tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13012819838805946432024-03-12T22:52:00.003+00:00PolittiscribePolittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comBlogger1892125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-43182689478788764592019-11-14T15:14:00.001+00:002019-11-14T15:14:09.166+00:001<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--NgIBf-a03M/Xc1vQVMNv2I/AAAAAAAAGXw/b3Fwc_ACGYEuegm-xOezFZx8_AmV_PIjwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_4674-749184.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--NgIBf-a03M/Xc1vQVMNv2I/AAAAAAAAGXw/b3Fwc_ACGYEuegm-xOezFZx8_AmV_PIjwCK4BGAYYCw/s320/IMG_4674-749184.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6759180942109949794" /></a></p>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-43690198904893860782016-03-01T17:46:00.001+00:002016-03-01T17:46:24.482+00:00Project Fear becomes Project Lie.. <div><br><br><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Are you frightened out of your wits yet?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You probably should be, after more than a week of scare-mongering claims from the Remain camp about how Britain will fall into chaos, economic ruin and be overrun by illegal immigrants and terrorists within nano-seconds of a vote to Leave the European Union.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh, yes, and don't forget the plague of locusts and the fire and brimstone too.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These claims – widely predicted and getting more ludicrous by the day – have been dubbed "Project Fear" by Eurosceptics, who have rightly heaped scorn on the outlandish suggestion that Britain outside the EU will collapse into a black hole of obscurity and poverty.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Project Fear is not just a cynical attack on our democracy, shutting down proper, healthy, informed debate about the real issues affecting the future of our country.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's actually more sinister than that because Project Fear is not so much about stoking up the fears of the British people but about the willingness of many of our political leaders – and specifically the Prime Minister David Cameron – to lie to us.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Project Fear is a misnomer. It is actually Project Lie.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So what precisely is Mr Cameron lying about? It's hard to be sure but there are, just like the EU referendum ballot paper, two options.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Prime Minister, after winning a handful of laughably insignificant reforms from his fellow EU leaders, is now happily leading the campaign to stay in the EU amid claims that a vote to leave would devastate the UK's future prosperity and security.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But hold on a minute, only a matter of a few months ago, didn't the Prime Minister publicly state to the British people that, if he failed to win the necessary reforms from the EU, he would campaign to leave?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Indeed, Mr Cameron promised just that in a number of TV interviews and in his speech at Chatham House last November.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"If we can't reach such an agreement," he said, "And if Britain's concerns were to be met with a deaf ear, which I do not believe will happen, then we will have to think again about whether this European Union is right for us. As I have said before – I rule nothing out."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since there are only two options in an in-out referendum, then "ruling nothing out" can only mean one thing: that Mr Cameron was willing to campaign for a vote to leave the EU. So, that means he thought a Leave vote would be a better result for Britain than an EU with no reforms.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Indeed, he was very clear that the result of a vote to leave the EU would be anything but disastrous for Britain. In the very same Chatham House speech, he explained: "I am not saying for one moment that Britain couldn't survive outside the European Union. Of course we could… Whether we could be successful outside the European Union – that's not the question. The question is whether we would be more successful in than out?"</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is bizarre, given the terrible fate that he and his own ministers now insist awaits us if we do indeed walk away from the European Union. If the dangers of leaving are really so awful, why would he ever have risked choosing to campaign to leave? Or if leaving is not actually a terrible risk, why is he now claiming it is?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Indeed, why would he ever have promised an EU referendum at all? Surely, whatever the public clamour, no responsible Prime Minister should ever offer voters a choice between two options when he genuinely believes one of those choices to be cataclysmic for the country?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So what can we conclude from this?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well, either David Cameron knows that all the Project Fear claims are blatant lies and he is happy for those lies to be told to the British people in a bid to win the referendum. Or he lied when he told the British people that he would campaign to leave the EU if he did not secure the reforms he wanted.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Either way, he has lied to us. Project Fear has morphed into Project Lie and barely anyone has so much as blinked an eye.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The British people deserve better than fear and lies: they deserve the truth.</span></p><div><br></div></div><div>Julia Hartley-Brewer </div>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-90230896939358396342016-02-20T16:37:00.001+00:002016-02-20T16:37:27.511+00:00Michael Gove will vote to leave.. <div><br><br><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 20px 10px 15px; margin: 10px 15px 10px 10px; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(103, 117, 121); text-align: justify;"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For weeks now I have been wrestling with the most difficult decision of my political life. But taking difficult decisions is what politicians are paid to do. No-one is forced to stand for Parliament, no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming Government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister. There is, as far as I can see, only one significant issue on which we have differed.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And that is the future of the UK in the European Union.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It pains me to have to disagree with the Prime Minister on any issue. My instinct is to support him through good times and bad.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But I cannot duck the choice which the Prime Minister has given every one of us. In a few months time we will all have the opportunity to decide whether Britain should stay in the European Union or leave. I believe our country would be freer, fairer and better off outside the EU. And if, at this moment of decision, I didn't say what I believe I would not be true to my convictions or my country.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I don't want to take anything away from the Prime Minister's dedicated efforts to get a better deal for Britain. He has negotiated with courage and tenacity. But I think Britain would be stronger outside the EU.</em></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span id="more-218957" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 20px 10px 15px; margin: 10px 15px 10px 10px; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(103, 117, 121); text-align: justify;"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My starting point is simple. I believe that the decisions which govern all our lives, the laws we must all obey and the taxes we must all pay should be decided by people we choose and who we can throw out if we want change. If power is to be used wisely, if we are to avoid corruption and complacency in high office, then the public must have the right to change laws and Governments at election time.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But our membership of the European Union prevents us being able to change huge swathes of law and stops us being able to choose who makes critical decisions which affect all our lives. Laws which govern citizens in this country are decided by politicians from other nations who we never elected and can't throw out. We can take out our anger on elected representatives in Westminster but whoever is in Government in London cannot remove or reduce VAT, cannot support a steel plant through troubled times, cannot build the houses we need where they're needed and cannot deport all the individuals who shouldn't be in this country. I believe that needs to change. And I believe that both the lessons of our past and the shape of the future make the case for change compelling.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people. As a result of their efforts we developed, and exported to nations like the US, India, Canada and Australia a system of democratic self-government which has brought prosperity and peace to millions.</em></p><p style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our democracy stood the test of time. We showed the world what a free people could achieve if they were allowed to govern themselves.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Britain we established trial by jury in the modern world, we set up the first free parliament, we ensured no-one could be arbitrarily detained at the behest of the Government, we forced our rulers to recognise they ruled by consent not by right, we led the world in abolishing slavery, we established free education for all, national insurance, the National Health Service and a national broadcaster respected across the world.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By way of contrast, the European Union, despite the undoubted idealism of its founders and the good intentions of so many leaders, has proved a failure on so many fronts. The euro has created economic misery for Europe's poorest people. European Union regulation has entrenched mass unemployment. EU immigration policies have encouraged people traffickers and brought desperate refugee camps to our borders.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Far from providing security in an uncertain world, the EU's policies have become a source of instability and insecurity. Razor wire once more criss-crosses the continent, historic tensions between nations such as Greece and Germany have resurfaced in ugly ways and the EU is proving incapable of dealing with the current crises in Libya and Syria. The former head of Interpol says the EU's internal borders policy is "like hanging a sign welcoming terrorists to Europe" and Scandinavian nations which once prided themselves on their openness are now turning in on themselves. All of these factors, combined with popular anger at the lack of political accountability, has encouraged extremism, to the extent that far-right parties are stronger across the continent than at any time since the 1930s.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The EU is an institution rooted in the past and is proving incapable of reforming to meet the big technological, demographic and economic challenges of our time. It was developed in the 1950s and 1960s and like other institutions which seemed modern then, from tower blocks to telexes, it is now hopelessly out of date. The EU tries to standardise and regulate rather than encourage diversity and innovation. It is an analogue union in a digital age.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The EU is built to keep power and control with the elites rather than the people. Even though we are outside the euro we are still subject to an unelected EU commission which is generating new laws every day and an unaccountable European Court in Luxembourg which is extending its reach every week, increasingly using the Charter of Fundamental Rights which in many ways gives the EU more power and reach than ever before. This growing EU bureaucracy holds us back in every area. EU rules dictate everything from the maximum size of containers in which olive oil may be sold (five litres) to the distance houses have to be from heathland to prevent cats chasing birds (five kilometres).</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Individually these rules may be comical. Collectively, and there are tens of thousands of them, they are inimical to creativity, growth and progress. Rules like the EU clinical trials directive have slowed down the creation of new drugs to cure terrible diseases and ECJ judgements on data protection issues hobble the growth of internet companies. As a minister I've seen hundreds of new EU rules cross my desk, none of which were requested by the UK Parliament, none of which I or any other British politician could alter in any way and none of which made us freer, richer or fairer.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is hard to overstate the degree to which the EU is a constraint on ministers' ability to do the things they were elected to do, or to use their judgment about the right course of action for the people of this country. I have long had concerns about our membership of the EU but the experience of Government has only deepened my conviction that we need change. Every single day, every single minister is told: 'Yes Minister, I understand, but I'm afraid that's against EU rules'. I know it. My colleagues in government know it. And the British people ought to know it too: your government is not, ultimately, in control in hundreds of areas that matter.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But by leaving the EU we can take control. Indeed we can show the rest of Europe the way to flourish. Instead of grumbling and complaining about the things we can't change and growing resentful and bitter, we can shape an optimistic, forward-looking and genuinely internationalist alternative to the path the EU is going down. We can show leadership. Like the Americans who declared their independence and never looked back, we can become an exemplar of what an inclusive, open and innovative democracy can achieve.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We can take back the billions we give to the EU, the money which is squandered on grand parliamentary buildings and bureaucratic follies, and invest it in science and technology, schools and apprenticeships. We can get rid of the regulations which big business uses to crush competition and instead support new start-up businesses and creative talent. We can forge trade deals and partnerships with nations across the globe, helping developing countries to grow and benefiting from faster and better access to new markets.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are the world's fifth largest economy, with the best armed forces of any nation, more Nobel Prizes than any European country and more world-leading universities than any European country. Our economy is more dynamic than the Eurozone, we have the most attractive capital city on the globe, the greatest "soft power" and global influence of any state and a leadership role in NATO and the UN. Are we really too small, too weak and too powerless to make a success of self-rule? On the contrary, the reason the EU's bureaucrats oppose us leaving is they fear that our success outside will only underline the scale of their failure.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This chance may never come again in our lifetimes, which is why I will be true to my principles and take the opportunity this referendum provides to leave an EU mired in the past and embrace a better future.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></em></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Michael Gove MP</em></p></blockquote></div>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-70243953344096446952015-09-18T11:15:00.001+01:002015-09-18T11:15:44.789+01:00Telegraph Morning Briefing..<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="Wrapper" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AustinNewsDeckRoman; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="Module" width="600" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="Module" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="Full_width" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="InnercopyTwo" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 1.2em; font-family: 'Austin News Deck Roman', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" height="40" valign="middle" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">Can we trust MPs to police themselves? The Commons Committee on Standards, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9d9" target="_blank" class="">composed mostly of MPs</a>, decided on Thursday to clear that <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9da&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class="">Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind over a "cash for access" revealed by the Telegraph</a>, and now some of its members have expressed <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9c1&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class="">major doubts about the rules</a>.</p><p class="">This comes after our reporters, working with Channel Four's Dispatches programme, found that both Parliamentarians were offering to use their positions on behalf of a fictitious Chinese company in return for payments of at least £5,000 per day. Despite this, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9dc&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class="">Parliament's Standards Commissioner Kathryn Hudson</a> found that "there was no breach of the rules on paid lobbying" after accepting assurances from Sir Malcolm and Mr Straw that they were speaking "off the cuff" and were not intending to back up<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9dd&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class=""> their words in meetings </a>with actual actions. The Standards Committee in turn issued a <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9de" target="_blank" class="">thinly-veiled threat to journalists </a>not to carry out such investigations in future, promising to "consider further the role of the press in furthering … understanding and detecting wrongdoing."</p><p class="">Can the public trust a regime where MPs are effectively <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9df&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class="">marking their own homework</a>? They now need a sensible outside watchdog. 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This comes as <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9e3" target="_blank" class="">Alex Salmond boasted to the Independent </a>that the pro-independence side "would win" if there was another referendum. "One feels for the Prime Minister: he has enough battles to fight," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9c2&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class="">Fraser Nelson writes in today's paper</a>. "But the battle for Scotland is still very much one of them."</p></span></td><td width="10" class="Mobile_hide" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 10px;"></td></tr><tr class=""><td height="10" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 10px; height: 10px; line-height: 10px;" class=""> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="Full_width" bgcolor="#f2f8f9" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(242, 248, 249);"><table width="125" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="Module" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table width="125" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="InnercopyTwo" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="10" class="Mobile_hide" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 10px;"></td><td align="center" height="73" valign="middle" class="Mobile_hide" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Austin News Deck Roman', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 70px; line-height: 100px; color: rgb(0, 121, 143);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9e5&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class=""><img alt="PM: #JezHeCan't" border="0" src="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/res/img/A74052D26F9CBA6D8A2ACCCB24ADA89C.jpg" width="118" height="73" class="Scale_img" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; border: none; display: block;"></a></td></tr><tr class=""><td height="10" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 10px; height: 10px; line-height: 10px;" class=""> </td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="8" class="Mobile_hide" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 8px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="400" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="Module" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="8" class="Mobile_hide" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 8px;"></td><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="InnercopyTwo" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Austin News Deck Roman', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 22px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><a href="x-webdoc://3F27EBA0-96FB-47DD-BF1B-B9231D782EC8/#" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;" class="">PM: #JezHeCan't</a><br class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 19px;" class=""><p class="">Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will get "nowhere near power", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9e6&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class="">David Cameron has claimed</a>. Michael Deacon was struck by the Prime Minister's "thumpingly frank" remarks, which did not mention Corbyn by name. "The Tory plan is...to make Mr Corbyn and the entire Labour party synonymous, so that Mr Corbyn's successors will be damaged by him too," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9e7&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class="">he adds</a>.</p><p class="">This comes as members of the Privy Council have warned Jeremy Corbyn that he will "embarrass" the Queen if he fails to kneel when he joins next month. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9e8&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" class="">Owen Paterson told Chris Hope</a>: "He should grow up or go back to the back benches and play around like some sort of bearded activist." 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width: 560px; color: rgb(0, 121, 143); font-style: italic;" class="">From The Telegraph</td></tr><tr class=""><td height="10" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 10px; height: 10px; line-height: 10px; overflow: hidden;" class=""> </td></tr><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="middle" width="560" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Austin News Deck Roman', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 19px; width: 560px;" class=""><strong class="">Fraser Nelson</strong> - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=h10e44390,231d9bc,231d9e4&WT.mc_id=e_DM48976&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2015_09_18&utm_campaign=DM48976" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Cameron must wake up – the battle for Scotland, and the Union, is still being fought</a></td></tr><tr class=""><td height="10" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 10px; height: 10px; line-height: 10px; overflow: hidden;" class=""> </td></tr><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="middle" width="560" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign is continuing to gather steam, but many senior Labourites are worried. David Cameron seems to be enjoying watching Labour tear itself up over its future, revealing to Conservative MPs that he advised the leftwinger to win by <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e020d&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">emulating how he became Tory leader</a> in 2005, telling him: "You have got to be the change candidate – I was the outsider." Others share Cameron's support for Corbyn's campaign, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e020e&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">with Rupert Myers arguing</a>: "New Labour might not like the image which emerges, but at least Corbyn would turn the contrast button up to full and then rip it off the set."</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chuka Umunna has been trying his best to warn Labour off Corbyn, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e020f" target="_blank">telling the New Statesman</a>: "There are no free hits in this thing, we are not just selecting a Labour leader, we are selecting somebody who is a Labour prime minister." <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0210&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">He told Newsnight</a> that some of his colleagues were reacting to election defeat "like a petulant child", chiding them for "screaming at the electorate". One shadow cabinet minister told <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0211" target="_blank">the Spectator's James Forsyth </a>that Corbyn's candidacy showed Labour was "in real f***eroo territory now." The latest outpouring of rage comes as scores of rebellious MPs forced <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0212&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Harriet Harman to tone down support </a>for George Osborne's benefit cuts, despite the acting leader warning <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0213&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">that Labour lost the election </a>because it was not trusted on welfare spending. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So where does Labour go from here? Ed Miliband isn't keen on the party moving on, with the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0214" target="_blank">Sun reporting </a>his message to supporters that "our cause will win one day". Harman has been hamstrung in her bid to shape Labour's direction, while Corbyn's support from <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0215" target="_blank">local Labour parties is growing</a>, in a sign of his popularity among activists. "Even to have Corbyn as a serious contender inflicts huge damage on Labour," writes <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0216&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Fraser Nelson in today's Telegraph</a>, "and this lack-of-talent contest will run until September". How long will Labour's infatuation with Corbyn last?