Rishi Sunak now faces a crunch week when the latest inflation figures are due to be published, followed by another likely increase to interest rates, piling on yet more misery for homeowner
was following a team of immigration enforcement officers as they carried out a dawn raid on illegal migrants living in Hounslow, West London.
The row spilled out into the public arena in a way that even the bitter feud between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had never quite managed to.about whether it would have been necessary to overrule the House of Lords’s vetting committee on the issue of handing out peerages to four Tory MPs.Sir Bernard JenkinThe source of the story is unknown, but Conservative MPs were quick to point the finger at the Johnson camp, whom they accused of “lobbing hand grenades” in a bid to undermine the committee.
A former Cabinet minister went further, branding Mr Johnson as a “busted flush”. But the senior Tory warned that his departure was unlikely to relieve the pressure on the Prime Minister.. “That’s mainly because everyone is worried about the election rather than having Boris in the wings.” The uptick in small boat crossings by migrants this week thanks in large part to the weather, is also threatening to severely undermine his vow to “Stop the Boats”.
But Labour has come under fresh scrutiny after Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves last week rowed back on the party’s promise to invest £28bn a year in green industries after the next election. It will now “ramp up” spending from 2027, rather than bring it in immediately from 2024.
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