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Aug 1 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Rishi Sunak's plan to charge NHS patients £10 for missed appointments feels even more desperate than his tax cuts.

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox

inews.co.uk/opinion/rishi-…
Today @theresecoffey told @LBC: "This idea has been rolling around for a long time and I think there’s a reason why it hasn’t been brought into place in the past: I’m not sure many doctors would want to do that, quite candidly.”
The irony is that @trussliz once co-authored a 2009 think tank report 'Back To Black' that called for *everyone* to be charged to see a GP.

I was passed a copy of that report earlier this year. Now she's on course to be PM, well worth a read:

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Meanwhile @PennyMordaunt has just announced at tonight's hustings that she's backing @trussliz for Tory leader. The bandwagon is picking up speed.

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Aug 3
Former Treasury minister and economist Jim O'Neill can't hide his contempt + ridicule of @trussliz regional pay idea. Tells @BBCr4today it stems from tax cuts plan: "one crazy idea results in another one".

The latest #WaughOnPolitics:
inews.co.uk/opinion/liz-tr…
"Laughable really...Given that the guy that she's still quite happy to align herself with, his signature policy was supposed to be levelling up, the optics of that...dear, dear, dear.. I shouldn't laugh because it's so important."
.@montie: "I don't think it was Liz Truss’s finest hour" and says it lays bare her policy making processes "aren't as they should be".
But adds she moved quickly to kill the idea + says her 34% YouGov/Times lead looks "unassailable".
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Jul 19
NEW from Labour: The Forde Report completely debunks the conspiracy theory that the 2017 general election was somehow deliberately sabotaged by Labour Party staff ​opposed to Corbyn's leadership.
Quote from Forde: In Labour in 2017 there was a "debilitating inertia, factionalism and infighting which then distracted from what all profess to be a common cause - electoral success."
"The evidence clearly demonstrated that a vociferous faction in the Party sees any issues regarding antisemitism as exaggerated by the Right to embarrass the Left. The authors of the Leaked Report were supportive of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, enthusiastic and fully committed.”
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Jul 19
Am told Labour HQ has indeed been handed the Forde Report this morning - barely 90 minutes before the party's NEC meets at 12 noon.
This may be the subbed down version of the report, ready for presentation to the NEC, rather than the original. One source says some in the party have had original for more than a week + working out how to present it/react.
Senior party sources say it's "categorically untrue" that the party has had the report since last week. The party received the report this morning and will be going forward to the NEC in full and unchanged.
Read 5 tweets
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Jul 18
@BorisJohnson claims that @Keir_Starmer and "the deep state" will try to "haul us back into the EU".
His Trump-with-jokes act continues even now
@Keir_Starmer hits back at Tory MPs heckling him with this comeback:"I suggest some of those on the opposite side re-read their resignation letters".
Speaker Hoyle was chatting to deputy chief whip Kelly Tolhurst as @Keir_Starmer attacked Johnson for his "lies" about Partygate/ Pincher + appointed "a Chancellor with Qs to answer about tax avoidance + his personal finances
Tory MPs object but Speaker doesn't order withdrawal
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Jul 18
Brutal verdict on @trussliz via Citigroup Inc
“Truss’s policy platform still poses the greatest risk from an economic perspective in our view with an unseemly combination of pro-cyclical tax cuts and institutional disruption,” chief UK economist, Ben Nabarro, said in a note today
Citigroup estimates @trussliz tax cut pledges total £34 billion pounds.

@RishiSunak said her plan to delay debt repayment was 'something for nothing economics'
On Truss's criticism of Bank of England:
“Scapegoating the bank for the cost of living squeeze is neither correct nor constructive. More worrying here though are efforts to muddy operational independence, which poses fundamental questions surrounding institutional credibility”
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Jul 17
Ahead of tonight's 2nd Tory leadership debate, here's why Labour think the contest is confirming to voters that the problem is not the leader, it's the 'toxic Tories' as a party.

inews.co.uk/opinion/tory-e…
Includes this: “In 2005, when Gordon went hard on Oliver Letwin’s billions of spending cuts, he had to guess a figure. But these people have given us on a plate how much they want to slash public services. We have the actual Chancellor saying he wants to cut 20% from every dept"
One Labour insider sums up how the leadership race is proving the gap between voters priorities and Tory priorities.
“Our problem was we thought Twitter was Britain. Their problem is they think the Spectator magazine is Britain.”
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