</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03378/ADAMS20150717_3378617k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">FIRST STRIKE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">British pilots have carried out military air strikes on Syria for the first time, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0217&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">the Ministry of Defence has revealed</a>. The UK personnel were embedded with the forces of Allied nations, including the USA and Canada, which have been conducting strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) terror group. MPs voted against military action in Syria in 2013 and parliamentary authorisation has so far been given only to UK air strikes against Isil in neighbouring Iraq. Follow <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0218&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">our liveblog for more updates</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, President Barack Obama's former top military intelligence official has warned that the Iraq war boosted Isil by "putting fuel on a fire". Retired US Lt. General Michael Flynn, who quit as head of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) last August, told <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0219" target="_blank">Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan </a>that American intervention was a "strategic mistake".</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">'TIL THE MONEY RUNS OUT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Greece's banks may be able to reopen for the first time in three weeks on Monday, after eurozone policymakers handed them a much-needed lifeline, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e021a&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Peter Spence reports</a>. The European Central Bank agreed on Thursday to raise the liquidity it provides to the country's banks by €900m (£630m), which should tide them over for a short time.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Greece will continue to endure its long Calvary until somebody has the courage to tell the Greek people – and to keep telling them until the truth sinks in – that the drachma is their best hope of economic renewal," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e021b&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard</a>. "All they are being told now is that any discussion of the drachma amounts to "treason". If that is the level of intellectual debate, God help Greece."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DR. HUNT, MEDICINE MAN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The NHS is undergoing changes as radical as the Reformation, Jeremy Hunt has said, as he promised to put honesty at the heart of its culture, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e021c&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">reports Laura Donnelly</a>. The Health Secretary said that for too long, the treatment of the health service as a "national religion" meant that anyone who questioned its orthodoxy could be left "facing the Spanish inquisition".</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"If Jeremy Hunt plays his hand right, the BMA may find that is has, at last, overreached itself and lost the battle for public opinion," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e021d&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">writes Sean Worth, David Cameron's former special adviser on health policy</a>, in today's Telegraph. "The real winners of such a victory would be the public themselves, who would be rewarded with a health service that matches their needs."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">MAD MACS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Scottish Nationalists are to start regularly interfering in English affairs as part of a plan to use their new strength in the Commons to extend their power south of the Border, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e021e&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Simon Johnson reports</a>. Angus Robertson, the SNP's leader at Westminster, said the ranks of new SNP MPs meant the party was no longer restricted to focusing on their traditional Scottish interests and they would now tackle issues affecting other parts of the UK.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as the voting system at the House of Commons is to be changed after the success of the Scottish National Party filled the House with an unprecedented number of MPs whose surnames start with "Mc", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e021f&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Dillon Leet reports</a>. Meanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the SNP, has <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0220&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">denounced a cover of the left-wing magazine New Statesman </a>that suggests female politicians cannot be successful unless they are childless as "crass".</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">REFORM, EDUCATE AND ENTERTAIN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The BBC has become too big and can no longer justify trying to be "all things to all people" in the age of Netflix, the government has warned as it unveiled the biggest overhaul of the corporation for a decade, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0221&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Steven Swinford reports</a>. John Whittingdale, the Culture Secretary, suggested that the corporation should become "narrower and more focused" to help cut the price of the TV licence and reduce the impact it has on commercial broadcasters. "He said all this in a diplomatic, reasonable, even benign manner. But beneath his emollience the BBC will have detected menace," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0222&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">says our sketchwriter Michael Deacon</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some of the BBC's stars seem dismissive of the government's proposed overhaul. "I think they should switch off the BBC for two months," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0223&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Graham Norton tells Bryony Gordon</a>. "Just put £24 into everyone's bank account, and switch the BBC off for two months, and people would s*** themselves."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">#UNITEXIT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Britain's biggest trade union, Unite, could campaign to leave the EU if David Cameron uses his renegotiation with Brussels to "water down workers' rights", its leader Len McCluskey has said.<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0224" target="_blank"> He told the FT</a>: "The whole question about what Cameron does to workers' rights would require us to review fully our position."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">NO BLARNEY FROM CARNEY</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Interest rates could finally start to rise by the end of this year, the Governor of the Bank of England signalled <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5">on Thursday night</a>, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0225&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Szu Ping Chan reports</a>. In the strongest signal yet that policymakers are preparing to act, Mark Carney said the decision to raise interest rate was likely to come into "sharper relief" by "the turn of this year". Allister Heath has written about why <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0226&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">interest rates are about to start going up</a></span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">FAR-RON FROM THE MADDING CROWD</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tim Farron has won the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0227&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Liberal Democrat leadership contest</a>, defeating Norman Lamb by winning 56.5 per cent of the vote, and will now have the task of trying to rebuild the party after its decimation in the general election. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0228&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Dillon Leet has rounded up 24 things </a>you didn't know about Farron, including his love of Doc Martens, his rockstar past and his karaoke song of choice. A former bandmate of the new <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0229&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Lib Dem leader said he would be good at the job </a>because his days as a pop frontman means he doesn't fear rejection. If you're pressed for time, here's <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e022a&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">all you need to know about Farron in 60 seconds</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">365 DAYS OF SUMMER</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Parents of children with summer birthdays could be allowed to start school a year later, after official figures showed that August-born 11 year olds are 50 per cent more likely to be labelled "special needs", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e022b&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. The Government has launched the review because of concerns that summer-born children are being unfairly discriminated against at school and are falling behind solely because they are young for their year. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Despite the data from a new study, teacher friends of mine are reassuring, and report that children – whatever their date of birth – do catch up in the end," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e022c&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">writes Lucy Denyer</a>. "If you don't believe them, and really are desperate for your offspring to become the next sports star or academic wunderkind, then there's always abstinence – a no-sex policy between the months of July and December. Every child deserves the best start in life, right?"</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DAVE FIGHTS DIRTY</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron has opened a new front in his war on porn after Brussels made Britain's "adult filter" illegal under new rules coming into force next year, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e022d" target="_blank">the FT's Duncan Robinson reports</a>. Britain will try to beat the EU ban by proposing national legislation to ensure the porn blocker remains intact, exploiting a loophole in new EU rules agreed last month</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03378/170715-MATT-WEB_3378618a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e022e" target="_blank">@AlexWhite1812:</a> Finland signs up to Greek deal enthusiastically - 'Soini: There were no good options, we had to choose between plague and cholera'.<br><strong><br>COMMENT</strong></span></font></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fraser Nelson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e022f&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Labour needs saving from itself – and Cameron is the man to do it</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judith Woods - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0230&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Seven day shift patterns are a must and I should know</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sean Worth - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0231&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Finally, the BMA is going to lose a health reform battle</a></span></font></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p><em><strong>From Politics Comment</strong></em></p><p>Asa Bennett - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0232&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Why Jeremy Hunt is right to take on doctors over weekend working, in one chart</a><br></p><p>Tom Harris - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0233&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">Smug MPs need to stop the hand-wringing and take a pay rise<br></a></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0233&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank"></a><p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0233&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank"></a>James Kirkup - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0234&WT.mc_id=e_DM32918&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_17&utm_campaign=DM32918" target="_blank">My failed attempt to destroy Jeremy Corbyn, Labour and British democracy</a></p></font></span><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Atul Hatwal - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0235" target="_blank">What if Comrade Corbyn became Labour leader?</a></span><span lang=""><br><br>John Harris - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0236" target="_blank">What Labour's next leader needs to know</a></span><span lang=""><br><br>Seumas Milne - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0237" target="_blank">The crucifixion of Greece is killing the European project</a><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0238" target="_blank"></a></span></span></font></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0238" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></a><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hcbdbc48,19e0208,19e0238" target="_blank"></a><span lang=""><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></span></font></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>09.30 Justice Secretary Michael Gove speaks at a Prisoner Learning Alliance event in London on the state of prisons<br>Germany's Bundestag votes on Greek bailout deal. Angela Merkel is also due to attend a press conference before she departs on her summer holiday<br>'Two strike' knife possession law in force in UK<br>BBC Proms begin<br>20.00 'Any Questions?' on Radio 4 with guests set to incl Nicky Morgan and Chuka Umunna<br>Culture Secretary John Whittingdale opens an exhibition in Parliament on the Gallipoli campaign </p><p><span lang=""><em>Birthdays:</em></span></p><p><span lang=""></span><span lang="">Andrew Robathan, former Tory MP - 64</span><span lang=""></span></p></font></span><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><strong></strong></font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">No business </font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF LORDS</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">10:00</a>: Second Reading of Private Members' Bills:<br>Accessible Sports Grounds Bill [HL]<br>Online Safety Bill [HL]<br>Constitutional Convention Bill [HL]</font></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-34856894219195220232015-07-16T08:19:00.001+01:002015-07-16T08:19:44.487+01:00BBC..<br><br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What does the future hold for the BBC? Culture Secretary John Whittingdale will set the ball rolling on this question today when he publishes the government's green paper, laying out the "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b74f7&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">root and branch reform</a>" the BBC will need to make as part of its royal charter renewal.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many have the Beeb's £145.50 annual TV licence fee, which provides most of its income, in their sights. Ministers are considering bringing in a Finnish-style means tested broadcasting levy to pay for the BBC, which will mean middle class families will have to pay more than poor households. Whittingdale will also have to consider the Perry report, which is expected to recommend decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee. Should the BBC ditch the licence fee entirely? Allister Heath argues it should be forced to compete for its audience, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b74f8&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">writing in today's Telegraph</a>: "The BBC could have a great future in this brave new world, selling British programming all over the world, but for that it needs to embrace truly radical change." </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The government's BBC reform drive will not go unopposed, with a <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b74f9&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">host of celebrities writing to the Telegraph yesterday to defend the corporation</a>. In a warning to BBC-sceptics, former <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b74fa&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Tory minister Damian Green writes</a>: "Britain benefits from a strong BBC, and we have the prospect of maintaining that in the years ahead." Auntie's supporters may hope Whittingdale's proposed reforms will be limited, taking comfort from his remarks - back when chair of the Commons Culture Committee in February - that "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b74fb" target="_blank">profound changes</a>" to the licence fee should not be rushed, and that the "possibility of change" would only come in the "2020s". Tory backbenchers, by contrast, will hope for quicker progress. </span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03376/ADAMS20150716_3376986k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hospital consultants will be have to work at weekends under a seven day NHS, the Health Secretary will say as he suggests that their refusal to do so is contributing to 6,000 deaths a year, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b74fc&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Steven Swinford reports</a>. Jeremy Hunt will tell the British Medical Association to "get real" as he announces plans to remove an "opt out" from doctors' contracts which means they do not have to work on a Saturday or Sunday. Laura Donnelly explains <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b74fd&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">what deal is on offer </a>for doctors. Follow what happens over today as Hunt goes to war with <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b74fe&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">doctors on our liveblog</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">NO MORE HERAS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Greek parliament has approved a bill of tough reforms demanded by the country's creditors in return for a new bail-out, as protests in the country turned violent. Mehreen Khan has <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b74ff&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">chronicled how this panned out on our liveblog</a>. The debate saw tempers run high, with one lawmaker from the<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7500&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank"> extreme right-wing Golden Dawn </a>party lashing out at the Greek government over the new economic measures meant to secure a bailout for the cash-strapped country. Among those voted against the package of reforms was Alexis Tsipras's former minister, Yanis Varoufakis, who likened the measures to a "Treaty of Versailles" for Greece, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7501&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Colin Freeman reports from Athens</a>. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Yanis Varoufakis, the ex-finance minister, said all along that they wanted "ritual subjugation", and that is how it looks to great numbers of people across Europe,"<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7502&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank"> writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard</a>. Angela Merkel may be pilloried over her seeming lack of sympathy towards Greece, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7503&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">but as I point out</a>, her voters have an even more hardline stance towards their Hellenic friends. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, British taxpayers will not be left exposed for another Greek bailout, George Osborne hopes, under a compromise struck with Jean-Claude Juncker. The Chancellor is prepared to back the European Commission president's controversial plan to revive a mothballed bailout programme that draws in the entire EU, in exchange for guarantees that British liabilities will be underwritten to protect UK taxpayers, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7504&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Matthew Holehouse reports</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">10% THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MPs will get a pay rise of up to 10 per cent despite furious protestations from David Cameron and other ministers, Parliament's expenses watchdog is set to announce. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has rubber stamped a plan to increase MPs pay from £67,000 to as much as £74,000 a year. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7505&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Chris Hope has the details</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">VLAD THE NEGOTIATOR</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Russian-American cooperation on the Iran nuclear deal could pave the way for an agreement on Syria, Barack Obama has said, despite the current confrontation between Moscow and the West over Ukraine, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7506&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Roland Oliphant reports from Moscow</a>. Mr Obama praised Vladimir Putin for his role in the agreement and said there could now be an "opening" for further detente in the worst crisis in American-Russian relations since the Cold War.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THE OPPOSITION...TO THE OPPOSITION</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Labour faces an open split over the government's planned cuts to benefits spending after one of its MPs - former shadow welfare minister Helen Goodman - tabled an amendment to the legislation to reject the bill, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7507" target="_blank">the BBC reports</a>. This comes after acting leader Harriet Harman warned that if Labour "opposed everything" it would "succeed on nothing". Meanwhile, David Cameron admitted to his own MPs that he is deliberately trying to pass his most controversial policies while Labour is in disarray. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7508&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Chris Hope has more</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">STUNTED PROGRESS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The SNP is more interested in "stunts and sound bites" than serious plans for increasing Holyrood's powers, the Scottish Secretary has said as he promised to make major improvements to legislation extending devolution. David Mundell confirmed to MPs that the Government will table substantive amendments to the Scotland Bill and would consider "serious" changes submitted by opposition parties, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7509&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Simon Johnson reports</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">IN-CORB-REDIBLE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jeremy Corbyn is ahead in the Labour leadership contest by more than 15 points, private polling by his rivals suggests, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b750a&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Michael Wilkinson reports</a>. The left-wing MP, who was a last minute entry into the contest, now looks set for victory according to a poll which will come as bitter news for his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall. Want to help lumber Labour with the bearded socialist voter-repellent as leader? Follow our simple five step guide on <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b750b&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">how to help him win</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b750c" target="_blank" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">CANNON CALL SHUN</font></a></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Theresa May, the Home Secretary, has refused permission for water cannon to be used for the first time on the British mainland. The controversial equipment required authorisation from the Home Office before it could be deployed but Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has already called for them - and bought three second-hand cannon from Germany at a cost of £218,000. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b750d&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">OFFICE POLITICS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tim Farron, the favourite to win the Liberal Democrat leadership, wants to send all of the party's staff back to work for charities to learn how to campaign again, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b750e&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. Farron is tipped to beat Norman Lamb in the LibDem leadership contest on Thursday, and take over the running of the party and its eight MPs in the House of Commons. If you're wondering who exactly Farron is, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b750f&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Rosa Prince has written an insightful profile </a>of the man who could be the next Lib Dem leader.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">RED-FACED LETTER DAY</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A lack of funding led to UK stamps being put on postal ballot papers for overseas voters ahead of the general election in May, the Electoral Commission disclosed in a report. A flood of complaints came in from Britons living around the world that they were unable to vote, despite being registered to do so, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7510&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Elizabeth Roberts reports</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">JUSTICE ON THE MOVE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Magistrates' courts could meet in town halls or even hotel suites in a bid to save money, the Justice Secretary has said. Michael Gove confirmed there will be a new programme of court closures but the minister stressed he was keen to retain the way justice is dispensed at a local level, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7511&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">David Barrett reports</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as criminal barristers are set to refuse to take on new cases in an unprecedented protest at the Government's cuts to legal aid. Barristers in England and Wales voted to back the "strike" in a poll by a majority of 55 per cent in favour and 45 per cent against. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7512&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">ROCK BOTTOM</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A mayor has refused to apologise for joking that all women in a town he represents have fat bottoms. Francis Purdue-Horan provoked outrage with a comment he made just before Queen tribute act Mercury was about to perform at a music festival in Bingham, Nottinghamshire. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7513&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Here's the full story</a>.