🔴 Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt have put tax cuts at the heart of the battle for Downing Street, as both MPs declared their candidacies in The Telegraph with pledges to slash corporation tax
🔴 The Tory leadership contenders both said they would cancel Rishi Sunak's planned rise in corporation tax and instead reduce the 25 per cent rate to 15 per cent
🔴 In a bombshell announcement, Mr Javid also stated that he would scrap the controversial National Insurance rise, which was introduced during his time as health secretary to fund the NHS and social care
🗣️ In an apparent attack on Rishi Sunak, his rival for the leadership, Mr Javid said:
"I'm not sure I would have done it if I had been chancellor, but I was focused on my job and I'm not trying to do other people's jobs for them"
🔴Labour will table a vote of no confidence in the Government in the Commons on Tuesday as it seeks to oust Boris Johnson from No 10 immediately, a party source has revealed.
☀️Ministers are drawing up plans for the first-ever national heatwave emergency that would cause widespread disruption to schools, travel and health services
🔴Senior officials held a crisis Cobra meeting on Monday, as forecasters predicted the record for Britain's hottest day could be broken at the weekend – potentially smashing through the 104F (40C) barrier for the first time
⚠️On Monday, the Met Office issued an amber weather warning for swathes of the UK, indicating a “danger to life” caused by the heatwave
Such a warning has only ever been issued twice before
❓ ‘How does Twitter… differ from the real world in how it requires us to communicate with each other? How does it make us “insane”?’
‘In the real world, high-volume communication is extremely costly, requiring both hard-to-establish credibility and access to the wealth necessary for such communication,' writes Peterson
🗣️ Kemi Badenoch: ‘My late father taught me about responsibility’
The former equalities minister kicks off her Conservative leadership bid – and is not afraid to tell a few home truths ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Kemi Badenoch’s recollection of her childhood in Nigeria brings tears to her eyes.
It is only five months since the death of her father, Femi Adegoke, from a brain tumour.
Little could he have imagined that within three years of entering the government ranks, his daughter would be launching a bid to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister... ⬇️