On Sky News:
“The problem is that there are white people in countless situations who are getting fewer opportunities, who are disadvantaged when it comes to promotion, disadvantaged when it comes to internships, disadvantaged when it comes to the workplace.
We need to start talking about that and levelling the playing field.”
Braverman says protections for minorities should still exist as part of a “a country where everybody, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality or age, is treated on meritocratic grounds, on fairness grounds, not better or worse because of their personal characteristics.” She says this can be done outside of the Equality Act, which she would abolish…
Lisa Nandy on whether Dan Jarvis will get more cash than Healey was offered, Lisa Nandy said on Sky News:
“I don’t know. I don’t know what stage the negotiations had reached when John Healey decided to resign.
I like him and respect him. And I think he will have taken that, not taking that decision lightly. He took that responsibility very seriously.
But I do know that the prime minister has asked every member of the cabinet to look at our own budgets, to make sure that we can increase funding to defence, and that is what we will announce as part of the Defence Investment Plan when we publish it ahead of the NATO summit next month.”
To the BBC she added “discussions are ongoing” in “real time.” Oh boy…
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Iceland boss and Labour peer, Lord Walker of Broxton, has slammed Starmer on his Government’s record welfare splurge. During a debate called by the Tories on the ballooning benefits bill, Walker said he supports “the Labour Party, not the benefits party“. Almost everyone in the Labour Party knows what’s going wrong, just not Starmer…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”