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03377/160715-MATT-WEB_3377088a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7514" target="_blank">@GerriPeev:</a> Bit of a risk for Home Sec to ban water cannons without knowing how the trade union reforms will play out<br><strong><br>COMMENT</strong></span></font></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Allister Heath - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7515&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Ditch the licence fee and force the BBC to compete for its audience</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Norman Tebbit - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7516&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Trade unions need putting back in their place</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">George Papaconstantinou - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7517&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Alexis Tsipras gambled away Greece's future. Now he must make amends</a></span></font></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p><em><strong>From Politics Comment</strong></em></p><p>Asa Bennett - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7518&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Angela Merkel has been kinder to Greece than German voters would be</a></p><p>Tom Harris - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7519&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">Labour cannot afford to look like a party of protest</a></p><p>Douglas Carswell - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751a&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">The luvvies praising the BBC are like bankers praising their bonuses</a><br></p></font></span><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Nicky Morgan - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751b" target="_blank">We've made great strides on women's equality - but this is no time to pat each other on the back</a><br><br></span><span lang=""></span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Justin Welby - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751c" target="_blank"><u>Faith must be strong enough to take offence</u></a><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751d" target="_blank"><br></a></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751d" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751d" target="_blank"><span lang=""></span></a>Stephen Bush - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751e" target="_blank">Harriet Harman shows just how hard the next Labour leader's job will be</a><br><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751f" target="_blank"><span lang=""></span></a></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751f" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b751f" target="_blank"></a><span lang=""><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></span></font></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">08:00</a> Defence Minister Michael Fallon is to give a speech at the Chief of the Air Staff's Air Power conference in London<br>08.30 Ed Vaizey speech on cyber security at Reform think-tank <br>09.00 Jeremy Hunt outlines seven-day service plans in '25-year vision' NHS speech<br>09.30 MPs on Public Administration Committee take evidence on EU Referendum Bill amid 'purdah' debate from Lord Bew and Andrew Scallan<br>09.30 MPs on Energy Committee quiz Energy Sec Amber Rudd on govt priorities<br>11.30 Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and Ed Vaizey speaks at Creative Industries Federation event<span lang=""><br>David Cameron undertakes a regional tour</span><span lang=""><br>BBC green paper published<br>Lib Dems' new leader announced - new leader expected to speak at 19.00<br>17.30 Liam Fox MP speaks at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London on defence and security issues <br>19.00 Bank of England Governor Mark Carney delivers lecture on Magna Carta<br>Peers debate English votes for English laws<br>Entrepreneurs Network publish study on MPs' awareness of <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hca732c5,19b74f2,19b7520&WT.mc_id=e_DM32614&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_16&utm_campaign=DM32614" target="_blank">small business policy</a></span></p><p><span lang=""><em>Birthdays:</em></span></p><p><span lang=""></span><span lang="">Sir George Young, former Tory MP - 73<br>Labour MP Frank Field - 72</span><span lang=""></span></p></font></span><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://16" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="16">9:30</a>: Transport questions (topicals <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://17" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="17">at 10:15</a>)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://18" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="18">10:30</a>: Business statement<br></span><span lang="">Presentation of Bill: Criminal Cases Review Commission (Supplementary Powers) Bill (Andy McDonald, Lab, Middlesbrough)<br><br><em>Main business</em><br>Debate on matters to be raised before the forthcoming adjournment<br>Adjournment debate: Role of insurance companies in child abuse inquiries (Ann Clywd, Lab, Cynon Valley)</span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><strong>WESTMINSTER HALL</strong><br><br>13.30: Sentencing for cruelty to domestic pets (Mark Spencer, Con, Sherwood)<br>15.00: Police procurement of vehicles (Christian Matheson, Lab, Chester)</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF LORDS</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Lords Chamber<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://19" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="19">11:00</a>: Oral questions</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""></span><span lang=""><em>Main business</em><br>Motions relating to the House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Act 2015<br>Motions to appoint committee members: Hybrid Instruments Committee and Joint Committee on Human Rights<br>Balloted debate on the "Responsibility to Protect" and the application of this international norm by the United Kingdom and the United Nations <br>Question for short debate on whether the Government plan to consider alternatives to their proposals for English votes for English laws (1 hour)<br>Balloted debate on worldwide violations of Article 18 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the case for greater priority to be given by the United Kingdom and the international community to upholding freedom of religion and belief (Lord Alton of Liverpool, Crossbench) (2.5 hours)<br>National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2015: Motion to approve</span></span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-16216290303508465032015-07-15T08:20:00.001+01:002015-07-15T08:20:38.729+01:00Strike..<br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Conservatives are channelling the spirit of Margaret Thatcher today, with Business Secretary Sajid Javid unveiling a crackdown on strike laws that will infuriate the trade unions. "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eab&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Unions will be banned from strikes based on old ballots</a>", we say on our front page, the Mail trumpets "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eac" target="_blank">Cameron's war on strike bullies</a>", while the Guardian reports: "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ead" target="_blank">Tories launch biggest crackdown on trade unions for 30 years</a>".</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following public anger over <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eae&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">last week's tube strikes</a>, the government's bill will be formally published today, with MPs expected to first debate it in <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eaf" target="_blank">early September</a>. However, this will not stop battle lines being drawn, with one union leader - Aslef's Mick Whelan - comparing the proposals to <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb0&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">those enacted in Nazi Germany</a>. The GMB and <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb1&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Unite unions are said to be considering legal action</a>, while Unite's Len McCluskey provocatively revealed that his members are no longer advised to carry out strikes "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb2&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">so far as may be lawful</a>". "It is absolutely right that the Government is acting to impose some order", says the Sun.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Britain's unions are determined not to take this quietly, so Sajid Javid has a major fight on his hands. This Thatcherite drive will allow Javid, who <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb3&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">proudly hangs a portrait of the Iron Lady on his office wall</a>, to burnish his Conservative credentials. Could it help him become her eventual successor as Tory leader?</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03375/ADAMS201507151_3375749k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">CAREER OF EVEL</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Evel (English votes for English laws) is on the agenda today, with <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb4&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Tory MPs wanting David Cameron to strengthen</a> the government's plans in order to stop the SNP from having an effective veto over proposals that only matter south of the border. This comes after Nicola Sturgeon forced the government yesterday to delay a vote on relaxing the ban on fox hunting by threatening to have SNP MPs vote on an issue that only matters to England. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sturgeon's threat has been met with disbelief, after she said in February that the SNP's "long-standing position" was not to vote on "matters that purely affect England - such as foxhunting". "This demonstrates the untrustworthiness of the SNP but at least it is consistent in wanting to destroy the Union," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb5&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">we say</a>. Could derailing the foxhunting vote backfire? "The truth is now out in the open: the SNP will be happy to stick their oar into all things English and Welsh," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb6&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">writes Charlie Brooks</a>. "This lust for class warfare has effectively provided precisely the justification needed to pass the legislation required to ban the SNP from voting on English and Welsh issues in the future." </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">IMF TO THE GRESCUE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The International Monetary Fund has set off a political earthquake in Europe, warning that Greece may need a full moratorium on debt payments for 30 years and perhaps even long-term subsidies to claw its way out of depression, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb7&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports</a>.<br>"The dramatic deterioration in debt sustainability points to the need for debt relief on a scale that would need to go well beyond what has been under consideration to date," said the IMF in a confidential report. This comes as Alexis Tsipras said <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb8&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">banks could stay closed in Greece for a month</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TEHRAN FIRMA</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">America and Iran overcame generations of mistrust and rivalry on Tuesday to reach a comprehensive agreement designed to settle the confrontation over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eb9&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">David Blair reports from Vienna</a>. President Barack Obama hailed a step towards a "safer and more secure" world as Iran formally promised to curb its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, not everyone is happy. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eba&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Con Coughlin writes</a>: "Mr Obama might have convinced himself that the deal cuts off all of Iran's "pathways to nuclear weapons", but that is certainly not how the deal will be viewed by those who have more intimate knowledge of the Iranian regime's devious tactics, such as the Saudis and the Gulf states. If he believes his "historic" deal is going to bring peace to the region, then he needs to think again." Meanwhile, former Iranian President <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ebb" target="_blank">Abolhassan Bani-Sadr described it as "capitulation".</a></span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">LOVE OF LABOUR'S LOST</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tony Blair has held secret meetings with new Labour MPs and told them to do the same "hard work" he and Gordon Brown did to win back voters, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ebc&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith reports</a>. The former prime minster has been inviting groups of new MPs for "informal" chats at his private office and telling them to adopt a "big vision" to changing the party.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"George Osborne told me recently that he spent his early years in Parliament watching and learning from Tony Blair: how he seized and then held the centre ground of British politics, forcing the Tories to the Right," writes <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ebd&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">New Statesman editor Jason Cowley in today's Telegraph</a>. "Osborne is doing something similar to Labour, by forcing the party to the Left. Whoever ends up leading Labour in September ought to watch and learn."</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as Mhairi Black, Britain's youngest MP, has savaged Labour for abandoning its traditional left-wing politics in a powerful maiden speech in the House of Commons. You can watch <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ebe&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">her debut here</a>. Meanwhile, Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, will urge Labour to "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ebf" target="_blank">wrap itself</a>" in the St George's Cross to win back voters. He will also tell the party to embark on a "relentless" drive to rebuild its economic credibility if it hopes to win back power, and back the idea of an English Labour party.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THE MEN FROM AUNTIE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Daniel Craig and Sir David Attenborough are among the star names today warning David Cameron that his plans to reform the BBC will damage Britain's global standing, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec0&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Anita Singh reports</a>. In an open letter to Downing Street, more than two dozen figures from the world of arts and entertainment claim that "a diminished BBC would simply mean a diminished Britain".</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DOWN AND OUT IN CALAIS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At least 35,000 illegal immigrants were discovered trying to breach security measures at Calais to reach Britain in the last six months, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec1&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">David Barrett reports</a>. Over a three week period during French ferry workers' strikes, numbers rocketed to at least 540 a day - or 23 an hour - attempting to break through fences or stow away in lorries, MPs heard.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">YES WE CAM</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Barack Obama has described Britain as America's strongest ally after David Cameron agreed to increase defence spending to two per cent of national income, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec2&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. The US President said the decision was "a significant signal from their primary partner on the world stage, in comments which will underline the UK's historic special relationship with America.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">#GAUKWARD</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Treasury minister David Gauke has been accidentally married to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan by the Evening Standard. The Tory MP noticed that a picture in the paper of the pair described him as her husband Jonathan, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec3" target="_blank">and tweeted</a>: "A little surprised to learn from the Evening Standard that I am married to @NickyMorgan01 and called Jonathan."</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03375/150715-MATT-WEB_3375678a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec4" target="_blank">@ChristopherHope:</a> So far David Cameron has performed three U-turns under pressure from MPs (EVEL, EU ref and now fox hunting). His Government is 67 days old.<br><strong><br>COMMENT</strong></span></font></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Con Coughlin - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec5&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Iran nuclear deal: Peace in our time? Not with this shoddy agreement</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jason Cowley - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec6&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">England is changing and the Labour Party desperately needs to change with it</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Alan Cochrane - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec7&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Nicola Sturgeon's retreat from pinciple will spark surge in anti-Scottish sentiment</a></span></font></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p><em><strong>From Politics Comment</strong></em></p><p>Louise Guinness - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec8&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">Why I hunt: Nothing comes close to the thrill of chasing a live quarry</a></p><p>Miriam Gonzalez - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ec9&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">The Treasury is about to get tougher on businesses who break EU sanctions</a></p><p>Cathy Newman - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990eca&WT.mc_id=e_DM32182&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_15&utm_campaign=DM32182" target="_blank">David Cameron - a compassionate Tory feminist after all?</a></p></font></span><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Owen Jones - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ecb" target="_blank">The left must put Britain's EU withdrawal on the agenda</a><br></span><span lang=""></span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Daniel Finklestein - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ecc" target="_blank">As Greece shows, threats will get you nowhere<br></a></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ecc" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ecc" target="_blank"><span lang=""></span></a>Chris Deerin - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ecd" target="_blank">Hypocritical, shameless, unprincipled: And Sturgeon's stance on hunting is just the start of her war on England<span lang=""></span></a></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ecd" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ecd" target="_blank"></a><span lang=""><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">09.15: Michael Gove at HoC Justice Committee<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://11" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="11">09:30</a> UK monthly unemployment figures to be published by ONS<br>10.00 Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt speaks at a Policy Network event in London on responding to rising populism <br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12">10:30</a> Andy Burnham is to give a speech at Rusi on 'keeping Britain safe in an unsafe world'<br>11.00 Nick Clegg giving evidence to Lords committee on social mobility<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13">12:00</a> PMQs – the last before the summer break<br>13.30 Defence Secretary Michael Fallon speaks at Chatham House in London on the future of the British-American naval alliance<br>13.35 Chief of Defence Staff Sir Nicholas Houghton speaks at Rusi air power conference<br>14.00 Voting closes for Lib Dem leadership contest</span><span lang=""><br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">14:45</a> Treasury Committee evidence session on George Osborne's Summer Budget with Citi's chief UK economist Michael Saunders and IFS director Paul Johnson among witnesses<br>15.00 Ukip leader Nigel Farage speaks at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC on the EU referendum <br>15.30 David Cameron meets Ukranian PM at No 10<br>16.00 Opening ceremony of <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc956434,1990ea6,1990ece" target="_blank">Parliamentary Education Centre</a><br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15">16:05</a> Airports Commission chairman Sir Howard Davies is to give evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://16" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="16">22:00</a> 'Dispatches: Escape from Isis' to be broadcast on Channel 4.<br>MPs to debate the government's plans for English votes for English laws<br>Greece's parliament is to vote on reforms as part of Monday's bailout deal</span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Birthdays:</font></em></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">David Miliband - 50<br>Alistair Carmichael - 50<br>Gareth Thomas - 48<br>John Denham - 62<br>Crispin Blunt - 55</span><span lang=""><br></span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://20" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="20">11:30</a>: Oral Questions - Scotland<br>12.00 - PMQs<br>Ten minute rule motion: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (Statutory Requirement) Bill (Caroline Lucas, Green, Brighton Pavillion)<br><br></span><span lang="">Main business<br>Proceedings on the Supply and Appropriations (Main Estimates) Bill<br>General debate on English votes on English laws (Day 1 of 2)<br>Adjournment debate: London's licensed taxi trade (Charles Walker, Con, Broxbourne)</span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WESTMINSTER HALL</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://21" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="21">9:30 - 11:00</a>: Housing supply in London (Dr Rupa Huq, Lab, Ealing Central and Acton)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://22" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="22">11:00 - 11:30</a>: Future of the UK steel industry (Tom Blenkinsop, Lab, Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://23" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="23">14:30 - 16:00</a>: Regional support for the arts (Robert Jenrick, Con, Newark)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://24" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="24">16:00 - 16:30</a>: Bank closures in Northern Lincolnshire (Martin Vickers, Con, Cleethorpes)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://25" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="25">16:30 - 17:30</a>: The future of Barking , Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (Mike Gapes, Lab, Ilford South)</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF LORDS</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://26" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="26">15:00</a>: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br>- Baroness Cox: What is their response to the Day of Remembrance on 14 July for victims of dishonour-based violence, and what steps they are taking to prevent such violence against girls and women.<br>- Lord Beecham: What is their assessment of the impact of the £200 million reduction in the public health budget on local authorities in the current financial year.<br>- Lord Harries of Pentregarth: When they intend to implement the amendments to section 9 of the Equality Act 2010 that requires the introduction of secondary legislation to incorporate caste as a protected characteristic.<br>- Lord Dubs: What assessment they have made of the impact of their proposed amendments to the Hunting Act 2004 on efforts to protect animal welfare.</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><em>Main business</em><br>Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill: Report (Day 1.5 of 1.5)<br>Police Federation (Amendment) Regulations 2015: Motion to regret</font></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-25513297392188517922015-07-08T08:25:00.001+01:002015-07-08T08:25:39.914+01:00Budget day.. <br><br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">George Osborne will present his <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a507&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">first true-blue Conservative Budget today</a>, unrestrained by his former Lib Dem coalition partners, and so he can afford to set out a bold Osbornite vision for Britain. So what are we in for?</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a526&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Chancellor's plan to raise the 40p threshold</a>, giving a tax cut to middle class families, leads our front page. The Mail leads on this too, but highlights the "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a527" target="_blank">sting in the tail on child tax credits</a>", which are set to be limited to the first two children in any family. "Gordon Brown's tax credits monster must be slain," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a528&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">says Frank Field</a>, Labour chair of the Work and Pensions select committee. It's all part of Osborne's vision for a "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a529" target="_blank">lower welfare, lower tax</a>" Britain, as the FT puts it, although he is making his planned £12 billion in welfare cuts more slowly, dragging them out into the second half of this parliament. Freed from Lib Dem influence, Osborne is also set to announce the scrapping of <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a52a" target="_blank">student maintenance grants</a> (which the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a52b" target="_blank">Independent leads on</a>), and curbs to green levies (<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a52c" target="_blank">as the Sun reports</a>). Make sure to follow <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a52d&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">what happens on our liveblog</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Chancellor is just over halfway through his plan to eliminate the deficit, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a52e&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">so still has more to do</a>. "Some people close [to him] reckon this will be his most consequential budget," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a52f&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">writes James Kirkup</a>. "It certainly should be: he comes to the Commons today with political capital to burn, an opposition in disarray and a five-year Parliament stretching out before him. If he is going to make the move next door one day, today's the day we get our first real glimpse of Prime Minister George Osborne."