Jenrick warns of Labour having an “elective dictatorship”
“A former Cabinet minister has said he “shares the frustrations” of traditional Tory voters defecting to Reform UK, but warned that a vote for Nigel Farage’s party would lead to a Labour “elective dictatorship”. Robert Jenrick, who resigned last year over Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill, pointed to failings in immigration policy as well as the high tax burden, the “soft” criminal justice system and “inefficient” public services as reasons for traditional Tories deserting the party. In an article for The Telegraph, he warned that the success of Reform threatens to kill off conservatism for good as a “meaningful force” in parliament.” – Sunday Telegraph
- If the Right can’t unite, Starmer will change Britain beyond recognition – Robert Jenrick, Sunday Telegraph
- Labour landslide could leave Tories with just 72 seats, MRP poll finds – Sunday Times
- Tories and Labour on course for lowest share of the vote since 1945 – Observer
- Landslide could force Labour MPs to sit on opposition benches with rope dividing them from Conservatives – Mail on Sunday
- The key House of Commons seats where just a handful of votes for Nigel Farage’s Reform would hand Labour a ‘super-majority’ – Mail on Sunday
- The Conservatives are raising the spectre of a Labour ‘supermajority’. But is David Cameron a help or a hindrance? – Tim Shipman, Sunday Times
- On the campaign trail with Farage in Clacton-on-Sea – Sunday Times
Hannan: Labour would establish woke agencies to remove MPs they disagree with
“Changing the franchise is perhaps the most blatant example, but it is far from being the only one. Labour also promises to weaken the recent measures against fraudulent voting – measures it opposed at the time on the ludicrous (if inevitable) grounds that they were a form of racist “voter suppression”. It will set up new agencies to police MPs and peers – an idea that always polls well, but which means that quangocrats, rather than voters, get to kick people out of Parliament. If you think wokery is out of hand now, wait until parliamentarians are being sanctioned by bureaucrats for saying something deemed offensive.” – Daniel Hannan, Sunday Telegraph
- A protest vote now could haunt you for many years to come – Leader, Mail on Sunday
- Labour’s red tape will throttle our economy – Leader, Sunday Telegraph
Sunak talks about the strength his Hindu faith has given him during election campaign
“With the Conservative Party languishing in the polls, Rishi Sunak could do with some divine intervention. He met Pope Francis at the G7 summit in southern Italy on Friday but joked the pair did not have time for a “long enough spiritual conversation”. Sunak’s party is said by many to be in the midst of a death spiral, following weeks of gaffes and missteps, which culminated in him being accused of insulting war veterans by leaving the D-Day commemoration early. Now, for the first time, he has opened up about how he has dealt with the difficulties he and his party have faced, saying he had turned to his faith to give him the strength to carry on.” – Sunday Times
- Sunak is going to lose – but it won’t be because he doesn’t understand Britain – Dan Hodges, Mail on Sunday
- Starmer tells of his romance with his wife, parenting style and his obsession with football – Interview with Sir Keir Starmer, Mail on Sunday
Johnson “contemplating return in a by-election”
“For the moment, Boris Johnson is content finalising his memoirs, and preparing to celebrate his 60th birthday next week. He has concluded that an early return to Parliament in a by-election would leave him tainted by the wave of anti-Conservatism: better to wait until Sir Keir Starmer has displayed his frailties in office. So far, he has given his backing to all candidates who asked for it, either in social media videos or written endorsements, and he is understood to be working with Tory Party headquarters. But Boris’s enduring support among the party membership – who recall that the Tories were only a few percentage points behind Labour when he was ousted from office – means he is likely to play a key role in the choice of candidate to succeed Sunak.” – Mail on Sunday
- ‘Utterly broken’ Tories will soon descend into warfare, says Farage – Sunday Telegraph
- Poll shows support for Mordaunt – Sunday Express
>Today: ToryDiary: Johnson is preparing to run again
Labour to slap higher council tax on homes with big gardens, warn Conservatives
“Home owners with gardens will pay higher council tax under plans being considered by Labour, it is claimed. The Conservatives said Sir Keir Starmer would use a scheme hatched by Labour in Wales snooping on the size of people’s gardens via satellite for “Big Brother” re-evaluations. Following the same “blueprint” for council tax in England could hit households with an increase of £482 a year, claims the Tories. However, Labour rejected the claims as “fantasy”.” – Sunday Telegraph
- Sir Keir Starmer forced to rule out capital gains tax on family homes – Sunday Telegraph
Number in independent schools rises – despite VAT threat
“The number of children attending private schools in England has risen, new figures show, despite claims that families are being priced out by Labour’s plan to add VAT to school fees. The Independent Schools Council (ISC) said last month that pupil numbers had fallen – a sign, they said, that schools were already starting to see “the impact of VAT looming on the horizon”. But official Department for Education (DfE) data published last week shows that as of this January, the number of pupils in independent schools in England was 593,486, up from 591,954 the year before and an increase of 24,150 on 2020-21.” – The Observer
