The government is likely to schedule Trump’s state visit to the UK in recess to avoid the President addressing parliament. A diplomatic insult to President Trump…
Former National Security Adviser and Foreign Office permanent secretary Peter Ricketts told the BBC that he expected “the Trump visit will come in the parliamentary recess – that may be convenient… I suspect there won’t, unfortunately, be an occasion for President Trump to address the joint Houses of Parliament.” Rude…
The visit is expected around September. Labour Conference is on the 28th of that month so Starmer could easily pen the state visit in for the week starting 22 September. Bully Bercow kiboshed a Trump address to parliament last time…
Twenty Labour MPs have put their names to a motion opposing any address from the President and the Labour cabinet have variously called him “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic” and a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath.” That’s the foreign secretary there…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”