<span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span></span></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03368/ADAMS20150708_3368155k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HERE'S LOOKING AT EUCLID</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The European Union faces "the most critical" moment in its 64-year history, after leaders warned they had five days to prevent Greece from careering out of the euro and into a full blown humanitarian crisis, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a530&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Mehreen Khan and Matthew Holehouse report</a>. Creditors were openly exasperated after new finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos arrived empty-handed in Brussels following Greece's momentous No vote against their lenders' bail-out conditions. "The two sides are talking past each other, clinging to long-entrenched narratives, no longer willing to question their own assumptions. The result could be costly," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a531&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brussels has now convened a full emergency summit of all 28 European leaders on Sunday to thrash out an deal to keep Greece in the single currency. "Despite such determination, it does seem that sooner or later their ambition of ever-closer union will be wrecked on the rocks of financial reality," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a532&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">we say</a>. What does this mean for Britain's political parties? "If the Greek revolt proves contagious, then Labour is the certain loser," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a533&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">argues Mary Riddell</a></span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THE EVEL THAT MEN DO</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tory MPs have warned the government that it is pushing through plans for English votes for English laws too quickly raising concerns that the government could face a rebellion, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a534&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Steven Swinford reports</a>. Senior back-benchers said that the future of the Union is "hanging by a thread" as they called for more time for debate ahead of a vote later this month. It came as Labour and the SNP joined forces to secure a symbolic victory over the government by winning an emergency vote which it tabled. The government opted to abstain.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The SNP certainly sound outraged with the Government about EVEL," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a535&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">writes our sketchwriter Michael Deacon</a>. "The trouble is, they've sounded identically outraged with the Government about pretty much everything else, too – and the sheer relentlessness of their outrage is starting to make it hard to tell how authentic that outrage is. Is it always real, or sometimes merely for show – or even just force of habit?"</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">PAPA DO PREACH</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Immigration is helping to bring Britain back to its Christian roots and reviving religion in a "weary, western" culture, the country's most senior Roman Catholic cleric has insisted, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a536&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">John Bingham reports</a>. Cardinal Vincent Nichols said an influx of new arrivals was not simply boosting flagging congregations but encouraging the British-born population to rediscover its own "wellsprings of faith".</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">NAUGHTIE STEPS OFF</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">James Naughtie is leaving BBC Radio 4's Today programme in January after 21 years, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a537&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">the corporation has announced</a>. "It is quite big news when we hear that someone is leaving. We had a nice meeting after the programme. The debrief is usually 10 minutes, but this morning we learned that Jim was leaving. There were a few tears shed, I can tell you," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a538&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">his former co-presenter John Humphrys told the Telegraph</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Fans of his Aberdeenshire tones can be reassured that he will not depart today. Or indeed tomorrow," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a539&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">we say</a>. "In fact Today can count on his political expertise until next year, by which time he will have completed more than two decades in the job. It is time well spent."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">MERCER MAKES A SPLASH</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Newly-elected Conservative MP Johnny Mercer has appeared half-naked in a Dove advert in which he lathers himself in a bathroom, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a53a&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Michael Wilkinson reports</a>. The 38-year-old was able to pull off the role in the American TV advert after building an impressive physique during his distinguished career as a commando captain.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WHARTON HEARS A WHERE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ask any number of people 'where is the north?' and you will almost certainly get a different answer every time. Anywhere north of Watford? Only when you get to Crewe? James Wharton, the new minister in charge of George Osborne's much-heralded 'northern powerhouse' project, may therefore be forgiven in his admission that he doesn't exactly know where the north is. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a53b&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Read what happened here</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">BERC-OWNED</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Commons Speaker John Bercow told an MP who asked a long-winded question not "to argue the toss with the Chair". When Liberal Democrat Greg Mulholland complained, he shouted: "Don't shake your head mate." <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a53c&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">You can watch their exchange here</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOTEL WESTMINSTER (YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE)</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dozens of former MPs, including Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind, ex-ministers under investigation for lobbying allegations, have been granted privileged access to Parliament since the general election. Some 381 former members are in possession of passes that allow them to roam the Westminster estate and use the subsidised facilities. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a53d&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">YVETTE'S PARENT TRAP</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a53e&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">has been accused of highlighting </a>the fact her Labour leadership rival Liz Kendall does not have any children to win votes as the contest descended into acrimony. This comes after shadow media minister <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a53f" target="_blank">Helen Goodman wrote in a blog for the Huffington Post UK </a>that the fact Cooper was a "working mum" had convinced her to back the shadow home secretary's leadership campaign. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">ATTACK PATTEN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lord Patten, the former chairman of the BBC Trust, has accused the Culture Secretary of being an "adolescent ideologue" after he announced "awful" plans to make the corporation pay for pensioners' free TV licences, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a540&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Steven Swinford reports</a>. John Whittingdale said on Monday that the corporation will bear the £650million cost of the free licence fee for those over the age of 75 from 2020. This comes as the corporation's director general Lord Hall did not deny that the corporation has now become "a branch" of the welfare state. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a541&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>. </span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03367/080715-MATT-WEB_3367848a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a542" target="_blank">@MikeySmith</a>: If the BBC rebranded economic coverage as "George Osborne's Budgie" and "George Osborne's Awesome Statement", loads more people would watch</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">James Kirkup - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a543&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Introducing Prime Minister George Osborne</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Steve Hilton - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a544&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">The Living Wage is a Conservative idea. Now let's make it happen</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mary Riddell - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a545&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">If Greece's revolt spreads across Europe, Labour will be the loser</a><span lang=""></span></span></font></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From the Politics blog</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asa Bennett - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a546&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">How many more cuts does George Osborne have to make?</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Frank Field - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a547&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Gordon Brown's tax credits monster must be slain</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mark Littlewood- <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a548&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">Cutting £12bn in welfare should only be the start, Chancellor</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Rafael Behr - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a549" target="_blank">Marmite nation: is the idea of Britishness broken beyond repair?</a><br></font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Daniel Finklestein - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a54a" target="_blank">Thatcher shows why we must keep on cutting</a></font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Christopher Bland - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a54b" target="_blank">George Osborne should earn his reputation for courage by abolishing free TV licences for the over 75s</a></span><span lang=""><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a54c" target="_blank"></a></span></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a54c" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a54c" target="_blank"><span lang=""><strong></strong></span></a><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></font></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12">09:30</a> European Council President Donald Tusk to give a speech on Greece to the European Parliament<br>10.30 Peers quiz Oliver Letwin and Supreme Court President on constitutional reform<br>12.00 David Cameron at PMQs<br>12.30 George Osborne's Summer Budget<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13">18:30</a> 24-hour tube <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc2d3c37,188a502,188a54d&WT.mc_id=e_DM29889&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_08&utm_campaign=DM29889" target="_blank">strike to begin in London</a> <br>19.00 City of London Corporation's H.M. Judges Annual Dinner addressed by Michael Gove<br>The People's Assembly Against Austerity to stage a mass 'die-in' in front of Parliament in protest against welfare cuts</p><p></p><p></p><p><span lang=""><strong>TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</strong></span></p><p><span lang=""><strong>HOUSE OF COMMONS</strong></span></p><p><span lang=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">11:30</a>: International development questions (topicals <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15">at 11:53am</a>)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://16" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="16">12:00</a>: PMQs</span></p><p><span lang=""><em>Main business</em> - Budget statement<br>Adjournment debate on Long term economic plan for the South West of England, led by Dr Liam Fox</span></p><p><span lang=""><strong>WESTMINSTER HALL</strong></span></p><p><span lang=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://17" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="17">9:30 - 11:00</a>: Performance of Southern railway (Nick Herbert)<br></span><span lang=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://18" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="18">11:00 - 11:30</a>: Norfolk and Suffolk Broads (Keith Simpson)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://19" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="19">14:30 - 16:00</a>: Report of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict (Holly Lynch)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://20" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="20">16:00 - 16:30</a>: Effect on recipients of the transfer of the ILF to local authorities (Nic Dakin)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://21" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="21">16:30 - 17:30</a>: Cremation of infants in England (Daniel Kawczynski)</span><span lang=""><br></span></p></font></span><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF LORDS</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">15.00: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br>- Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab): What plans they have to restore the link between funding and need to local government funding; and what assessment they have made of the impact of local government funding cuts on both the most and least deprived local authorities in the United Kingdom.<br>- Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab): What steps they plan to take to (1) implement their pledge to work to eliminate child poverty, and (2) meet the 2020 statutory targets set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010.<br>- Viscount Hanworth (Lab): What is the annual forecast cost for (1) storing, and (2) protecting, the stocks of plutonium at Sellafield in a. 2015, b. 2025, and c. beyond 2025, if there is no decision to deal with the material otherwise.<br> - Topical questions<br><br><em>Main business</em> - European Union (Finance) Bill: Second Reading and remaining stages and debate on the reports into investigatory powers (Lord Bates, Con)<br></span><span lang="">Lords Committees - EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee (<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://22" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="22">10:00am</a>, room 3) and Constitution Committee (<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://23" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="23">10:15am</a>, room 1)</span></span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-56625372915731828902015-07-06T08:20:00.001+01:002015-07-06T08:20:33.621+01:00Oxi does it.. <br><br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>Greece's decisive vote against the terms of its <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ce97&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">bail-out deal leads the news agenda this morning</a>, with early results suggesting that the "no" (Oxi) campaign won by a 61-39 margin. The scale of the No vote has stunned European leaders and financial markets, and has given the reputation of pollsters - who said right until the eve of polling that the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ceb6&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">result was too close to call</a> - a further knock. You can follow all the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ceb7&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">fall-out on our excellent liveblog here</a>.</p><p>Yanis Varoufakis has announced his resignation as Greece's finance minister, suggesting that Eurozone leaders wanted his head before they welcomed prime minister Alexis Tsipras back to the negotiating table. "I shall wear the creditors' loathing with pride," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ceb8" target="_blank">he wrote on his blog</a>. The eurozone is still taking in the result, with Angela Merkel meeting with Francois Hollande later today, while David Cameron and George Osborne plan to hold an emergency meeting. Others have been quicker to react, with Merkel ally Hans Michelbach lambasting Greece for choosing "a path of isolation". Italy's foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni offered an olive branch, saying: "Now it is right to start trying for an agreement again."</p><p>The "Greferendum" makes most of today's front pages. "Meltdown", says the Mail, "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ceb9" target="_blank">Europe in turmoil as Greece nears exit</a>", we say, "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ceba" target="_blank">Greeky Bum Time</a>", says the Sun. "So what does Greece's no vote mean? EU leaders warned that it would see Greece crash out of the eurozone, while Tsipras insisted it would merely force them back to thrash out a better bailout deal. Greece's no vote "may appear irrational, but it is also understandable," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cebb&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">we say</a>. Tsipras has his mandate, he must <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cebc&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">make the best of it</a>.</p></font></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03365/ADAMS20150706_3365472k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ministers are set to go further in capping welfare payments than the proposed <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cebd&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">£23,000-a-year household limit</a> set out in the party's election manifesto, George Osborne has hinted. He has also ruled out <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cebe&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">cutting the top rate of tax will not be cut to 40p</a>, revealing that he has now found £12 billion of cuts to Britain's welfare bill. The Chancellor said the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cebf&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">BBC had to make "a contribution"</a> to the budget cuts, and is also set to signal that <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec0&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">almost one in four civil servants </a>could lose their jobs. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec1&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">Chris Hope has rounded up everything we know </a>about what will be in Osborne's statement.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as Boris Johnson urged the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec2" target="_blank">Chancellor to cut the top rate of tax to 40p </a>and called for all workers to be paid the living wage. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec3&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">Writing in today's Telegraph</a>, he said: "We should be cutting taxes all round – cutting the top rate as well as lifting the thresholds and taking the poor out of tax."</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec4&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">Institute of Directors has urged </a>Osborne to radically cut back the complexity of the British tax system when he delivers his emergency budget. "He will have the scope to do some really big things and to go down as a radical Chancellor," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec5&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">says Roger Bootle</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">CORBYN ABSORBIN' SUPPORT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Labour MPs' decision to help the leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn enter the party's leadership race appears to be backfiring after Britain's biggest trade union told members to vote for him. Corbyn, who has been on Labour's hard Left for decades, only made it onto the ballot paper last month with minutes to spare after MPs lent him their votes to broaden the debate. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec6&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">Read more here</a>. Corbyn's growing support could see Liz Kendall pushed into fourth place, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec7" target="_blank">according to the Times' Sam Coates</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">U-KIP ON WAITING, PEARSON</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The UK Independence Party could have to wait until 2020 before it is allowed any peers in the House of Lords – despite winning the support of millions of voters at the general election. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has told Lord Pearson of Rannoch that he will consider new Ukip peers "over the course of this Parliament", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec8&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">in a letter seen by Chris Hope</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">UP IN THE AIR</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The government's dithering over airpor expansion is potentially costing Britain tens of billions of pounds due to lost trade to emerging economies, the Confederation of British Industry. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cec9" target="_blank">The Mirror's Jack Blanchard has the story</a>. "The Prime Minister has created the right conditions to make a third runway at Heathrow deliverable," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ceca&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">writes Sir Nigel Rudd, chairman of Heathrow airport.</a> "He can be assured that this is a new plan, ready for takeoff."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">KIDS AREN'T ALRIGHT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kids Company, the youth charity founded by the flamboyant campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh, could face an inquiry from the charity watchdog amid concerns over how millions of pounds of public money have been spent, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cecb&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">John Bingham reports</a>. The Charity Commission said it had been in contact with the group's trustees over the weekend to "urgently assess" whether concerns about supply of funding could cast doubt over its future.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TAKING THE TAXPAYER FOR A RIDE?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Ministry of Defence has pledged to review its use of a fleet of cars that is costing £120 million each year, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cecc" target="_blank">the Times' Callum Jones reports</a>. Taxpayers are understood to be footing the bill for an average of 29,000 short-notice trips and 21,000 longer term leases of vehicles each month. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WHO'LL FOLLOW ROBBO?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The BBC is thought to be looking to appoint a woman as the face of the Corporation's political news after it emerged that Nick Robinson is likely to step down. Robinson, who has been BBC political editor for the past decade, is rumoured to be likely to be moving to a presenter's role on the corporation's flagship Today programme on Radio Four. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cecd&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>DANCZUK DIVIDE</strong><br><br>The split between Simon Danczuk and his wife Karen became a public spat after he accused her of having an affair with her personal trainer, while she denounced him as "arrogant" and an "alcoholic", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cece&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">Camilla Turner reports</a>. The Labour MP for Rochdale and Mrs Danczuk – dubbed "queen of the selfie" for posting racy photos of herself online – announced a week ago that they were separating.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03364/050715-MATT-WEB_3364920a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183cecf" target="_blank">@ObsoleteDogma</a>: The fewer tries it takes you to spell "Dijsselbloem", the worse the euro crisis is.</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Boris Johnson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced0&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">Let's cut taxes for people at the top and the bottom</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tim Stanley - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced1&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">Greece has captured its conqueror. Now the EU should forgive and restructure the debt<br></a></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced1&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced1&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank"></a>Sir Nigel Rudd - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced2&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">This Budget need not be a Greek tragedy if Osborne has ambition</a><span lang=""></span></span></font></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From the Politics blog</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asa Bennett - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced3&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">The 7 Conservatives who want to be Mayor of London</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paola Buonadonna - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced4&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">The EU's handling of the Greek crisis risks helping the 'better-off-outers'</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Verity Ryan - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced5&WT.mc_id=e_DM29309&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_06&utm_campaign=DM29309" target="_blank">If we want to tackle extremism, we need to make a better offer</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Mary Dejevsky - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced6" target="_blank">The Greeks said No – but to what exactly?