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Jan 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Will Rishi Sunak dare to throw cold water on Jacob Rees-Mogg's Brexit bonfire of worker rights?

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The Govt's own independent Regulatory Policy Committee found the impact assessment of the Bill was "not fit for purpose", especially the impact on small
and micro businesses.
gov.uk/government/pub…
Chatter among MPs tonight is that Govt is so worried about the backlash from animal welfare, nature and other campaign groups that it may exempt environmental laws from the 'bonfire'.
Meanwhile some Tory MPs are fretting about a Labour landslide.
Ex-minister: “The worst thing is immediately about 150 of your most agile, talented people just get sliced out.
Of the ones you’ve got left, probably about 2/3rds are numpties in safe seats."

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NHS staff often feel that they're letting patients down. That (totally undeserved) sense of guilt gnaws away at many of them.

But as nurses and ambulance staff prepare to strike, where's the guilt felt by ministers?

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Many people forget that we've been here before. I was a cub reporter in 1989 during the last ambulance strike and it's worth remembering that even Margaret Thatcher's government had to back down amid huge public support for NHS staff.
Back then, I met a Camden ambulance driver called Eric Roberts. A proud Liverpudlian (he'd fixed drums for Beatles in his youth) and sharp wit, he was a lovely man. Here's a piece I wrote for @HamandHigh.
"If our pay stays as low as it is, staff will leave in droves".
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Dec 10, 2022
NEW: the latest census reveals "ID blackspots": Durham, Lincolnshire, Midlands, West Country with >25% not having a passport.

Why does this matter? Because from next May the govt will introduce "no photo ID, no vote" in English elections.
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.@AlexNorrisNN: “The Tories haven’t been honest that these plans will lock millions out of voting. During a cost of living crisis when people are struggling, it is an outrage that they would rather spend this money [£15m/yr] on disenfranchising them.”
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Dec 8, 2022
Speaker Hoyle is so furious with @michaelgove for not providing advance copies of his full Cumbria coal statement that he's suspended the Commons.
I'm told Speaker gave Gove "a bollocking" behind the Chair. Gove insisted it wasn’t a ministerial code breach but source says clerks told him in no uncertain terms that it is. Gove had prepped a short 2 min speech (for an Urgent Q) + ad libbed to turn it into a statement
Gove has been ordered to get a transcript of his ad-libbed statement photocopied so all MPs can read it properly. Hence the delay.

All stems from Govt switching Urgent Q at last min to statement. Under min code, advance copy shd be given to Spkr + Oppstn (ie @lisanandy)
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Dec 7, 2022
He was in #PMQs today...and no one knew!
Matt Hancock's tweet buried the lede, but his letter doesn't: he's quitting as a Tory MP at the next election.

Letter also suggests he will continue as an independent MP, without the Tory whip.
Many of the Tory MPs quitting ahead of the election have only known life in Parliament under a Tory govt.
What is it about the hard slog of Opposition they might not relish?

My piece from yesterday:
inews.co.uk/opinion/some-r…
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Nov 4, 2022
Mark Carney tells @BBCr4today that Brexit is a key reason for interest rates having to go up.
Says 2016 vote devalued sterling, hit growth and productivity + adds he was right in his warnings.
Also defends decision not to use purchasing parity measure, saying market measure much more important.
Says he and @jdportes disagree.
Meanwhile, yesterday's interest rate rise (the biggest since 1989) revives Qs about the Bank of England itself.

Should it take more account of growth and jobs, not just inflation?
A review of its remit is long overdue.

inews.co.uk/opinion/liz-tr…
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Rishi Sunak has just added to the criticism of Matt Hancock for going on I’m A Celebrity.
“The Prime Minister believes that a challenging time for the country, MPs should be working hard for their constituents whether that’s in the House or indeed in their constituency,” -No.10
When asked if same approach applies to all MPs who leave the country in term-time (eg Boris Johnson), PM's official spokesperson: “It is for the whips to manage those instances and it needs to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.”
But he added: “The public, when they elect their MPs, expect them to work hard for their constituents.”
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