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Aug 3 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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".
Getting flashbacks to Johnson's darkest Partygate era, as @BrandonLewis gamely goes on the media round to defend what he knows is indefensible.

Says the idea of regional pay for public sector workers was "an IF".
Says Boris Johnson, sorry Liz Truss, 'has been clear' about it
To meet her own 'honest candidate' test, surely @trussliz should have also admitted that she made this exact same argument on public sector pay in Cabinet in 2018?
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…

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Aug 4
"I've changed my view on that" says @trussliz.
The Sunak campaign will say she could talking about anything - but this time she was referring to building on the green belt (when confronted by the excellent @KayBurley with a quote from 2019).
Now, when confronted with her line that there was a 'misrepresentation' of her policy on cutting pay for northern teachers and nurses, Truss admits "I have changed the position on it."
So she now says she *wasn't* misrepresented? She changed her position.
Imagine this as PM
@trussliz: "I am someone who is honest and upfront.."
@KayBurley: "Should good leaders own their mistakes? You blamed the media"
@trussliz: "I am saying the policy has been misrepresented by other people."
Viewers' heads will be spinning at this stuff.
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Aug 4
Just caught up with this excellent paper by @AGMcCormick demolishing UK Govt's claim that the NI Protocol Bill is compatible with international law.
Says there's no evidence EU's application of Protocol was "disproportionate + unreasonable compared to what had been expected" ImageImage
As a former Director General for International Relations at the Northern Ireland Office, he's better qualified than most to pronounce on this stuff. And you can bet this paper will be cited in the House of Lords as the NIP Bill faces scrutiny/delay/amendment.
But will @trussliz surprise everyone by returning to the pragmatism she appeared to show when she first took over the NI Protocol talks from David Frost? (Indeed a pragmatism @michaelgove showed too).

Don't bank on it - but don't rule it out either.

inews.co.uk/opinion/liz-tr…
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Aug 1
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/…
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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.
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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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