Look at this Parliamentary Question from Tory Shadow Cabinet Office minister Mike Wood:
Westminster watchers know what that document is. Printing out the Mandelson Files cost more than £46,000…
The gotcha ninjas over at ITV News thought they had the perfect trap for the Tory leader at conference by asking: was privatising water one of Margaret Thatcher’s biggest mistakes? “Privatisation was a success,” came the reply, which is even more robust than simply opposing nationalisation. The Tories under Kemi are looking more solid on state-ownership… Throughout the 1980s, when the Treasury held water investment below £2 billion a year, the result was polluted beaches, filthy rivers, and Britain crowned the “dirty man of Europe”. This year, according to Water UK, private companies plan to spend £20 billion – a marked increase on the 1980s cap, even after inflation is taken into account. Leakage is also down around 43% since 1989. More investment is needed, but the chances of it happening under state-control are nil…
Conservative Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Paul Bristow joins The Guido Fawkes Show Live to react to Kemi Badenoch’s speech at Tory conference. The highlights:
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The Tories’ Inheritance Tax plan takes centre stage on The Guido Fawkes Show as William Yarwood of the TaxPayers’ Alliance assesses Badenoch’s announcements yesterday. Why didn’t they go all the way?
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The BBC has paid compensation to PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen and his husband Anthony James after a 2024 documentary and accompanying article accused the pair of sexual misconduct. In the High Court, the corporation’s counsel said the BBC apologises “unreservedly” for the defamatory allegations. The article was deleted this morning, while the documentary came off iPlayer last year…
In a statement published today on PinkNews, Cohen and James said:
“By falsely portraying us as engaging in sexual misconduct and pressuring female employees over surrogacy, the BBC reinforced one of the most damaging homophobic tropes: that gay men are sexual predators who pose a threat to others. These were allegations that should never have been broadcast.”
The BBC confirmed the settlement and said there would be no further comment. A humiliation…
Jenrick has been reported to the police and the Prevent programme after he made comments this week about Islam and Britain. Shiver me timbers…
Speaking on Dan Wootton’s YouTube show, the Reform Shadow Chancellor said he agreed with a Trump post about Europe:
“Yes, I do. Look, mass migration, the disastrous pursuit of multiculturalism and a willingness to tolerate radical Islam is destroying Europe…
Radical Islam is a threat to everything that we hold dear in this country. That it has to be fought and destroyed. It has to be eradicated from our country. And that we can’t allow the creeping Islamification of the United Kingdom…
The Islamification of this country is one perhaps the greatest threat to our way of life right now…
Wearing the burka, Shari’ah courts, hate preachers. End every one of these as quickly as possible, then maybe we’ve got a fighting chance of saving our country from going down the same path as France has clearly gone down.”
Somehow the referrals managed to get into the hands of the Muslim news website 5Pillars. What will Brits think of Jenrick’s comments?
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”