|
1. Javid sets first Budget date for 11 March
Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced that he will deliver his Budget on 11 March saying that ‘with this Budget we will unleash Britain’s potential’ to ‘usher in a decade of renewal’. He was expected to give the statement in February but it’s been delayed on account of the Iran crisis, the Telegraph reports.
2. Long Bailey launches leadership bid
Rebecca Long Bailey has officially launched her bid for the Labour leadership with an article in Tribune and a round of broadcast interviews this morning. She told Sky News that she is ‘nobody’s continuity candidate’ – but on Coffee House Katy Balls says that’s not what her pitch suggests.
3. Straw: ‘Continuity candidate’ would be like ‘signing a collective suicide note’
Former Labour home and foreign secretary Jack Straw has said that his party ‘needs a true loyal succesor to Jeremy Corbyn like it needs a hole in the head’ and that choosing ‘a continuity candidate’ would be like ‘signing a collective suicide note’.
4. Phillips rejects second Scottish independence referendum
Labour leadership candidate Jess Phillips has told Good Morning Scotland that as ‘53 per cent of the Scottish public in the general election did not vote for a party that was promoting independence’, she would not support a second Scottish referendum. She added ‘we should be talking about things that are relevant to the lives of people in Scotland’.
5. Corbyn’s last shadow cabinet reshuffle
Jeremy Corbyn reshuffled his shadow cabinet this morning to replace those front benchers who stood down or lost their seats. Entrants include: Tracy Brabin as shadow culture secretary; Rachael Maskell as shadow employment rights minister; Luke Pollard as shadow environment secretary and Tan Dhesi as Corbyn’s permanent private secretary.
|
