Andrew Griffith makes speech today as Reform UK accuses party of copying policies they ‘announced weeks and months ago’
While the Tories debate the economy, Andy Burnham is hosting an away-day for his cabinet at Chequers, Andrew McDonald reports in his London Playbook briefing for Politico. He says:
One person tells Playbook there’ll be a session on the upcoming 10-year plan, which is due by the end of the year. Another person says much of the away day is about planning how to tackle the next three months, which may excite some of those Tories in Birmingham still arguing that a December election (?!) is a possibility. Long-term and short-term, there are loads of policy questions still to flesh out within Burnham’s sweepy vision. Cabinet ministers in Liverpool last week were waxing lyrical about Burnham’s openness and interest in their briefs as compared to the previous regime, so there’s a chance some of them might get something useful out of all this face time with the PM.
Emerging from our festival of Simchat Torah tonight, I was appalled to hear that the Green Party had passed its ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion earlier today.
It was the Soviet Union which first promoted the dangerous lie that Zionism is racism.
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