Yvette Cooper to 'look at' proscribing EDL under terror laws after Southport riots
Yvette Cooper to 'look at' proscribing EDL under terror laws after Southport riots
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Yvette Cooper will look at whether to proscribe the English Defence League a terror group following the riot in Southport, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has claimed.
Rayner said: “We have laws and we have proscribed groups and we do look at that and it is reviewed regularly.
"So I’m sure that that will be something that the Home Secretary will be looking at as part of the normal course of what we do and the intelligence that we have.
“But I think the bigger issue is about taking on the minority of people that have got thuggish behaviour, that actually that’s not our British values.”
Rayner added: “The inciting of violence and violence on the street has absolutely no place in our democracy, and we have to crack down on those that perpetuate violence and spread it within our communities.”
Lord Frost claims just ONE Tory candidate is speaking 'honestly'
Lord Frost speaks at PopConPAVeteran Brexiteer, Lord Frost has revealed his Conservative leadership candidate to replace Rishi Sunak.
Frost said that only Robert Jenrick has the ability to deal with the party’s problems.
He suggests that Jenrick has been the first with a sensible manifesto.
He wrote in The Telegraph: "He also sets out a way forward: a sovereign people and a sovereign country that can act decisively; more housebuilding; proper reliable cheap energy instead of the damage of the current net-zero model; a safety-net welfare state which doesn’t discourage growth and enterprise; and as he puts it, a ‘small state that works, not a big one that fails’."
Labour accused of 'shredding' housing targets in London
Angela Rayner said the housebuilding goal for London has been cut by 20,000 homes
PAThe Tory Party claim that Labour has “shredded” housing targets in London where homes are most needed.
Angela Rayner said the housebuilding goal for London has been cut by 20,000 homes.
However, North East and North West England will see a 99 per cent and 75 per cent increase in new home targets respectively.
Keir Starmer considers reversing Tory-backed plan to increase salary threshold for migrant spouses
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has halted plans to increase the threshold further to £38,700 next year
PAThe income threshold required to bring a foreign partner to the UK was previously raised from £18,600 to £29,000 earlier this year in order to reduce net migration by around 300,000.
However, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has halted plans to increase the threshold further to £38,700 next year.
In a statement to the Commons, she said the Government needed to “balance a respect for family life whilst also ensuring the economic wellbeing of the UK is maintained”.
Rachel Reeves plots 'great betrayal' as she admits 'I will have to raise taxes' in October budget
Rachel Reeves has confirmed she will have to raise taxes in the upcoming autumn budget despite certain Labour manifesto pledges.
In order to build the economy, she signalled that “difficult decisions” would be made to raise money.
Jeremy Hunt, the former chancellor has accused Labour of plotting a “great tax betrayal” and claimed that “Labour were planning tax rises all along - they just didn’t have the courage to tell you”.
Writing on the Conservative Home website today, he said: “The statement by the Chancellor on Monday was an exercise designed to cover up the great tax betrayal coming in the Autumn Budget.
“This week they revealed how they are planning to get away with it. We will not let them.”
'Delighted!' Boris Johnson shares cover of tell-all memoir Unleashed
I’m delighted to share the cover for UNLEASHED and I’m looking forward to sharing the book with you when it is published this October.
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) July 31, 2024
Pre-order here: https://t.co/AsjIEPvUQr pic.twitter.com/BQOppaLBma
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has shared the cover of his tell-all memoir Unleashed.
Johnson, 60, features heavily on the front cover.
The former Prime Minister was pictured in black-and-white.
Unleashed will hit the shelves on October 10.
Priti Patel ‘best-placed’ to take on Farage as Reform bigwig backs bid
Priti Patel is “best-placed” to take on Nigel Farage as a senior figure from Reform UK surprisingly backs the ex-Home Secretary’s leadership bid, GB News has been told.
Patel, who first got stuck into Eurosceptic politics in the late 1990s with the Referendum Party, is being tipped as the Conservative candidate to “heal” the Tories with sights of thwarting the threat from Reform.
A former No10 adviser told GB News: “Priti is really well-placed to win over the Right.
“She will have the understanding of when to take on Nigel and when they botch can take on Labour.
“Other candidates might look to do some mudslinging. That could get really messy.”
Badenoch decries 'bullying' hit-job: 'They covered up their own failures'
Kemi BadenochPATory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has rejected allegations that she bullied civil servants while serving as Business Secretary.
Badenoch said: “Let’s be clear: these allegations are smears from former staff who I sacked after they were accused of bullying behaviour, lying about other colleagues to cover up their own failures and general gross incompetence.”
Home Sec: 'Violent thugs' should show respect Southport police
Brave police, firefighters & paramedics saved lives in the horrific Southport attack.
— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) July 31, 2024
Total disgrace those same emergency services were attacked & officers injured by violent thugs from out of town.
Grieving community & emergency services deserve all our support & respect.
'We'll pay more taxes to fund NHS,' public say
The British public is more than happy to pay more in tax to fund the NHS, fresh polling has shown.
Savanta, who spoke to 2,192 UK adults between July 26 and 28, revealed 64 per cent would happily pay more in tax to fund a pay rise for nurses.
A net figure of 11 per cent would pay more to recruit and train police officers, with the figure dropping to seven per cent among state school teachers.
However, the British public is less likely to support paying more tax for infrastructure projects.
A negative rating, -2 per cent, was registered when respondents were asked to fund large infrastructure projects.
Nigel Farage won't vote for Labour's 'cruel' plan to end winter fuel payments
Nigel Farage was speaking at a Reform UK conference PA Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has revealed he will not vote for Labour's "cruel" plan to end winter fuel payments.
The Clacton MP told GB News: “I have to say I think it’s rather a cruel thing to do, and I certainly won’t be voting for it as and when I get the opportunity.
“There were times in the past where maybe the argument was that it wasn’t necessary and it had been given as a bribe. But it’s almost like Labour are saying, ‘well, we don’t care about the pensioners, because they’re not going to vote for us anyway’.
“That money that could have gone to pensioners has gone for massive public sector pay rises, including over 22 per cent for junior doctors. This is a very cynical thing she did.”
'Who cares?!' Reform UK slaps down Conservative leadership contenders as populist party pose lethal threat to 'utterly toxic' Tories
Senior Reform UK figures have slapped down Conservative leadership contenders as the populist party continues to pose a lethal threat to the Tory Party.
Six Tory MPs have received enough support to run in the race to replace Rishi Sunak, with ex-Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch emerging as an early frontrunner.
Despite a focus on uniting the Conservative Party and taking on Reform UK, figures from the populist party were far from convinced by any of the candidates.
Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice told GB News: “Who are they? Most voters up and down the country won’t recognise the names of most of those candidates."
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