to the Lib Dems’ name for an inquiry into Elon Musk’s intereference in British democracy. She asks what the federal government is doing to guard the democratic course of.
Lammy says the federal government is addressing these threats.
Cooper asks if the federal government will use to funds to impose an additional tax on banks.
Lammy says the federal government will announce its funds plans on funds days.
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The Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, calls a distinct MP. There are claims that Cartlidge has yet one more query. Hoyle at first thinks he has made a mistake, however then realises, or is instructed, he hasn’t.
Lammy says Cartlidge can not even depend.
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Cartlidge asks his query once more.
Lammy says prisons had been a multitude beneath the Tories.
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Cartlidge asks the query once more – have there been any extra inadvertent releases.
Lammy claims he has answered the query. He says, when he was in opposition, he did so much higher than this.
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David Lammy tells James Cartlidge to ‘get a grip’ throughout PMQs conflict
Cartlidge asks the query once more.
Lammy says: “Get a grip man.” He says he’s the justice secretary, and he says the Kebatu launch is being investigated. He says there have been unintentional releases when Cartlidge was a justice minister. However Cartlidge didn’t apologise, he says.
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Cartlidge asks if every other asylum seekers have been by chance launched since Kebatu was launched.
Lammy says he has put in place the hardest checks for prisons they’ve ever had in prisons.
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Cartlidge says he’s shocked Lammy didn’t apologise.
Lammy says he has simply defined that he did.
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James Cartlidge says in a single day the daddy of the lady attacked in Epping by an asylum seeker, Hadush Kebatu, has stated he didn’t obtain an apology after the attacker was inadvertently launched. He refers back to the father’s interview on ITV.
(Kemi Badenoch will not be right here, however she continues to be writing the script.)
Lammy says he apologised when he was making an announcement to MPs on this.
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Connor Rand (Lab) says Lammy is the primary black individual to reply PMQs.
He asks about an eight-year-old constituent who’s preventing most cancers.
Lammy thanks Rand for his remark, however he says Diane Abbott and Kemi Badenoch have each been trailblazers within the Commons.
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David Lammy begins by saying the PM is in Brazil.
He says the ideas of all MPs are nonetheless with the victims of the appalling assaults in Huntingdon and Peterborough, the place, he says, he was at college for seven years.
He says is Remembrance Sunday this weekend.
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The asylum seeker who re-entered the UK by small boat after being returned to France beneath the federal government’s “one in, one out” deal has been faraway from the nation once more, the house secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has confirmed.
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Lammy faces Cartlidge at PMQs
PMQs is beginning very quickly.
David Lammy, the deputy PM, is standing in for Keir Starmer, who’s on his option to Cop30. And James Cartlidge, the shadow defence secretary, is deputising for Kemi Badenoch.
Right here is the record of MPs all the way down to ask a query.
PMQs {Photograph}: HoCShare
Wes Streeting says Mamdani’s victory has ‘classes for progressives the world over’
Zohran Mamdani’s politics are to the left of Keir Starmer’s Labour, and he isn’t well-liked with Donald Trump (which whom Starmer is making an attempt very arduous to keep up good relations), and these elements most likely assist to clarify why Bridget Phillipson, the schooling secretary, tried to keep away from saying something about his victory when she was on Sky Information this morning.
Phillipson stated she didn’t observe American politics notably carefully, and solely saved up with the “massive tales”. Sophy Ridge replied: “Some would possibly say this can be a massive story.”
However Wes Streeting, the well being secretary, did welcome Mamdani’s victory, saying it contained classes for progressives all over the world.
Inspirational marketing campaign and victory for @ZohranKMamdani in NYC. Classes for progressives the world over.
However this tweet has prompted a harsh response from Owen Jones, the Guardian columnist and leftwing activst who has deserted Labour as a result of he views it as too rightwing. He says anybody like Mamdani would have been “purged and smeared” if that they had tried to get on in Keir Starmer’s celebration.
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Shona Robison calls for ‘pressing’ talks with Reeves over fears 2p earnings tax rise would minimize Scotland’s block grant by £1bn
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Libby Brooks is the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent.
Scotland’s finance secretary Shona Robison has referred to as for “pressing engagement” with the UK chancellor after Rachel Reeves flagged up the prospect of tax rises yesterday.
Robison stated Scotland “should not be left as an afterthought” within the funds after the unbiased Fraser of Allander Institute estimated {that a} 2p within the pound improve within the primary price of UK earnings tax would result in a minimize of about £1bn in Scotland’s block grant subsequent 12 months.
Earnings tax is devolved, so an increase in UK charges doesn’t have an effect on Scottish taxpayers’ payments immediately. However the rise will impression the block grant adjustment, the mechanism used to regulate the UK authorities’s block grant to devolved administrations to account for the switch of tax and welfare powers.
If the UK authorities raises charges, then a non-devolved system would have raised more cash – and so the deduction is bigger.
Robison stated:
We’re calling on the UK authorities’s autumn funds to ship extra funding for these public companies, infrastructure, and price of dwelling assist – together with by abolishing the two-child restrict in common credit score.