- Lady Starmer’s old school attacks VAT plan – Mail on Sunday
- Labour candidate’s PR firm lobbied against plan for VAT for private schools – The Observer
- Labour ‘doesn’t care’ about children, claims Gillian Keegan – Sunday Telegraph
- VAT school plans may cost army sergeants thousands in extra fees – Sunday Express
Claim NHS would face a financial squeeze under Labour or the Conservatives
“Labour and the Conservatives would both leave the NHS with lower spending increases than during the years of Tory austerity, according to an independent analysis of their manifestos by a leading health thinktank. The assessment by the respected Nuffield Trust of the costed NHS policies of both parties, announced in their manifestos last week, says the level of funding increases would leave them struggling to pay existing staff costs, let alone the bill for massive planned increases in doctors, nurses and other staff in the long-term workforce plan agreed last year.” – The Observer
- Streeting calls on junior doctors to cancel their strike – The Sun on Sunday
May “to be given a peerage”
“Theresa May will be given a life peerage as part of Rishi Sunak’s dissolution list but the former BBC chairman Richard Sharp has been denied a seat in the House of Lords. The Sunday Times has been told the former prime minister is among a list of names submitted by Sunak as part of the customary honours announced after a general election is called.” – Sunday Times
Sunak: Only the Conservatives can be trusted on defence
“In this more dangerous world, we must take steps to protect ourselves. That is why we will invest 2.5 percent of GDP in defence by 2030. Our increase in defence investment will not only fire up our defence industrial base—creating good jobs here at home from Barrow to Lossiemouth to Salisbury—but allow us to stand up for our interests, deter our enemies and defend our values. I worry that Labour have not committed to matching our increase in defence spending, choosing instead to keep the civil service at its bloated post-Covid size. It is only we Conservatives, with our iron resolve, who can be trusted to keep Britain safe.” – Rishi Sunak, Sunday Express
Lawson: Octogenarian peers still enhance the Lords
“A few weeks ago I was debating on Times Radio with Baroness (Joan) Bakewell. She is 91, and as sharp as ever. She was appointed to the Lords by the last Labour government to be “Britain’s voice of older people”. Bakewell calls what her party now proposes “sad”…The whole basis for the change — to reduce numbers — is to misunderstand what the Lords is and how it operates. It is not an assembly of full-time salaried politicians, all desperate for attention. It is actually less crowded than the Commons: the number of peers voting on any measure rarely exceeds 450. This is a revising chamber: peers take part — and receive a per diem payment — when their expertise is relevant to the measures under discussion. That is more vital than ever as the scrutiny of legislation in the Commons becomes increasingly cursory. This will be all the more relevant if there is a chaotic opposition in the elected chamber.” – Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times
Colvile: The young are leading the populist revolt against establishment parties
“In most other countries, in other words, what marks out young people is not so much their socialism as their radicalism. In Belgium, Portugal, Germany and Finland, younger voters are just as keen as the old on anti-establishment, anti-immigration parties, or even more so. In France, the National Rally is leading in the polls among those aged 18-34. Its official leader, Jordan Bardella, is just 28, and already boasts 1.6 million followers on TikTok. In Britain, Farage has roughly 700,000 — more than three times as many as Labour, and more than ten times as many as the Tories.” – Robert Colvile, Sunday Times
- The toxic legacy of lockdown is destroying our political system – Janet Daley, Sunday Telegraph
Other political news
- Putin peace terms slammed at Ukraine summit – BBC
- Sunak soaked again as PM braves elements and snubs ponchos at Trooping the Colour – Sunday Express
- Labour sends activists to 13 seats where it fears losing Muslim voters over Gaza – The Observer
- Ross cleared of travel expenses wrongdoing by watchdog – BBC
- Labour council ‘unfairly’ fined thousands of drivers £2.6m – Sunday Telegraph
- My sister Jo Cox was murdered 8 years ago and politicians are still forced to fear for their lives, says Kim Leadbeater – The Sun on Sunday
- Forbes sets out SNP’s ‘in-between’ stance on oil and gas – BBC
- Home secretary demands urgent explanation after police ram cow in suburb – Sunday Times
- Hundred Scottish churches up for sale as UK turns away from Christianity – Sunday Telegraph
- Labour candidate Rosie Duffield cancels hustings – BBC
- Outcry as university tells staff to teach that whiteness and heterosexuality are a problem – Sunday Telegraph
News in brief
- Memo to Tories: chasing Reform votes is a fool’s errand – Henry Hill, Unherd
- Rachel Reeves ‘£4,800’ mortgage claim is a house of cards – Julian Jessop, The Spectator
- It’s OK to be angry about socialism – Johnny Leavesley, The Critic
- Labour’s constitutional reforms are misconceived and pointless – Eliot Wilson, CapX
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