</a><br><br></font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Edward Luce - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced7" target="_blank">The US is a helpless bystander on Greece</a><br><br></span><span lang="">Emma Reynolds - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced8" target="_blank">Labour is calling for a more ambitious devolution agenda to every part of the country<br></a></span></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced8" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced8" target="_blank"><span lang=""><strong></strong></span></a><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">12.00 Deadline for Tory nominations for London Mayor close<br>12.30 Lib Dem leadership contender <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hc0610ec,183ce92,183ced9" target="_blank">Norman Lamb in live Q&A on Left Foot Forward</a><br>14.30 MPs quiz Theresa May in the Commons<br>MPs resume debate on Scotland Bill<br>Ukip deadline to balance books or face fine after election 'overspend'<br>Peers debate EU referendum and reform agenda<br>Sir Howard Davies discusses work of Airports Commission at evening supper event during the Runways UK conference in London<br>Unite meets to discuss future of its links with the Labour party at its Rules Conference in Brighton</span></font></p><p><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">On this day</font></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The International Olympic Committee announced the 2012 Olympic Games would be held in London<br></span></font></p><p></p><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12">14:30</a>: Home Office questions (topicals <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13">at 15:15</a>)<br>Presentation of Bills: Bat Habitats Regulation Bill; UK Borders Control Bill; Illegal Immigrants (Criminal Sanctions) Bill; House of Lords (Maximum Membership) Bill; Benefit Entitlement (Restriction) Bill; Overseas Voters Bill; Convicted Prisoners Voting Bill; European Parliament Elections Bill; Working Time Directive (Limitation) Bill; Off-Shore Wind Farm Subsidies (Restriction) Bill (Christopher Chope, Con, Christchurch)<br></span><span lang=""><br><em>Main business</em><br>Scotland Bill: Committee (Day 4 of 4)<br>Adjournment debate: Proposed Cardiff City deal (Craig Williams, Con, Cardiff North)</span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF LORDS</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15">14:30</a>: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br>- Lord Dykes (Lib Dem): When they expect to announce the results of their discussions about the European Union reform agenda with other member states.<br>- Baroness Wheatcroft (Con): Whether the effects of algorithmic trading are being monitored and sufficiently regulated.<br>- Baroness Bakewell (Lab): In the light of the report The UK Nursing Workforce: Crisis or Opportunity published by consultants Christie + Co on 3 June, which highlighted a serious staff shortage in care homes, what proportion of new apprenticeships will be in the care sector.<br>- Lord Lexden (Con): Whether they will fulfil their commitment to extend full voting rights to all United Kingdom citizens overseas before the referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union.<br><br><em>Main business</em><br>European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL]: Second Reading<br>Childcare Bill [HL]: Committee (day 2)<br>Question for short debate on what assessment Her Majesty's Government have made of the political situation in the Gaza strip (Baroness Tonge, Lib Dem) (1.5 hours)<br>Question for short debate on what assessment Her Majesty's Government have made of the contribution of Britain's ethnic minorities to faith communities and public institutions in the United Kingdom (Baroness Berridge, Con) (1.5 hours)</font></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-88634505022182237732015-07-03T08:22:00.001+01:002015-07-03T08:22:02.443+01:00More Greece.. <br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Greece's economy is still sinking into an economic quagmire, as <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d62eb&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on this morning's front page </a>that the country could be out of cash by the weekend. Lenders are down to their last €500m, while the Greek treasury is rationing foreign funds for companies on a top priority basis - as business leaders plead for assistance. "We are on a war footing in this country," said finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.</font></span></p><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>As Greece starts to run out of money, the daily allowance of cash from many ATM machines has already dropped from €60 to €50. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6328" target="_blank">Varoufakis told Bloomberg TV</a> that he has not had to use any Greek ATM since capital controls came in over the weekend, insisting it would be "inappropriate" - although he divulged that he was living a "very frugal" life. He also promised to quit government if Greeks voted "Yes" in the referendum to accept the current bailout proposals, which he said he'd rather cut his arm off than enact. </p><p>The International Monetary Fund has given a stark take on Greece's economic crisis, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6329&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">concluding that it needs at least another €50bn </a>to keep it afloat for the next three years and substantial alleviation of its debt burden. This has been <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d632a" target="_blank">seized upon by Varoufakis as proof that Greece's debt </a>is unsustainable, and that Greeks should vote "no" to get a better deal with debt relief. Will they agree? Public support is swinging between the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d632b&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">"Yes" and "No" sides in the polls like a pendulum</a>, so predicting the way Greeks will vote is <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d632c" target="_blank">practically </a>a coin toss.<span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span></span></p></font></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03362/isilation_3362158a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DON'T BE NIC-IL TO ISIL</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The BBC has been condemned by the government after claiming that it has to be impartial when reporting on Isil, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d632d&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Steve Swinford reports</a>. Lord Hall, the head of the BBC, has rejected calls from a cross-party group of 120 MPs to stop using the name Islamic State and because it would "gives the impression of support" for its opponents. "By refusing to the word Daesh because it is pejorative, Lord Hall exposes a BBC mindset so wrapped up in its own rectitude that it has lost all touch with reality and with the real meaning of impartiality," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d632e&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">writes Stephen Pollard</a>. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our sketchwriter Michael Deacon, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d632f&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">who watched MPs try to decide what to call them</a>, wrote: "Several MPs agreed it should just be Daesh. They couldn't, however, agree how to pronounce it. We heard Dye-eesh, Dye-ish, Dye-esh, Dayshe and Dyshe. Clearly this is not a satisfactory state of affairs. Something must be done. To meet the BBC's need for impartiality while recognising the Prime Minister's concerns about Islamist propaganda, I propose that from now on the terrorists be referred to as The So-Called Islamic-But-Not-Truly-Islamic State-But-Not-Truly-a-State. Or TSCIBNTISBNTAS for short."</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Britain could launch air strikes against Isil in Syria within months after Labour signalled that it is prepared to back the Conservatives in the wake of the Tunisia terrorist attack. The Conservatives are preparing to put the issue to a vote despite a backlash from some Tory back-benchers, who have warned that military action could bolster the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the Syria dictator. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6330&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DELIVER US FROM EVEL</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The SNP has reacted with fury to the government's plans for English votes for English laws, condemning them as "constitutional bilge" and warning that they will help break up the Union, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6331&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Steve Swinford reports</a>. Chris Grayling the leader of the Commons, said that English MPs will have their voice "recognised in our great Union of nations" for the first time under the plans, adding that the government's plans will "answer the West Lothian question".</span></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6332&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Writing in today's Telegraph</a>, Grayling said: "We need a fair devolution settlement. We need a new relationship with the European Union. We need a fair system of electoral boundaries. We need to give back to British citizens who have chosen to live for long periods overseas the right to vote and influence the future of the country that they and their children may one day return to...Now it is time to consider England and reddress the balance of fairness throughout the UK."</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some are puzzled why the SNP, led in the Commons by Angus Robertson, are so outraged. "He just wants to maintain the right for Scottish MPs to interfere in English-only laws as a weapon in his armoury, while at the same time repeating the age-old lines about how the nasty Westminster Tories are attacking the poor old Scots again," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6333&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">writes Julia Hartley-Brewer</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">PARTY LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Could Labour be on its way out of Westminster? <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6334" target="_blank">According to Estates Gazette's Chris Berkin</a>, the party is vacating its headquarters at Brewers Green, SW1, and is considering moving south of the river - as part of a range of options - in its search for 10,000 sq ft of new office space. Meanwhile, Ukip is looking for a new 1,000 sq ft office in Westminster, and the Liberal Democrats are considering whether they need to vacate their HQ - with a source suggesting that the party could sub-let some of its existing office space.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">LAMB TURNS SUPERGRASS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scores of Conservative Government ministers have "almost certainly" tried illegal drugs, according to a senior Liberal Democrat MP. Speaking at an event organised by the Institute of Public Policy Research thinktank <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">on Wednesday evening</a>, Norman Lamb, the MP for North Norfolk, said that more half of ministers in this Government had smoked cannabis, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6335&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THE AXEMAN COMETH </font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Families in most of the country could see their annual cap on benefit claims cut to £20,000, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6336" target="_blank">the Mail's Tamara Cohen reports</a>. This comes as the Chancellor considers whether to cut state benefits paid to thousands of sick and disabled people by £30 a week as part of the £12bn of planned welfare cuts, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6337" target="_blank">according to the Independent</a>'s Andrew Grice.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">ASTRAY ON CALAIS?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paddy Power has been accused of a crass stunt mocking the Calais immigration crisis as <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6338&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith found </a>that the acting Labour leader's son was part of the team that created the poster. Harry Dromey, the son of Harriet Harman, works for the advertising team which took a lorry to Calais carrying a poster urging foreigners to "jump in the back" if they were good at sport. This comes as a major new study by the OECD found that foreigners are more likely to have jobs in the UK than British workers, as Britain is one of the most attractive countries in the world for migrants. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6339&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Matthew Holehouse has the story</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">NOTHING COMPARES TO U(KIP)</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigel Farage has been backed as the head of the 'No' campaign for EU withdrawl by an unlikely source - the head of Labour's "Yes" campaign, Alan Johnson. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d633a" target="_blank">Speaking to the Huffington Post UK</a>, the former shadow chancellor said: "He would be the very person you would want to lead a [No] campaign. This has to be about the future. Young people in particular have to be galvanised about this because it is their future as well...I think Nigel puts them off."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">BAGMAN AND ROBIN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Conservative MP Stephen Phillips has offered to team up with SNP colleague Martin Docherty to protest in the House of Commons the ban on taking a manbag into debates, claiming that it "perpetuates stigma and gender stereotypes". 'We will both bring in our bags and see whether we are upbraided by the Chair and receive some sort of censure for doing so," Phillips threatened. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d633b" target="_blank">You can read their remarks here</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">MERKILEAKS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">British intelligence spied on German leaders as they discussed how to bailout Greece in 2011, newly released cables by Wikileaks purport to show. British officials passed intelligence to the US National Security Agency on proposals by Germany to ask developing nations to help rescue Athens. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d633c&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Matthew Holehouse has more</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">LET IN THE SUN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Liz Kendall has promised, if she wins the Labour leadership, not to shut out newspapers that are critical of Labour like the Sun from her events, reversing what happened under Ed Miliband during the election campaign. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d633d" target="_blank">She told the Sun's Tom Newton-Dunn</a> that she would let him attend, but warned: "If you stripped naked and ran in front of me, Tom, I might have second thoughts about it."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">MEET "SOUTH LONDON'S SEPP BLATTER"</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Cabinet Office is refusing to provide more funding to Kids Company, the high-profile London children's charity, unless its chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh - dubbed the "South London Sepp Blatter" by a former employee - steps down, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d633e" target="_blank">BBC Newsnight and BuzzFeed has found</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>LIBERAL WITH THE ATTENTION<br><br></strong>Liberal Democrat MPs are set to be out-numbered by journalists from the BBC at this party's conference in September by a ratio of 25 to one, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d633f&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. The LibDems said that 200 BBC staff have registered to cover the four day conference in September, despite the party having just eight MPs.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOUGH ON CRIME...</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Criminals convicted of a second knife offence will face jail as David Cameron enacts one of the Conservative's flagship pledges later this month. Adults convicted of an offence involving a knife for a second time will face minimum sentences of at least six months, while those aged 16 to 18 will get at least four months detention or a training order. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6340&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, the government has been told to increase litter fines because the middle classes no longer see stigma with dropping rubbish. The calls came as peers criticised the piles of "rubble and rubbish" left behind at the Glastonbury music festival as "symbolic" of the scale of the problem. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6341&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03362/030715-MATT-WEB_3362789a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6342" target="_blank">@IainMartin1</a>: 30 Britons murdered on a beach in Tunisia. And the argument is over what to call the terrorists who did it. Really?</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chris Grayling - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6343&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Keep Scottish MPs out of English issues</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fraser Nelson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6344&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Strikes in Syria are meaningless if we keep slashing our military</a><span lang=""></span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stephen Pollard - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6345&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">The BBC is worried about upsetting terrorists. How disturbing</a><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6346&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank"></a></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6346&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6346&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank"><em><strong></strong></em></a><em><strong>From the Politics blog</strong></em></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asa Bennett - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6347&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">Why are the polls on Greece's referendum so crazy?</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">James Kirkup - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6348&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">What if Ken Clarke had become Conservative leader?</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Damian Collins - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d6349&WT.mc_id=e_DM28759&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_03&utm_campaign=DM28759" target="_blank">The French government must be forced to stop the chaos at Calais</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Natalie Nougayrède - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d634a" target="_blank">Tsipras can turn away, or help Europe reinvent itself</a><br></font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Iliana Magra - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d634b" target="_blank">The past five days have been worse than all that has gone before</a><br><br></span><span lang="">Mark Leonard - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbdaa3c8,17d62e6,17d634c" target="_blank">Why even Scandinavia is moving to the right</a><br></span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">AGENDA</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">12.00 UK observes one minute's silence to remember Tunisia terror victims<br>19.00 Tim Farron MP and Norman Lamb MP participate in a leadership hustings in Stratford-upon-Avon <br>20.00 'Any Questions?' features Chris Grayling, Khalid Mahmood and Vicky Pryce <br>Labour leadership hustings at Unison</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Labour MP Stephen Pound turns 67, while Labour MP colleague Katy Clark turns 48<br>Michael Martin, John Bercow's predecessor as Commons speaker, turns 70<br></span></font></p><p></p><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">No business today</font></em></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-89964731100953301892015-07-02T09:00:00.001+01:002015-07-02T09:00:40.558+01:00<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3pY8E--96Tg/VZTvqKyVSfI/AAAAAAAAGVQ/qCRjl_YkLk8/s1600/IMG_3732-740559.JPG"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3pY8E--96Tg/VZTvqKyVSfI/AAAAAAAAGVQ/qCRjl_YkLk8/s320/IMG_3732-740559.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6166817297506060786" /></a></p>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-558566221769454602015-07-02T08:56:00.000+01:002015-07-02T08:58:20.230+01:00On the brink. Again. <br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Alexis Tsipras remained defiant towards Greece's international creditors yesterday, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17af73b&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">refusing in a televised address </a>to call off Sunday's referendum, despite being threatened with financial ruin and a banking collapse as early as next week. </span><span lang="">"Come Monday, the Greek government will be at the negotiating table after the referendum, with better terms for the Greek people," the Greek premier insisted, accusing the country's creditors of trying to "blackmail" voters with stark warnings. </span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Despite his seeming belligerence, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc82" target="_blank">the FT got its hands on a letter </a>sent by Tsipras to his eurozone counterparts offering to accept most of the austerity terms in a bailout deal that he had described last week as "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc83&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">humiliation</a>", with only a <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc84" target="_blank">few minor changes</a>. "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc85" target="_blank">Greek reversal sows confusion</a>", read the NYT's front page. </font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span><span lang="">Meanwhile, the Germans can't hide their irritation, with an ally of Angela Merkel ridiculing Tsipras' "dumb" referendum. The German chancellor has dismissed Tsipras' conciliatory tone, remarking: "There can be no negotiations on a new aid programme until after the referendum". It is now an "open secret", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc86" target="_blank">the Guardian reports</a>, that Merkel's government "would be happy to see Tsipras fall". In the meantime, they are maintaining that Sunday's referendum is effectively a vote on whether to stay in the euro. </span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">With Greece now in the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc87&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">biggest arrears process in the IMF's history</a>, will the pressure get to Tsipras? "Syriza officials are fully aware that the likely consequence of a "No" vote would be a parallel currency - or IOUs - along with the nationalisation of the banks" <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc88&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard</a>. "You might wonder whether Mr Tsipras has not in fact lured European leaders and officials into a legal trap, and that they have fallen for the bait. His Byzantine negotiating tactics may make perfect sense after all. Just a thought."</span><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span></span></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03361/AdamsTsiprasMerkel_3361457a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">FIGHT OF THE CONCORD</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron has abandoned a "no ifs, no buts" pledge to block a third runway at Heathrow and told his Cabinet not make public statements about their opposition to airport expansion, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc89&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Peter Dominiczak reports</a>. "If Mr Cameron cannot bring himself to overrule his colleagues, he could pass the decision to the House of Commons in a free vote, ensuring whichever airport is chosen has a clear mandate from the start," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc8a&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">we say</a>. "Alternatively, if Mr Cameron plans to capitulate to his party and choose Gatwick, he should say so quickly and openly."</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Other papers share the impatience. "The government must get on with commissioning a runway that will actually get built," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc8b" target="_blank">says the Times</a>. "For our grandchildren's sake, Mr Cameron must get a move on – and end one of the longest episodes of political cowardice in our history," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc8c" target="_blank">says the Mail</a>. "If our airport capacity must be expanded, get on with it," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc8d" target="_blank">the Independent says</a>. "Like passengers delayed in an airport lounge, frustration at the dithering is at boiling point."</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as the Prime Minister was accused by Harriet Harman of being "bullied by Boris" - the London Mayor - in his stance over Heathrow. "On TV a few hours earlier, he [Boris] had gibbered that building a third runway would be the sort of outrage he'd expect from "Communist China","<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc8e&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank"> writes our sketchwriter Michael Deacon</a>. "The Little Red Book is curiously silent on the subject of Heathrow, but it's possible that Mao was saving up his opinions on it for a sequel, sadly denied us by his death."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">ANTI-ISIL PLANS ICED</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The United States has blocked attempts by its Middle East allies to fly heavy weapons directly to the Kurds fighting Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc8f&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Con Coughlin has learnt</a>. "If Mr Cameron and other Western leaders are really serious about preventing a repeat of the appalling scenes witnessed last week at Sousse, then they need to come up with a far more convincing strategy – one that guarantees Isil is destroyed," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc90&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Coughlin writes</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, the BBC Director General has refused to ban the term Islamic State in the corporation's reports. After 120 MPs signed a letter asking for it not to be used, Tony Hall said - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc91&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">in a letter seen by the Times </a>- that any alternative name would be "pejorative" and the broadcaster must remain "impartial".