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View ArticleLewis: I Told Rudd About Migrant Removals “Ambition”
“So the defence of the Home Secretary – it is an ambition, not a target?” asks @AndrewMarr9 “Well actually there is a big difference between the two things.” replies @BrandonLewis #marr...
View ArticleKhan: Give EU Migrants Preferential Treatment Over Non-EU Migrants
Mayor of London @SadiqKhan says he would back the PM if she offered EU migrants preferential treatment after Brexit. #Peston pic.twitter.com/XZH18NOMC2 — Peston on Sunday (@pestononsunday) April 29,...
View ArticleJoJo: Rudd an Outstanding Figure in Our Politics
“Amber is a great Home Secretary… she is an outstanding figure in our politics.”@JoJohnsonUK defends his under pressure @Conservative Cabinet colleague. #Peston pic.twitter.com/kjrdIggMfJ — Peston on...
View ArticleNo.10 / Civil Service Love In
In response to more Brexiteer criticism of Olly Robbins’ customs partnership proposal in the Sunday newspapers, a clear concerted effort from Number 10 to back their Remainer civil servants:...
View ArticleRudd Was Aware of Migrant Removal Targets
Amber Rudd on Friday claimed she was never aware of migrant removal targets: A letter from Rudd to the PM in January last year, published by the Guardian tonight, reveals she was: Worth noting the...
View ArticleRudd Resigns
At 10pm on a Sunday, after the first editions have gone and after the news bulletins… The post Rudd Resigns appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
View ArticleHome Secretary Runners and Riders
Sajid Javid: Would be astute of May to make her only BAME Cabinet minister Home Secretary in response to the scandals of the last few weeks. Saj made a powerful intervention on Windrush in the Sunday...
View ArticleRich’s Monday Morning View
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View ArticleRudd Audit Revealed She Missed Operational Targets
Worth noting that it isn’t the Guardian’s leaked memo from yesterday afternoon that brought down Amber Rudd. That referred only to the government’s overall ambition for increasing removal targets....
View ArticleSajid Javid New Home Secretary
The first BAME Home Secretary, a reformer who can help the Tories recover from the Windrush scandal, a Remainer who has since been a strong proponent of leaving the customs union. Astute appointment...
View ArticleProfundity of the Punditry: Amber Rudd Edition
Some absolute classics from Fleet Street’s finest over the weekend. The usually sagacious John Rentoul’s Saturday column for the Indy declared Amber Rudd to be in a “surprisingly strong position”: Dan...
View ArticleDiane Abbott Illegal Immigration Brain Fade
.@HackneyAbbott on @UKLabour‘s immigration policy….. dunno mate! (short edit to get under Twitter’s stupid time limit) #Windrush pic.twitter.com/KiWJqeOcOP — liarpoliticians (@liarpoliticians) 30...
View ArticleCould Saj Tip Balance on Brexit Sub-Committee?
Sajid Javid’s appointment has significant implications for Brexit. He also replaces Rudd on the Cabinet Brexit sub-committee, which meets this week to discuss the controversial May / Robbins “customs...
View ArticleCivil Service Workshops With Paul Mason and AC Grayling
Where do the civil service get all their brilliant ideas? Perhaps from the workshops they run for mandarins billed as “bringing the world’s leading thinkers to Whitehall”. On 30 May the Treasury is...
View ArticleBrexit Will Cost EU €3 Billion in Lost Tariffs
While everyone is discussing the Customs Union it gives EuroGuido a chance to highlight the tariff costs of staying in the protectionist bloc that liberal remainers pretend is a “free trade” area. The...
View ArticleLord Moat: Brexit Only an Interim Decision
Douglas Hogg, the disgraced former Tory minister who filed a £2,000 expenses claim to have his moat cleaned, has tabled his “Stop Brexit” motion in the Lords this afternoon. The amendment, backed by...
View ArticleLibDem Peer Compares May to Hitler
Ah, cool. A Lib Dem peer just compared Theresa May to Adolf Hitler for implementing Brexit. pic.twitter.com/eCfE0SFw9j — Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) April 30, 2018 Latest from the Lords, where the...
View ArticleRemain Peer: This Amendment Can Stop Brexit
There it is: Lord Bilimoria lets the cat out of the bag in the Lords and admits “It is parliament thanks to this amendment that will have the ability to stop the train crash that is Brexit”. Fanatical...
View ArticleSaj Drops ‘Hostile Environment’ Rhetoric
I don’t like the phrase “hostile” environment – Home Secretary Sajid Javid https://t.co/VXVbHrStW0 pic.twitter.com/lRQWlnMP6T — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 30, 2018 First significant change in tone...
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