Scotland has been short-changed previously, and we should not be left as an afterthought within the UK authorities’s funds. Beneath the present preparations Scotland has to attend and see what impression the chancellor’s selections may have for us.
Relations with the Treasury are already fraught’ Robison has already delayed Holyrood’s funds into January due to the late timing of th UK funds giving her “inadequate time to reply” earlier than the tip of the 12 months and referred to as it “deeply disappointing” that the Treasury failed to tell Scottish ministers of the date earlier than it was introduced publicly.
Robison stated:
Not too long ago the chancellor admitted that Brexit has broken the financial system. Brexit has had a massively unfavorable impression on public spending, lowering the obtainable funding for public companies by round £30bn a 12 months. It’s hardly a coincidence that it’s steered that the chancellor is seeking to deal with a attainable £30bn shortfall in her autumn assertion.
The UK authorities must observe their recognition of the hurt of Brexit to its logical conclusion and recognise that it’s only by rejoining the EU and the European single market that they will halt ache being inflicted on the financial system and public companies.
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Preserving individuals in work ought to contain efforts to “rehumanise” the office, Sir Charlie Mayfield has stated.
In an interview on the Right this moment programme, Mayfield, who produced the Maintain Britain Working evaluation for the federal government, stated that if an employer doesn’t contact an worker who’s off sick, it isn’t as a result of they’re “evil” or “uncaring”, however slightly that they’re “afraid” that the contact can be triggering or unwelcome.
Mayfield defined:
We do need to type this ‘concern drawback’, and … [‘fit notes’, the notes from a GP saying a worker is ill] act like a little bit of a firewall between you and the worker and the employer.
I’ve had employers saying to me: ‘Individuals are misplaced to us when that occurs,’ and, in fact, whenever you’re speaking about human well being it’s clearly very private, however you don’t resolve that by means of extra distance – you resolve it by leaning in and having conversations and determining what’s a wise and cheap and acceptable response that may assist anyone to get again into work.
And in some methods, all we have to do is determine: how will we rehumanise the office such that these conversations occur extra naturally and extra simply? Whereas in the intervening time, there are elements of the system which successfully militate in opposition to it.
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James Cartlidge to face in for Badenoch at PMQs, as Tories welcome delay in Chagos Islands deal vote
James Cartlidge, the shadow defence secretary, will deputise for Kemi Badenoch at PMQs, Sky Information stories.
He could properly ask David Lammy in regards to the treaty giving sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Yesterday he welcomed the truth that a Lords vote on the invoice implementing the deal has been postponed due to Tory opposition. PA Media defined the main points in a narrative filed final night time. PA stated:
A regulation enabling the UK handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius faces a delay after a Westminster spat that noticed Tory critics accused of being “reckless and deeply cynical” in making an attempt to wreck the controversial deal.
In an indication of the continued tensions over the settlement, overseas minister Jenny Chapman lambasted the Conservatives for placing Britain’s nationwide safety in danger and utilizing the Chagossian individuals for their very own ends having “systematically disregarded” them when in authorities.
Hitting again, her Tory counterpart Lord Callanan dismissed her claims as “nonsense” and levelled the cost of “strategic capitulation” on the authorities.
The tetchy exchanges got here because the Lords debated the Diego Garcia army base and British Indian Ocean Territory invoice, with members of the Chagossian neighborhood trying on.
In an uncommon transfer forward of the invoice’s second studying debate within the Lords, the Tories put down an modification to the committal movement, which permits the draft regulation to proceed to detailed scrutiny at committee stage, demanding a 30-day session with the Chagossian neighborhood.
Within the face of a threatened defeat, the federal government pulled the process, successfully stalling the passage of the invoice.
Opening the talk, Chapman instructed friends that the laws “is significant for the safety of our nation”.
However whereas proposals to probe the federal government and amend the laws had been welcome, she stated: “These which can be designed to wreck usually are not in regards to the welfare of a neighborhood, however a cynical tactic of delay and disruption.”
Callanan stated the Tory modification was not meant to wreck the invoice, and would simply guarantee Chagossians had been consulted.
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31% of ladies say they suffered some type of abuse as a toddler, ONS report says
Almost a 3rd of ladies in England and Wales (31.5%) are estimated to have skilled some type of abuse as a toddler, together with simply over 1 / 4 of males (26.4%), PA Media stories. PA says:
The estimates have been revealed by the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) and are the primary of their type to make use of an up to date definition of abuse that features emotional, bodily or sexual abuse in addition to neglect.
A complete of 13.6 million individuals aged 18 years and over (29.0%) in England and Wales are prone to have skilled “any abuse” earlier than the age of 18, the figures present.
Round 7.5 million ladies and 6.1 million males skilled any abuse, with prevalence larger for girls throughout every kind besides bodily abuse, the place there was “no important distinction”, the ONS stated.
Proportion of adults who says they suffered some type of abuse as a toddler {Photograph}: ONSShare
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British leftwingers elated by Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York, with some saying it has classes for Labour
Leftwingers in UK politics have been cheered by the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York. Right here is a few of the response.