</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">A CLASS OF THEIR OWN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Traditional degree marks will become obsolete and a new 13-point system will be introduced because too many students are receiving firsts and 2:1s, universities minister Jo Johnson has announced. He said the current system of marking university students, which was developed in 1918, is "no longer capable" of giving employers the information they need. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc92&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Michael Wilkinson has the story</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as education minister Lord Nash said teachers can lawfully "confiscate, keep or destroy" unhealthy snacks in children's school lunch boxes. Answering a question in the House of Lords, he said that the child in question and a second member of staff should be present during the search. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc93&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Read more here</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">END POVERTY NOW, IDS-STYLE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The definition of child poverty will be changed, Iain Duncan Smith has announced as the government attacked the current measurement as "deeply flawed". Child poverty will no longer be defined as 60 per cent of the average income but through a series of indicators including exam results and whether parents are in work. Labour, however, attacked it as the "obituary for compassionate conservatism" and said action rather than changing definitions was needed to tackle child poverty. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc94&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Read more here</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOUCH OF EVEL</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron has said that the wishes of English MPs will never again be "overruled" by those in Scotland as his government announces plans to give them a veto on English-only laws, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc95&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Steven Swinford reports</a>. Chris Grayling, the leader of the Commons, is expected to unveil plans to use a parliamentary procedure known as a standing order to stop Scottish MPs from shaping legislation that only affects English voters.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">FALLON GETS SYRI-OUS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Michael Fallon has for the first time indicated that Britain is considering bombing jihadists from the so-called Islamic State in Syria, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc96&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. He said it was "illogical" for Britain to take part in bombing campaigns against Islamic State, or Isil, in Iraq but not Syria. This comes as the Defence Secretary admitted that the government is struggling to meet its pledge for recruiting reservists to the Armed Forces, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc97&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith reports</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">CLINTON'S E-CARDS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hillary Clinton ridiculed David Cameron's "wacky" attempt to torpedo the Lisbon Treaty while he was Opposition leader, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc98&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">newly released emails reveal</a>. Cameron's "high-handed" attempt to sink the European treaty had "seriously damaged" his relationship with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, before he even entered office, Clinton was told by a close aide. </span></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc99&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Other messages also suggested </a>that Tony Blair asked Hillary Clinton to lobby Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, on his behalf in support of his bid to become President of the European Union. Further e-mails also shed light on Cherie Blair's apparent efforts to lobby Hillary Clinton to meet with a senior member of the Qatari royal family, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc9a&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Raf Sanchez reports</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">OH YES, MINISTER!</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">House of Commons officials have launched an internal investigation after five laptops in public meeting rooms were used to access porn. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc9b" target="_blank">One MP told the Sun's Kate McCann</a>: "This is really shocking stuff and clearly there needs to be a system in place that finds out who is accessing these sites." This comes after official figures (<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc9c" target="_blank">revealed by yours truly</a>) suggested that MPs, Lords and parliamentary staff had been trying to access adult websites potentially thousands of times.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DRILL SEEKERS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fracking is likely to wipe up to seven per cent off house prices and deter tourists, according to an internal Government report that ministers battled to keep secret, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc9d&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Emily Gosden reports</a>. Houses within five miles of shale gas drilling sites could face higher insurance premiums due to the risk of explosions and residents' health could suffer due to noise and pollution, it said.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">SO RIGHT, IT'S WRONG</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigel Farage is "right too often" about the failings of the European Union, the vice president of the commission has said. Frans Timmermans, the second most powerful man in Brussels, said he is "terribly annoyed" by how frequently the leader of the UK Independence Party appeared to correctly diagnose the bloc's failings – particularly its handling of the migration crisis – even when he strongly disagrees with his proposed solutions, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc9e&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Matthew Holehouse reports</a>. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Douglas Carswell - who was of plotting to oust Farage as party leader after the election - appears now to have patched things up. Speaking at an IPPR event, the Clacton MP quipped: "The parliamentary party is very democratic. I had a rebellion, I put it down brutally and savagely." <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afc9f" target="_blank">HuffPostUK's Ned Simons has more.</a></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03361/020715-MATT-web_3361143a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca0" target="_blank">@DanielleCodd</a>: When reusing teabag at breakfast in #Athens hotel waiter tells me "there's no point economising because the economy is broken anyway"</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Allister Heath - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca1&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">The Chancellor must stun us with a radical tax-cutting Budget</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Con Coughlin - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca2&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Our Arab allies are being hung out to dry in the fight against Isil</a><span lang=""></span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Harry De Quetteville - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca3&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Sir Nicholas Winton: A list of Schindlers</a></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca3&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca3&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank"><em><strong></strong></em></a><em><strong>From the Politics blog</strong></em></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr Kristian Niemietz - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca4&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Politicians can't be trusted on Heathrow expansion</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Allan Massie - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca5&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">We will never be able to negotiate with Islamic State. So what other options are there?</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asa Bennett - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca6&WT.mc_id=e_DM28433&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_02&utm_campaign=DM28433" target="_blank">Could slashing the top rate of tax to 40p put off blue-collar Tories?</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Seumas Milne - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca7" target="_blank">Syriza can't just cave in. Europe's elites want regime change in Greece</a></font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Jenni Russell - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca8" target="_blank">Greece needs our help not our hectoring</a><br><br></span><span lang="">Thom Feeney - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbca7b16,17af736,17afca9" target="_blank">Why I set up the Greek bailout crowdfund</a></span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">AGENDA</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MPs debate English votes for English laws proposals, and bombing Isil in Syria.<br>Lords debate airports and national security. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">11.50 Harriet Harman speech at LGA conference<br>13.30 Communities Secretary Greg Clark speaks at LGA confernece<br>18.00 International Development Secretary Justine Greening speaks at an Overseas Development Institute event <br>19.00 Labour Party candidates for the London mayoral election attend a hustings on housing <br>19.30 Business Secretary Sajid Javid attends a Conservative Way Forward event <br>22.35 'Question Time' from Essex features Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn and Jeremy Hunt<br>Information Commissioner's Office to publish its annual report<br>UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova is to give a speech at RUSI on the threat of cultural destruction from Isis</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ken Clarke celebrates 75th birthday</span></font></p><p></p><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">9.30 Oral questions - Attorney General; Women and Equalities<br></span><span lang="">Business Statement - Leader of the House<br>Debate - Britain and International Security<br>Adjournment debate on Hatfield Colliery and the low carbon transition led by Edward Miliband</span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF LORDS</font></strong></span></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>10.00 Oral questions<br>Start date for building a new London airport runway and when it will be ready for use - Lord Spicer<br>Establishing a Constitutional Convention and publishing a white paper on the consequences of fiscal autonomy for Scotland - Lord Forsyth of Drumlean<br>Reconciliation talks between the President of Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot community leader in Northern Cyprus - Lord Anderson of Swansea<br>Assessment made of the level of threat posed by ISIL to the United Kingdom - Lord West of Spithead</p><p>Debate on Human rights and civil liberties in the UK - Lord Wallace of Tankerness, Lord Faulks<br>Debate on UK's role in a world threatened by terrorism, conflict, climate change and mass migration - Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, Baroness Anelay of St Johns<br>Short debate on Help for those with Type 1 and 2 diabetes to educate themselves on disease management - Lord Harrison, Lord Prior of Brampton</p><p><span lang=""></span></p></font></span><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WESTMINSTER HALL</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">13.30 Education and the sustainable development goals - Mr Mark Williams<br>15.00 Iranian nuclear programme - Ian Austin</font></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-51950045446618441872015-07-01T14:07:00.001+01:002015-07-01T14:07:48.033+01:00It's Heathrow.. <br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">An almighty row on aviation has taken off this morning after Sir Howard Davies' Airports Commission judged that building a third runway at Heathrow is the "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cef1&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">strongly, unanimously preferred option</a>", arguing that it was the "best" way of adding long haul routes to new markets which it said were "urgently required".</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Sir Howard insisted that it could only go ahead with strict noise and environmental controls, with night flights banned as well. But he has drawn the wrath of Heathrow sceptics like Boris Johnson, who declared that his report "will be filed vertically for years to come". Speaking earlier to Chris Hope, the London Mayor insisted further expansion was "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cef2&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">undeliverable and not going to happen</a>". </span><span lang="">Cabinet ministers like Theresa May, Philip Hammond and Greg Hands are also opposed, while <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cef3&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">David Cameron pledged "no ifs, no buts" in 2009 </a>to stop it. Conservative London Mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith has <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cef4&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">previously pledged to leave the Tories </a>if a third runway goes ahead. </span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span><span lang="">Faced with this opposition, the government isn't rushing to decide what to do, but it is playing down Sir Howard's report as "not a legally binding document or ruling" and "not definitive". Senior government sources have <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cef5&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">told the Telegraph </a>that Cameron is unlikely to back a major expansion of Heathrow because he "does not want to break his promise to voters". Is the government preparing to quietly ignore the report? </span><span lang="">Heathrow may have come out on top, but Sir Howard also praised expanding Gatwick as "credible". "The decision to expand at Gatwick has already been made," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cef6" target="_blank">a Tory MP told the Sun</a>. However, if ministers opt for this, other Tory MPs will rise up, with a group describing the idea as a "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cef7&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">disaster waiting to happen</a>". </span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span><span lang="">Sir Howard's conclusion has come after three years, with business pressing for a <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cef8&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">swift decision in order to keep Britain economically competitive</a>. As politicians keep bickering, how long will it be until something actually gets built?</span></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03359/ADAMS20150701_3359561k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">#GREFAULT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Greece has become the first developed country in history to default to the International Monetary Fund, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cef9&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Mehreen Khan reports</a>. The cash-strapped nation failed to make a €1.5bn payment to the IMF by an <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">11pm</a> deadline on Tuesday, triggering an arrears process which was last suffered by Zimbabwe in 2001. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jeremy Warner sees echoes of Greece in <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cefa&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Britain's growing reliance on debt-fuelled growth, writing</a>: "Whereas the eurozone has forced the pace of fiscal adjustment, disastrously it should be said, Britain has responded with what may prove to be an unsustainable degree of policy accommodation." Meanwhile, Mary Riddell says it's time for <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cefb&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Labour to stop standing idly by, writing</a>: "The Greek debacle offers it a chance to demonstrate that it could combine a firm grip on the public finances with a human heart."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">BURN' AFTER READING</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Andy Burnham was caught using a crib sheet to answer questions about the cost of living during a Labour hustings, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cefc&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Steven Swinford reports</a>. This came as the Labour leadership frontrunner and his rivals were asked a series of questions on the cost of everyday items and benefits rates, and he got the £20.70 rate of child benefit exactly right. Pointing out the notes, Kevin Maguire, the journalist hosting the event, said: "Pint of milk 50p, where do you pay that? I can get four pints for a quid at the supermarket."</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Even in Waitrose a pint is only 49p, so Mr Burnham must have highly sophisticated tastes in dairy," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cefd&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">says our sketchwriter Michael Deacon</a>. ""You can get four pints for a quid!" piped up Liz Kendall, ruthless as ever in her determination to seize the centre ground".</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">111's LIFE-OR-DEATH DELAY</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Patients who call the NHS 111 service are being denied ambulances even if they are experiencing symptoms of a heart attack, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cefe&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">a Telegraph investigation has found</a>. The 111 service was set up as a non-emergency alternative to 999 to relieve pressure on the health system, with call centre staff expected to dispatch ambulances if patients describe symptoms of a serious illness. One call-centre mentor told trainee staff that "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178ceff&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">everyone in this room has killed someone</a>". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf00&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Lyndsey Telford has written more </a>about what she saw when handling life-or-death calls.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">A STUDY IN PINK</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Children's television shows like Peppa Pig should feature more homosexual characters, one of the two contenders to lead the Liberal Democrats has said. Norman Lamb, who is battling with rival Tim Farron to succeed Nick Clegg, told PinkNews that it was not "out of bounds" that characters on the popular Channel Five programme should be homosexual. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf01&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Christopher Hope has more</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">MCMASTER BLASTER</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Britain is "deluded" if it thinks that it can cut the number of soldiers while relying on new technology to bridge the gap, a senior US commander has suggested. Lieutenant General Herbert McMaster, the head of the US Army's Capabilities Integration Centre, said that the rise of "determined and increasingly elusive" there will be a "greater and greater" demand for manpower. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf02&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">FUELLING A NEW ROW</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">George Osborne may hit drivers in next month's Budget with a £4bn fuel tax hike, after keeping it frozen for five years, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf03" target="_blank">according to the Sun</a>. A source told the paper: "When our economic plan says 'freezing fuel duty', we can't say, 'Oh, we meant in real terms not cash terms'."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TACKY TWITTER TIFF</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Labour MP Simon Danczuk has taken to Twitter to criticise his "tacky" wife Karen for using their "family break-up to help a 'friend' promote his gym", after the pair announced their break-up this week. The 34-year-old former Labour councillor, who gained notoriety for posting a series of racy selfie pictures online, said that she could not ignore that she had gone from "fat, frumpy Karen to happy, confident and sexy Karen" thanks to the help of her married trainer. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf04&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Michael Wilkinson has more</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">PHWOAR-LIAMENT</font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://sexymp.co.uk/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">Sexymp.co.uk</a>, a website which rates MPs for their sex appeal was accessed nearly half a million times on parliamentary computers last year, making it the most popular banned website at Parliament, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf05&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">it has emerged</a>. The next most popular banned adult website was the Urban Dictionary, with 155,000 attempted views, of which 8,180 were successful.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DUDE, WHERE'S MY FERRET?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A cautionary tale about the dangers of ferrets that like to explore up people's trouser legs left peers in the House of Lords in fits of laughter. Labour's Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton issued the message at question time in the Lords. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf06&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Read more about her stark warning here</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>SLACKS N' CRACKS ON FRACK</strong> </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A secret report into the impact of fracking on house prices should and will be published, energy minister Andrea Leadsom has said, opening up a rift with the environment department over the controversial issue, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf07&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">Emily Gosden report</a>s. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which commissioned the report, published parts of it last year in response to a request from campaigners but redacted 63 passages.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong>TOP OF THE CHARTS</strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIqbP8dWoAAnedq.png:large" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>This chart, by Electoral Calculus' Martin Baxter, shows how voters drifted from parties they previously backed in this May's election, charting their move from Labour and the Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives and to others like the SNP, Ukip and the Greens. <br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf08" target="_blank">Read more here</a>)</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf09" target="_blank">@ReporterBoy:</a> Long airport investigation recommends building new runway at existing biggest airport. Other shock news: July can be hot. Goes back to sleep</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mary Riddell - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf0a&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">As the Greek economy crashes, the Left are standing idly by the road</a><br><span lang=""><p>Allison Pearson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf0b&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">We should demand military action against Islamic State</a></p><p><em><strong>From the Politics blog</strong></em></p><p>Stephen Booth - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf0c&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">How David Cameron can use the Greek debt crisis to get what he wants from the EU</a></p><p>John Redwood - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf0d&WT.mc_id=e_DM28261&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_07_01&utm_campaign=DM28261" target="_blank">The UK either needs to dine à la carte in the EU or leave the restaurant</a></p></span></span></font><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Jo Johnson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf0e" target="_blank">University tutors must sharpen up - or else</a><br></span><span lang=""></span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Richard Angell - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf0f" target="_blank">Go to the dark places</a><br><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf10" target="_blank"><br></a><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf11" target="_blank"></a></font></span></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf11" target="_blank"><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p></a><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hbb53b57,178cdc0,178cf11" target="_blank"><span lang=""><strong></strong></span></a><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">09.00 Defence Secretary Michael Fallon speaks at the RUSI land warfare conference in London <br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">09:30</a> Education Secretary Nicky Morgan speaks at a Sutton Trust event <br>09.30 ONS to publish labour productivity statistics for Q1 2015<br>10.00 Third annual BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Power List revealed<br>10.30 Bank of England's latest Financial Stability Report to be published<br>12.00 PMQs<br>12.30 Liberal Democrat leadership hustings hosted by British Future in London<br>Luxembourg to take over the rotating six-monthly presidency of the Council of the European Union from Latvia<br>Airports Commission final recommendations published<br>16.00 Lib Dem leadership contender Norman Lamb speaking at the Institute for Public Policy Research<br>Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and acting Liberal Democrat leader Baroness Brinton (<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15">16:50</a>) speak at the Local Government Association annual conference in Yorkshire</span></font></p><p><em><u style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">On this day:</font></u></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1997 - Hong Kong handed over to Chinese control</span></font></p><p></p><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">11.30 Oral questions - Cabinet Office, including Topical Questions<br>12.00 Prime Minister's Question Time<br>Opposition Day Debate - (4th allotted day) - a) equal pay and gender pay gap b) tax credits<br>Adjournment debate - effect of corruption on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF LORDS</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">15.00 Oral questions<br>Reintroducing a post-study visa for international students <br>Review to examine all options for the future of RBS, including alternatives to reprivatisation<br>Publication of the Chilcot Report <br>Government's role in discussions and negotiations regarding the Greek financial crisis <br>Childcare Bill [HL] - Committee stage - Committee of the Whole House</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Short debate - Tackling litter in both urban and rural areas </font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WESTMINSTER HALL</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://17" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="17">9.30 - 11.00</a> English votes for English laws and North Wales - Albert Owen<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://19" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="19">11 - 11.30</a> - Treatment of fibromyalgia - Alok Sharma<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://20" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="20">14.30 - 16.00</a> Operational productivity in NHS providers - Dr Matthew Offord<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://22" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="22">16.00 - 16.30</a> Case of Colin Worton - Ian Paisley<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://24" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="24">16.30 - 17.30</a> Performance of the Tyne and Wear Metro - Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck</font></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-3445084494559133292015-06-30T08:46:00.001+01:002015-06-30T08:46:38.126+01:00All alone.. <br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">If Greece ends up leave the eurozone, it won't go quietly - with Yanis Varoufakis threatening to block the country's expulsion from the euro through the courts. "The EU treaties make no provision for euro exit and we refuse to accept it. Our membership is not negotiable," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1f3&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">the Greek finance minister told Ambrose Evans-Pritchard</a>.