10 wildest comments from members of Kemi Badenoch’s new shadow cabinet
From the offensive to the bizarre
‘Liz Truss is talking about tax cuts that will help low-income households to the tune of £1 a week and yet it would help a household like mine to the tune of £30 a week. It’s simply not right.’
‘The UK has serious problems of skills and low productivity, but they require policies. The idiotic worker-bashing comments by Liz Truss make headlines but offer no analysis of the problems or durable solutions.’
The report, entitled ‘Back to Black’, which was uncovered by TalkTV, also proposed cuts to the pensions, education and communities budgets as part of push to shrink the size of the state under the then Labour government.
‘For all the progress our country has made, largely under Labour governments, there are still too many disabled people of all ages who are locked out of everyday life’
‘There has been a major shakeup of directors too, with Andrew Cole and Mark Schneider, who set up GB News’ parent company last February, resigning as directors and selling their stakes.’
Absence has come to define the Johnson premiership.
The pay rise came after the union backed industrial action for check-in staff and a deal for them was agreed after tough negotiations.
Among the hardest hit groups will be pensioners, with 86.4% of pensioner couples expected to fall into fuel poverty, along with 90.4% of lone parents with two or more children.
Burnham described his announcement as ‘a glimmer of light in tough times’.
In the latest Conservative Home survey, 60% of those asked say that they have already voted.