Downing Street confirms that £1bn of the £1.8bn 'new' money for the NHS is not in fact new at all. They're now trying to work out where the other £800 million came from. That may not be new either.
Oliver Wright
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Oliver Wright
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Policy Editor of The Times
- In tomorrow's Times: Home Secretary Priti Patel tries to sack her most senior civil servant amid claims she bullies and belittles senior staff
- Labour surges to its largest poll lead over the Tories in more than two decades, as voters turn against Kwasi Kwarteng’s budget. thetimes.co.uk/article/5b0f28…
- Three million EU citizens living in the UK will have prove they have a "lawful" right to use the NHS after a no-deal Brexit, government admits. thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/g…
- Breaking: New YouGov poll for The Times finds Truss has extended her lead over Sunak to 34 points with sixty per cent of Tory members saying they now back the foreign secretary to become prime minister. thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-…
- Johnsonites hate the Sunakites. Sunakites hate the Johnsonites. Trussites also hate the Sunakites, but some of them can’t stand Johnson either. As for Penny Mordaunt — both camps think she would be a disastrous prime minister. In tribute to @SamCoatesSky thetimes.co.uk/article/0affad…
- Votes show the DUP abstained on both the customs union and Boles Common Market 2.0 plan. Downing Street and hard core Brexiteers won't like that one bit.
- Government looks set to announce a ‘national emergency’ later today with an above 50/50 chance that temperatures could reach over 40 degrees next week. Currently we’re at a level three alert - but expected to move to level four for the first time ever.
- Boris Johnson's 'do or die' Brexit strategy is driven by focus groups. So we did our own. And this is what we found:
- Five days before he announced plans for an election Boris Johnson told the Cabinet there were "no plans for an early General Election" official minutes released as part of a Scottish court case reveal. 1/2
- The Tories are currently targeting voters in 34 constituencies on Facebook saying they live in one of “the 12 seats that could make Jeremy Corbyn prime minister”. Hmm. Sort of sums up the Johnson campaign.
- Delighted and daunted to be taking over from Andy Grice as political editor of The Independent. Huge shoes to fill.
- Reports suggest that the Tanzanian investigative journalist Erick Kabendera is to be charged with sedition. A sinister development and test of @foreignoffice pledge to make media freedom a priority. #FreeErickKabendera
- Revealed: Labour had evidence of its candidates’ antisemitism last Saturday - but failed to listen to the tape. The Times political read: thetimes.co.uk/article/1e652d…