That is from Sadiq Khan, the Labour mayor of London, who, like Mamdani, is the primary Muslim to be mayor of the town he governs and who, like Mamdani, has attracted explicit hostility from Donald Trump.
New Yorkers confronted a transparent alternative – between hope and concern – and identical to we’ve seen in London – hope gained.
Big congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani on his historic marketing campaign.
Zack Polanski, the Inexperienced celebration chief, whose politics and campaigning type have been in comparison with Mamdani’s, instructed Sky Information that the brand new New York mayor was “a lot cooler than I’m”. However he stated he thought they shared “the identical relentless give attention to inequality”.
The Labour MP Clive Lewis says his celebration ought to search inspiration from Mamdani’s win.
Mamdani’s win in New York exhibits braveness & conviction nonetheless minimize by means of.
He stood as much as concern & company energy and gained.
There’s a lesson right here for us: you don’t beat cynicism by managing decline, however by giving individuals one thing price believing in.
One other Labour MP, Luke Charters, says Mamdani has proven has rightwing populism may be defeated.
Mamdani’s victory exhibits us how we are able to defeat right-wing populism right here within the UK: ship actual options, not empty slogans.
The Labour MP Uma Kumaran says Mamdani’s victory exhibits hope has overwhelmed hate.
From London to New York, Congratulations @ZohranKMamdani!
Our nice capital cities have chosen hope and progressive imaginative and prescient and gained
I spoke to the New York Instances final week in regards to the politics of hope over hate
Wishing you and your staff all the perfect
Jeremy Corbyn, the previous Labour chief who now sits as an unbiased and who is likely one of the six pro-Gaza MPs within the Impartial Alliance, says Mamdani gained a seismic victory.
Congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani!
You ignited a grassroots marketing campaign, constructed on the novel thought that everybody deserves to stay in dignity.
It is a seismic victory — not just for the individuals of New York, however for all those that consider that humanity & hope can prevail.
Ayoub Khan, one other Impartial Alliance MP, has says Mamdani’s win has world significance.
Big congratulations to New Yorkers and particularly to Mamdani! A brand new daybreak breaks as fact and unity overcome lies and division. The echo chambers couldn’t maintain again the individuals’s voice. This victory of righteousness will unfold throughout the entire globe!
That is from Shockat Adam, who can be an Independence Alliance MP.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory sends a transparent message that too many neglect: Politics begins with individuals. At all times.
Congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani and all who stand for social justice, equality, and other people pushed change.
And Zarah Sultana, who was elected as a Labour MP final 12 months however who’s now within the Impartial Alliance and is forming a brand new leftwing celebration with Corbyn, has posted this on social media.
Amy Sedghi has extra response on our US politics stay weblog.
UPDATE: Whereas there are similarities between Sadiq Khan and Zohran Mamdani, there are additionally appreciable variations, and Khan is just not a leftwinger within the sense that folks like Corbyn and Polanski are. Sunder Katwala, director of the British Future thinktank, has posted a very good thread on Bluesky evaluating the 2 mayors.
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David Lammy to take PMQs after Reeves refuses to rule out tax rises in funds
Good morning. David Lammy will get his first outing at PMQs at the moment as deputy prime minister, as a result of Keir Starmer is off to the Cop30 local weather convention in Brazil. Meaning he may have the job of coping with all of the questions raised by Rachel Reeves’s speech yesterday that got here near confirming earnings tax will rise within the funds.
Whereas there’s appreciable controversy about what measures the funds ought to comprise, in an uncommon developments leftwing and rightwing thinktanks have joined as much as say that the construction of the tax system must be reformed. Olivia Konotey-Ahulu has the story.
The initiative has been led by the Centre for the Evaluation of Taxation (CenTax), a thinktank. Its director, Arun Advani, says:
The UK’s tax code is riddled with inconsistencies and distortions that discourage funding, penalise work and maintain again productiveness. There may be widespread settlement on the necessity for correct reform. The upcoming Funds is a chance for the chancellor to have a look at the taxsystem as an entire, and be sure that regardless of the complete tax take, any adjustments are additionally serving her progress mission.
Two necessary stories have been revealed in a single day. As Richard Partington stories, the Maintain Britain Working evaluation says companies must play a extra central position in lowering health-related worklessness.
And, as Richard Adams stories, a evaluation of England’s curriculum has really useful lowering the quantity of content material and emphasis on exams and as an alternative focusing extra on life expertise and “enrichment”.
I will likely be masking response to each of these.
Right here is the agenda for the day.
Morning: Kemi Badenoch is on a go to in north-east Scotland with Russell Findlay, the Scottish Conservative chief.
Midday: David Lammy, the deputy PM, takes PMQs for the primary time, as a result of Keir Starmer is travelling to the Cop30 local weather convention in Brazil. The Tories have stated but who will deputise for Badenoch.
After 12.30pm: MPs debate the employment rights invoice, with the federal government planning to vote down amendments to the invoice handed by the Lords final week. It’s the newest spherical of “ping pong” earlier than the invoice clears parliament.
5.30pm: Richard Tice, the Reform UK deputy chief, offers a speech masking the celebration’s plans to scale back the price of public sector pensions.
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