Rishi Sunak to launch Tory local election campaign amid Waspi women row – UK politics live
Prime minister will be in Derbyshire and certain to be questioned over cost of Waspi compensationRishi Sunak is planning to launch the Conservative party’s local election campaign in Derbyshire today.The party is facing the expectation of poor results on 2 May, due to a combination of the Sunak government’s unpopularity – Labour is broadly 20 points ahead in polling – and that Conservatives performed comparatively well when the same seats were contested in 2021, after the elections were delayed for a year due to Covid restrictions.It has emerged that home secretary James Cleverly spent £165,561 chartering a private jet for a one-day round trip to Rwanda to sign Rishi Sunak’s deportation deal in Kigali.Kent council is the latest to warn that it is running out of cash.The public accounts committee has warned morale in the civil service is being hit by chronic low pay.Also being hit by the cost of living crisis: nurses. Six in 10 nurses in England are having to turn to credit or savings due to low pay.Keir Starmer has unexpectedly inserted himself into a row about the new men’s England football kit, calling for it to be scrapped. Lee Anderson has described the kit as “virtue-signalling woke nonsense” because a small cross design on the back of the neck isn’t the correct colour for the St George’s Cross. Continue reading...
Prime minister will be in Derbyshire and certain to be questioned over cost of Waspi compensation
Rishi Sunak is planning to launch the Conservative party’s local election campaign in Derbyshire today.
The party is facing the expectation of poor results on 2 May, due to a combination of the Sunak government’s unpopularity – Labour is broadly 20 points ahead in polling – and that Conservatives performed comparatively well when the same seats were contested in 2021, after the elections were delayed for a year due to Covid restrictions.
It has emerged that home secretary James Cleverly spent £165,561 chartering a private jet for a one-day round trip to Rwanda to sign Rishi Sunak’s deportation deal in Kigali.
Kent council is the latest to warn that it is running out of cash.
The public accounts committee has warned morale in the civil service is being hit by chronic low pay.
Also being hit by the cost of living crisis: nurses. Six in 10 nurses in England are having to turn to credit or savings due to low pay.
Keir Starmer has unexpectedly inserted himself into a row about the new men’s England football kit, calling for it to be scrapped. Lee Anderson has described the kit as “virtue-signalling woke nonsense” because a small cross design on the back of the neck isn’t the correct colour for the St George’s Cross. Continue reading...