</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as Greece's bailout officially expires today, leaving it with a €1.6bn IMF loan to repay <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">tonight</a> (<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1f4&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">18.00 Washington time/2300 GMT</a>), something it refuses to do until its citizens vote on the terms of the €12 billion bailout offered by international creditors in a referendum on Sunday. If you want to see how "default day" pans out, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1f5&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">it's worth following Mehreen Khan on our liveblog</a>. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judging by the Greek referendum's baffling 72-word question, asking voters if they like the sound of the "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1f6&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Reforms for the completion of the current program and beyond</a>" (i.e. more austerity), Alexis Tsipras' government is doing its best to nudge Greeks towards voting 'no'. "In the event of a no vote, it's the end of the road for Greek membership of the euro; and if a yes vote, it is presumably the end of the road for Syriza. And that may well have been the game plan all along," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1f7&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">writes Jeremy Warner</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The vote is still days away, but the markets have been getting jittery, with <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1f8&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">£34bn wiped off Britain's FTSE100-listed companies on Monday</a>. Europe's leaders have bluntly warned that <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1f9&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Greece could be forced out of the Eurozone </a>and potentially the EU if voters reject the bailout. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker asked voters not to "commit suicide" by rejecting further austerity. With thousands of Greeks <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1fa&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">taking to the streets to back the no campaign</a>, Juncker didn't quite have a captive audience. One Syriza MP caught the mood in Athens. "Juncker is calling for the overthrow of the government," he said acidly.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What happens if Greece defaults on the loan due today? Christine Lagarde, the fund's head, has warned that it won't be able to provide any more financial aid until the country pays off its debts, but Syriza dismiss such talk as a bluff.. Greece will <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1fb&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">still remain a member of the IMF </a>- at least for two years. Greece could risk much more by missing the payment due <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5">on July 20</a> to the European Central Bank, as it might see emergency liquidity to Greek banks frozen, which would be calamitous as the system is being propped up by ECB money. "Leftist politics have doomed Greece to collapse", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1fc&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">writes Allister Heath</a>, "These are grim days indeed."</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03358/ADAMS20150630_3358727b.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DIAL E FOR EXTREMISM</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">British Muslims must report concerns about family members or friends becoming radicalised or they risk allowing a terror attack in Britain as deadly as the one in Tunisia, David Cameron has said. In a passionate intervention, the Prime Minister said that Muslims in the UK "need to act" if relatives are seeing extremist preachers or visiting radical websites, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1fd&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Peter Dominiczak reports</a>. He also told MPs that "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1fe&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">we will prevail</a>" in the fight against extremism.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"If we are to talk about uniting as a nation, then we need to have a pretty good idea what we are defending," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a1ff&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">writes Philip Johnston</a>. "We did once; but I am not convinced that we do any more."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">ALL IN THE FAMILY</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One in five of the MPs elected in May's general election employs their wives, husbands, children, brothers, sisters and even in one case his father, a new register shows. The decision to offer work to family members in their private offices offers a way for MPs to top up their pay, as the expenses watchdog considers giving them a 11 per cent rise. Which MPs employ a family member? <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a200&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Chris Hope has the full list</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">PLAY EU-R CARDS RIGHT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Business leaders have shown their hand too early by coming out in support of Britain staying in the European Union before negotiations have even begun, the Business secretary has said. Sajid Javid told the Confederation of British Industry, the country's biggest lobby group, that it was wrong to say the UK should remain in the EU "no matter what", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a201&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Steven Swinford reports</a>. He also likened the CBI's position to poor "poker player" who has showed his hand too early.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">ONE EVEL SUMMER</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Proposals to give English MPs a veto on English-only laws will be revealed on Thursday and could become law before the summer, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a202&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">senior government sources have told Ben-Riley Smith</a>. Number 10 hopes to use an obscure parliamentary procedure known as standing orders to lock Scottish MPs out of shaping legislation that only affects English voters.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">ONLY THEIR-SELFIES TO BLAME</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Labour general election candidate has sparked outrage by posing for a selfie at the spot where the Tunisian beach massacre happened. Amran Hussain, 29, who was on a week-long holiday with four friends, was pictured holding his selfie stick aloft just 48 hours after dozens of tourists were slaughtered. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a203&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Leon Watson has more</a>. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile "selfie queen" Karen Danczuk has revealed that her obsession with photos led to her split from her MP husband Simon. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a204" target="_blank">She told the Sun newsp</a>aper: "He was overwhelmed that suddenly it was all about me!" Olivia Goldhill has been looking at previous political couples who split up. "Politicians aren't immune to fights and heartbreak," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a205&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">she wrote</a>. "But when power couples break up, it can be embarrassing for their high-profile careers."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">GIVE LONDON A BLASTO OF GLASTO</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Forget the ley lines and the mysticism of the Tor: one Labour candidate in the London Mayoral election says that Glastonbury Festival should be moved to the capital for one year, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a206&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">reports Kat Brown</a>. Gareth Thomas, the MP for Harrow West, says that if London wins a bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2023, moving Glastonbury 140 miles east would be the perfect way to mark it, suggesting Hackney Marshes or Epping Forest as potential venues for the festival.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WHO'LL GOVERN THE GOVERNORS?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">School governors will have to be publicly named and be registered on a national database for the first time in the wake of the 'Trojan Horse' scandal, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a207&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Steven Swinford reports</a>. There is presently no central register of who serves as a school governor, raising concerns that schools could be taken over by groups with radical agendas.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">OPPOSITES A-FRACK</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lancashire county council has rejected a planning application by shale gas explorer Cuadrilla to frack in the county, in a major blow to what would have been the UK's biggest round of fracking so far, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a208" target="_blank">the Guardian's Adam Vaughan reports</a>. Hundreds of anti-fracking campaigners outside the council's town hall in Preston, where the verdict was announced, reacted with delight and cheers, and people in the council chamber applauded.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">JANNUS-FACED PROSECUTION?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Greville Janner will be prosecuted for child sexual offences, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced after public pressure, with the u-turn taking place after a review carried out by an independent legal expert. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a209&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Martin Evans has more</a>. The CPS is now being urged to publish the independent review which led to its humiliating climbdown, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a20a&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">David Barrett reports</a>. "Such a prosecution will serve no reasonable purpose," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a20b&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">writes Matthew Scott</a>. "Who can trust that anything approaching the true facts will safely emerge from it?"<br>Dan Hodges writes that Lord <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a20c&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Janner's trial has "nothing to do with justice</a>" as "the man cannot even defend himself", adding: "It's about vengeance. Vengeance for those victims of abuse – real and imagined – who have had it denied. It's about politics."</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, lawyers across England and Wales have backed an unprecedented protest over legal aid cuts which is expected to see courts begin to grind to a halt from Wednesday. Solicitors in London are expected to back a poll asking them to stop taking on criminal legal aid work in protest over Government reforms which will reduce their payments from <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9">July 1.</a> <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a20d&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Here are more detials</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">BENEFITS BRITAIN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than half of households in Britain receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes, official figures have revealed as George Osborne prepares to make £12billion worth of welfare cuts, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a20e&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Steve Swinford reports</a>. The Office for National Statistics disclosed that 13.7million households in Britain receive more in benefits, while the richest fifth of Britons pay 43.7 per cent of the nations tax.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03358/300615-MATT-web_3358496a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a20f" target="_blank">@ChakraBortty</a> If this is how weepy Juncker gets over fiscal consolidation, I'd hate to see him in love.</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Allister Heath - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a210&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Leftist politics have doomed Greece to collapse</a><span lang=""><p>Philip Johnston - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a211&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Our tolerance for other cultures is at once our strength and weakness</a></p><p>Judith Potts - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a212&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Should not the NHS stop 'thinking' and start 'doing'?</a></p><p><em><strong>From the Politics blog</strong></em></p><p>James Kirkup - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a213&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">Grexit: can David Cameron surf the European shockwave?</a></p><p>Norman Tebbit - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a214&WT.mc_id=e_DM27930&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_30&utm_campaign=DM27930" target="_blank">The result of David Cameron's EU referendum is far from decided</a></p></span></span></font><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Ed Conway - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a215" target="_blank">The dream of closer union is melting away</a><br></span><span lang=""></span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Gideon Rachman - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a216" target="_blank">Europe's dream is dying in Greece</a><br><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a217" target="_blank"></a></font></span></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a217" target="_blank"><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p></a><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a217" target="_blank"><span lang=""><strong></strong></span></a><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""></span>MPs continue to debate Scotland Bill amid SNP calls for full fiscal autonomy<br>Lord Heseltine speech at LGA Annual Conference<br>Lords debate govt's 'legal highs' bill</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Education Secretary Nicky Morgan speaks in London on adoption<br>Trade Minister Lord Maude meets with European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom<br>Treasury Committee chair Andrew Tyrie publishes an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne on the Office of Tax Simplification</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Greece's access to bailout funds due to expire as a €1.5bn payment to the IMF falls due<br>Economic Secretary to the Treasury Harriet Baldwin speaks at the TheCityUK annual conference in London<br>Deadline, extended from 24 November 2014, for Iran to reach a deal with the P5+1 countries over its nuclear programme<br>The Independent Living Fund, which helps disabled people so they can continue to live in their communities rather than in specialist care, is to close and its functions to be taken over by local councils.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">09.30 UK final GDP growth figure for Q1 2015 to be published by ONS<br>14.30 Alistair Carmichael leads Westminster debate on future of the Human Rights Act<br>16.00 Douglas Carswell MP and Caroline Lucas MP speak at an IPPR event on the electoral system <br>19.00 Baroness Young attends an Industry and Parliament Trust event in the House of Commons on heritage </span></font></p><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">11.30: </span><span lang="">Oral questions - Business, Innovation and Skills, including Topical Questions</span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Legislation: Scotland Bill - Committee stage (day 3) - Committee of the whole House - David Mundell<br>Adjournment debate on City Deal funding for Aberdeen, led by Kirsty Blackman</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><strong>HOUSE OF LORDS</strong><br><br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://17" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="17">14:30</a>: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br>- Lord Touhig (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the Access to Work fund and what plans they have to help people with disabilities into work.<br>- Lord Brabazon of Tara (Con) to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to change the basis on which Vehicle Excise Duty rates for new cars are calculated by carbon dioxide emissions alone.<br>- Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench) to ask Her Majesty's Government what was the increase in the number of households in England and Wales between 2010 and 2014; and, over that period, what were the number and proportion of households where the head of the household was not born in the United Kingdom.<br>- Baroness Deech (Crossbench) to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the performance of the Advertising Standards Authority.</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><em>Main business</em><br>Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]: Committee<br>Question for short debate on the current situation in Sierra Leone and plans to assist in its recovery from the effects of the ebola outbreak (Baroness Hayman, Crossbench) </font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WESTMINSTER HALL</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://18" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="18">9.30 - 11</a> Shale gas - Kevin Hollinrake<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://20" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="20">11 - 11.30</a> Ampthill primary care and parking - Nadine Dorries<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://22" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="22">14.30 - 16.00</a> Future of the Human Rights Act 1998 - Mr Alistair Carmichael<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://24" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="24">16.00 - 16.30</a> Detention of MV Seaman Guard Ohio crew in India - Ian Lavery<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://26" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="26">16.30 - 17.30</a> Welfare reform and people with disabilities - Debbie Abrahams</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Thanks very much for reading. If you want to get in touch, I can be reached via email at <a href="mailto:asa.bennett@telegraph.co.uk">asa.bennett@telegraph.co.uk</a>, or on Twitter <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hba754cd,176a0c2,176a218" target="_blank">@AsaBenn</a></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-25860427699844549182015-06-29T08:28:00.001+01:002015-06-29T08:28:56.684+01:00Existential crisis.. <br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fbd&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Greece hurtling towards the financial brink</a>, Westminster politics seems to have been put on hold. Alexis Tsipras' government has announced that Greek banks would be closed for more than a week, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fbe&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">we report</a>, as the country faces bankruptcy tomorrow. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as Greece faces a debt default within 48 hours after the government made clear it will not repay a €1.5bn loan to the IMF that expires tomorow. After talks on a €12bn bail-out deal collapsed, Greece is holding a national referendum on Sunday on whether to accept the conditions for further bail-outs. However, the country is so cash-strapped that it doesn't have enough money to organise the vote, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fbf" target="_blank">according to German newspaper FAZ</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This may all seem to be of peripheral interest to the UK since we are not members of the euro," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc0&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">we say</a>. "But the economic impact of a Greek default, were it to happen, will adversely affect this country." Things are scarcely more encouraging outside of Greece, with the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc1&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Bank of International Settelements warning that the world </a>will be unable to fight the next global financial crash as central banks have used up their ammunition trying to tackle the last crises. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Panicking Greeks have already <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc2&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">emptied many of the country's ATMs</a>, placing greater faith in the Bank Under The Bed. Trading on Greece's stock market has been suspended, while cash machine withdrawals across Greece have been capped at €60 as <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc3&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">banks began to run out of money,</a> with capital controls now in place to keep money in the country's financial system. Markets are now braced for the worst period of turmoil since the height of the eurozone crisis four years ago. Sinking Asian stock markets, with more than $35bn wiped off the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc4&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Australian stock market in the first hour of trading to</a>day, have given us a sense of the full mayhem to come.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Could Greece crash out of the euro? "If Greeks think the Europeans are cutting them off, that could push them to vote 'No' and reject the bail-out deal," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc5&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">writes Mehreen Khan</a>. "On the other hand, the prospect of life under capital controls could scare many into voting Yes, for fear of things to come should they leave the euro." </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With Greece nearing the edge, the rest of Europe will be looking on. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc6&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">As Charles Moore writes</a>: "This may not be a win-win situation for Mr Tsipras, but it is a lose-lose one for the EU – the worst it has yet experienced."</span></font></p><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"> </font></p></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03357/ADAMS20150629_3357181k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DON'T TOLERATE INTOLERANCE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Britain must become "intolerant" of extremist Islam and "be stronger at standing up for our values", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc7&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">David Cameron has said</a>, as it emerged that more than 30 Britons were killed in the Tunisian beach massacre. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc8&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Writing exclusively for The Telegraph</a>, the Prime Minister said Britain is "united in shock and in grief" following the deaths of at least 38 tourists after a gun and grenade rampage by Isil militant Seifeddine Rezgui. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fc9&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Camilla Turner has rounded up </a>what we know so far about the victims.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TORIES TARGET TOP TAX </font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Up to 160 Conservative MPs want the top rate of income tax cut to 40p in the next Budget, senior Tory MPs have said as George Osborne faces mounting pressure to make the move. Liam Fox, the former cabinet minister, and Steve Baker, the influential backbencher, became the latest voices to publicly call for the cut. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fca&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith has the story</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">LET'S GET FISCAL, FISCAL</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Mundell has delivered an ultimatum to the SNP to make clear whether they support the UK Government's plans to transfer a swathe of new powers to Holyrood by warning they are facing a "deal or no deal moment", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fcb&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Simon Johnson reports</a>. The Scottish Secretary said MPs will be faced with a "no-brainer" decision in the Commons today when they choose between the Scotland Bill devolving £15 billion of tax powers or Nationalist plans for full fiscal autonomy (FFA) that would cost Scotland £10 billion a year.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Angus Robertson, has suggested that Scotland could vote to become independent before the next election. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fcc&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Speaking to the Observer</a>, he said there would be a referendum "when the public wants it on independence and that there will be a Yes result".</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WILL HILLIER PAC A PUNCH?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meg Hillier, the new chair of Parliament's public accounts committee, has admitted that it may be lower-profile than in recent years, in a change from its reputation as the scourge of big business under chairwoman Margaret Hodge. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fcd" target="_blank">Speaking to the FT's Jim Pickard</a>, she said people were "entitled" to think it would be lower-profile, adding: "Things do move on."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">CROWN PERSECUTED SERVICE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is under mounting pressure to resign after it emerged her decision to drop legal action against Lord Janner of Braunstone for child sex abuse is to be dramatically reversed, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fce&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">David Barrett reports</a>. Alleged victims of the Labour peer have been notified by specialist police officers over the weekend that a case will finally be brought against the 86-year-old Labour grandee.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOWARDS' WAY...ISN'T CLEAR</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Airports Commission will "fudge" the decision on where to locate Britain's new runway by leaving all options on the table – paving the way for ministers to oppose expansion at Heathrow. While the independent body is likely to recommend Heathrow as the site for expansion it is understood the group will not rule out building at Gatwick. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fcf&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">IS SORRY THE BEST MEDICINE?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">New guidelines are being unveiled for doctors, nurses and midwives across the UK on being honest and open with patients when things go wrong, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd0" target="_blank">the BBC's Dominic Hughes reports</a>. The guidelines, known as a "duty of candour", make clear that patients should expect a face-to-face apology.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">CAM ON, STAY ON MESSAGE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron's aides have put ministers and officials on a tight rein since the general election as the Prime Minister aims to capitalise on his election victory. "We have a real opportunity to set the narrative and get on the front foot. We are trying to keep everyone very 'on message'," an aide told the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd1" target="_blank">FT's Elizabeth Rigby</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DANCZUK IT IN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Labour MP Simon Danczuk and his Councillor wife Karen have separated, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd2&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">the Sun newspaper has reported</a>. The Rochdale MP said: "I am very sad to say my wife and I are separating. Our main concern is for the wellbeing of our two children. I am absolutely devastated, but that's life."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DEFRA BARES ITS TEETH</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The RSPCA must purge radical animal rights activists from its board or face "disaster", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd3&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">a government source has told Ben Riley-Smith</a> amid fears the charity could be taken over by hardliners. In a clear warning shot, the Environment Department source told this newspaper the charity risks "eroding its credibility" by prioritising contentious political campaigns over animal welfare.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03357/290615-MATT-web_3357567a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(To mark our redesign for our 160th birthday, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd4&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">here's a note from our editor</a>, Chris Evans.)</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd5" target="_blank">@sundersays</a>: It was good that @ukiplgbt took part in Pride anyway, imho. But I can't believe they missed open goal of taking a "Better Off Out" banner!</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><p>David Cameron: <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd6&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">We must be intolerant of Isil intolerance</a></p><p>Boris Johnson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd7&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Islamic State? This death cult is not a state and it's certainly not Islamic</a></p><p>Charles Moore - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd8&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">It's lose-lose for the EU whichever way the eurozone jumps</a></p><p><em><strong>From the Politics blog</strong></em></p><p>Dan Hodges - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fd9&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Yes, the pollsters lied - and here's the proof</a></p><p>Michael Fabricant - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fda&WT.mc_id=e_DM27611&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_29&utm_campaign=DM27611" target="_blank">Bring back Britain's swank, let the Queen and ministers travel in style</a></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p><span lang=""><strong><em>From elsewhere</em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="">Matthew D'Ancona - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fdb" target="_blank">With Tunisia, David Cameron faces his first real test on terror</a></span><span lang=""></span></p><p><span lang="">Dominic Lawson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fdc" target="_blank">Why Branson and Co are the LAST people we should trust on Europe</a><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fdd" target="_blank"></a></span></p></span><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fdd" target="_blank"><p><span lang=""></span></p></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb9ad1b6,1745ec8,1745fdd" target="_blank"><span lang=""><strong></strong></span></a><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">09.30 Statistics on the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes to be released by ONS<br>12.45 Mayor of London Boris Johnson MP makes an announcement on buses<br>15.30 Policy Exchange hosts 'The Future of Digital Government' discussion with Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Chi Onwurah and Conservative MP Matt Warman<br>18.30 Jon Cruddas MP speaks about the Labour Party at a Compass event in London</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MPs debate Scotland Bill amid SNP calls for full fiscal autonomy<br>MEPs decide fate of 116 amendments to EU/U.S. trade deal<br>MigrationWatch founder Lord Green leads debate on non-UK households after population leap<br>PM to give statement on EU summit in House of Commons</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Cost of Government Day' in the UK – the Adam Smith Institute calculate that this is the day when average taxpayers stop working for the government and starts earning for themselves<br>Lancashire Council votes on landmark fracking bid<br>Scottish Labour Party leadership candidates hustings in Dundee<br>Transport Minister Andrew Jones launches Greener Journeys' Catch the Bus week</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships begin</span></font></p><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12">14:30</a>: Communities and Local Government questions (topicals <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13">at 15:15</a>)</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Main business</font></em></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Ministerial statement - European Council<br></span><span lang="">Scotland Bill: Committee (Day 2)<br>Adjournment debate: Postmasters and postmistresses and the Horizon system (Andrew Bridgen, Con, North West Leicestershire)</span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><strong>HOUSE OF LORDS</strong><br><br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15">14:30</a>: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br>- Lord Touhig (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the Access to Work fund and what plans they have to help people with disabilities into work.<br>- Lord Brabazon of Tara (Con) to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to change the basis on which Vehicle Excise Duty rates for new cars are calculated by carbon dioxide emissions alone.<br>- Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench) to ask Her Majesty's Government what was the increase in the number of households in England and Wales between 2010 and 2014; and, over that period, what were the number and proportion of households where the head of the household was not born in the United Kingdom.<br>- Baroness Deech (Crossbench) to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the performance of the Advertising Standards Authority.</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><em>Main business</em><br>Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]: Committee<br>Question for short debate on the current situation in Sierra Leone and plans to assist in its recovery from the effects of the ebola outbreak (Baroness Hayman, Crossbench)</font></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-12364618592867599702015-06-26T09:40:00.001+01:002015-06-26T09:40:23.965+01:00<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4VCu6SZzjb8/VY0P-DiojII/AAAAAAAAGVA/7bsQQRULhuc/s1600/IMG_3666-723966.JPG"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4VCu6SZzjb8/VY0P-DiojII/AAAAAAAAGVA/7bsQQRULhuc/s320/IMG_3666-723966.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6164601023716953218" /></a></p>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-18558810638557375682015-06-26T08:22:00.001+01:002015-06-26T08:22:09.192+01:00EU summit.. <br><br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>David Cameron has met with fellow EU leaders for dinner in Brussels to kick off the next phase of his renegotiation plans, reassuring them that he would end "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a5d&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">the widespread unease of the British people</a>" by reshaping Britian's relationship with the European Union. </p><p>The Prime Minister secured agreement for "technical" talks between British and European officials over the next six months on the UK's concerns about its membership, with topics like welfare, an opt-out from the goal of "ever-closer union" and greater powers for national parliaments likely to arise. What does each EU leader think about Britain's demands? Matthew Holehouse has <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a5e&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">summarised their positions here</a>.</p><p>However, he didn't get this far without compromise. The Prime Minister was forced to admit that he will be unable to secure the treaty before the referendum, scheduled before the end of 2017, despite previously saying that "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a5f" target="_blank">proper full-on treaty change</a>" was necessary. European Council president Donald Tusk stressed that the "fundamental values of the European Union are not for sale and so are non-negotiable". In response, Ukip MP Douglas Carswell went through Cameron's <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a60" target="_blank">2013 Bloomberg speech</a>, mercilessly pointing out his past promises of "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a61" target="_blank">big institutional change</a>" that require a "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a62" target="_blank">new Treaty</a>". </p><p>Instead of treaty change, Cameron will ask voters to decide based on a "legally binding" promise from Brussels for treaty changes at a later date after the referendum. Cameron was pressed for time when he set out Britain's referendum plans, with Greece's debt crisis leaving him just a brief window to address his counterparts before dinner."The great British referendum, hard fought for over so many years, is just an insignificant amuse bouche for the rest of Europe," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a63&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">wrote Julia Hartley-Brewer</a>.</p><p>European Parliament president Martin Schulz was of little help to Cameron, warning that he will "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a64&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">face a lot of problems</a>" if he tries to placate his Tory backbenchers. Given that the Parliament can derail Cameron's reform by killing off any secondary legislation he wants, Schulz's remarks have added menace. Cameron also rebuffed attempts by European leaders to force <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a65&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Britain to take quotas of refugees from the Mediterranean</a>, a topic of furious debate.</p><p>Despite the heated disputes, Cameron later said he was "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a66" target="_blank">delighted</a>" that renegotiation is "properly under way". EU leaders will get to discuss his reforms more today for day two of the summit. Cameron now has months to thrash out the new vision for Britain's membership he has promised.</p></font></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03354/ADAMS20150626end_3354481k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">GREECE IS (STILL) THE WORD</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last-ditch debt talks between Greece and its international creditors collapsed for the second time in less than 24 hours raising the prospect of imminent bank closures as the country spirals towards default in five days, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a67&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Mehreen Khan reports</a>. Greece's creaking banking system is now facing the prospect of a devastating run on its assets after Athens failed to give ground on an ultimatum presented by its paymasters.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">NOT MCLAUGHLIN NOW</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Network Rail bosses have been stripped of their bonuses as Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced a major shake-up over "absolutely unacceptable" problems in train services over the last year. No executive director is to be given a bonus after thousands of passengers were left stranded at King's Cross and London Bridge stations in Boxing Day travel chaos, he announced. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a68&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Read more here</a>. "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a69&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Network Rail needs market forces applied</a>," we say.<br></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, McLoughlin revealed that the government would shelve vital upgrades to major railway lines between the North and the South. The announcement was embarrassing for the government, which had described the programme as the largest "since Victorian times" and a key part of its plans to build a "Northern powerhouse", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a6a&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Steven Swinford reports</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">BBC DISTRUST</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The BBC Trust will be axed and its powers handed to the communications regulator Ofcom, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a6b&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Christopher Williams reports</a>. For the first time in the broadcaster's nearly century-long history, it will be governed by an external body, as part of the renegotiation of the BBC Charter. The move is expected to be signalled in a Green Paper that will formally trigger Charter renewal negotiations within weeks.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">RISE OF MIDDLE BRITAIN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Britain has reached middle age with the average age of people living in the UK hitting 40 for the first time, according to official figures which also show the population surging to a new record fuelled mainly by immigration, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a6c&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">John Bingham reports</a>. Wondering <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a6d&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">how high is immigration is in your area</a>? Laurence Dodds and I have mapped it all out.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">SNP'S CRUDE OIL NUMBERS SPILL </font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SNP ministers have dramatically downgraded by tens of billions of pounds their predictions for the tax revenue generated by North Sea oil compared to their claims before the independence referendum, slipping out updated figurs on the day MSPs left Holyrood for their two-month summer break, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a6e&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Simon Johnson reports</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a6f&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank"> Scottish Secretary David Mundell said </a>the Scottish Parliament is on course to get control over income tax within three years, as he suggested the SNP is deliberately exaggerating potential glitches in legislation transferring a huge swathe of powers to Holyrood.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">FALKLAND FAKERS GONNA FAKE, FAKE, FAKE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Argentine foreign minister has accused David Cameron of living in a "fake reality" and knowing so little about the Falkland Islands that he "yelled at an assistant to write something" as he renewed verbal hostilities that broke out at a meeting in Brussels this month. Hector Timerman made his derisive comments <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a70&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">in an interview with Philip Sherwell</a>, before addressing a United Nations meeting on the islands - where he repeated his attack on the Prime Minister. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a71&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">ELECTION? TIS BUT A SCRATCH</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I haven't destroyed my party," Nick Clegg has insisted as he said there were no "regrets" about entering coalition in his first interview since the Liberal Democrats' disastrous election night. Speaking on LBC radio, the former Deputy Prime Minister claimed voters did not mean to punish the party so harshly for joining the Tories in government and now regretted throwing the Lib Dems to the "bottom of the stairs". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a72&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith has more</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">LAST MILIFAN STANDING</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ed Miliband met his biggest fan on Thursday when he took Abby Tomlinson, the 17-year-old who started the 'Milifandom' movement, to lunch in the Houses of Parliament, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a73&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Emily Gosden reports</a>. Tomlinson, a student from St Helens in Merseyside, shot to prominence during the general election campaign when she started a Twitter campaign to back the then-leader of the Labour party.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as Miliband's former policy chief Jon Cruddas appeared at a Westminster seminar to warn that Labour will be "in the dead zone" if it continues to treat Tony Blair as a pariah to be booed at Labour party conferences. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a74" target="_blank">The Guardian has more</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">EAT RIGHT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">New research suggests that the more conservative you are, the easier you'll find it to lose weight, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a75&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Saffron Alexander reports</a>. Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that there appears to be a link between political ideology and how much self control we have.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">GLOOMY PROJECTIONS...</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One in four of the government's major projects is in danger of failing, including an army recruitment scheme and a scheme to bring back and rehouse troops from Germany, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a76" target="_blank">according to the Times</a>. A report from the government's Major Projects Authority said that of 188 large projects worth £498 billion, 49 were either unachievable or needed urgent changes.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">EVERY CLOUD, A SILVA LINING...</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron's former tech guru Rohan Silva is paying a "big six figures" sum to buy the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion, and he plans to take it to Los Angeles to turn it into an arts venue.He told <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a77" target="_blank">Business Insider's Oscar Williams-Grut</a>: "We want to show that small companies can support the arts. It shouldn't just be the BPs or the Goldmans."</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03354/260615-MATT-web_3354494a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a78" target="_blank">@JWoodcockMP</a>: The Rampant Blarite sounds like a particuarly niche sex toy. A wipe-clean Alan Milburn or something - OK I'VE STOPPED</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(In response, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a79" target="_blank">Ann Summers tweeted</a>: "Thanks Woodcock! Our buyers are working on it as we speak... #ItsComing")</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>Mark Malloch-Brown - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a7a&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">The UN is an under-funded, bureaucratic labyrinth - and a force for good in the world</a></p><p>Fraser Nelson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a7b&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">The SNP won't admit the truth – on most things, Scots and English see eye to eye</a></p><p>Jon Moynihan, Andrew Allum, Matthew Elliott, Luke Johnson, Mark Littlewood, John Mills, Helena Morrissey and Viscount Ridley - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a7c&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Britain can only control who comes in if we leave the EU</a></p><p>Lord Sterling - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a7d&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Britain's Jews stand proud, ready to serve Queen and Country</a></p><p><em><strong>From the Politics blog</strong></em></p><p>Asa Bennett - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a7e&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Labour's leadership race is boring the public stiff</a></p><p>Julia Hartley-Brewer - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a7f&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Europe's solution to any crisis will always be the same: ever-closer union</a></p><p>Rupert Myers - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a80&WT.mc_id=e_DM27110&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_26&utm_campaign=DM27110" target="_blank">Scrap magistrates, cut juries and let professional judges decide</a></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p><span lang=""><strong><em>From elsewhere</em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="">Franziska Augstein - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a81" target="_blank">Angela Merkel – is the Greek crisis too big for Europe's most powerful woman?</a><br></span></p><p><span lang="">Owen Bennett (no relation) - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a82" target="_blank">How I learnt to stop worrying and enjoy reporting on Ukip</a><br><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a83" target="_blank"><br></a></span></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a83" target="_blank"><p><span lang=""></span></p></a><p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb701077,16e79a4,16e7a83" target="_blank"><span lang=""><strong></strong></span></a><strong>AGENDA</strong></p><p>EU Summit continues as Greek debt crisis and Cameron's reforms discussed</p><p>Lancashire Council could give landmark ruling on fracking application</p><p>18.30 Sandi Toksvig hosts her final edition of BBC Radio 4's 'The News Quiz'</p><p>20.00 'Any Questions?' on Radio 4 with guests set to incl Nigel Farage, Norman Lamb and Anna Soubry</p><p>Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby are to address a conference on inclusive capitalism at the Guildhall in London</p><p>Scottish Labour leader candidates hustings in Aberdeen</p><p>Scottish Parliament rises for summer recess</p><p><em>On this day</em></p><p>1945: The first 50 countries signed the Charter of the United Nations</p><p>1963: President Kennedy delivered his "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" speech to the citizens of West Germany in defiance of the Soviet Union</p><p><em>Birthdays</em></p><p>Tory MP Caroline Nokes turns 43, while Labour MP David Winnick turns 82.</p><p></p><p><span lang=""><strong>TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</strong></span></p><p><span lang="">No business today</span></p></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-78660725478047408542015-06-25T15:04:00.001+01:002015-06-25T15:04:22.565+01:00As EU like it..<table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span lang="" class=""><span lang="" class=""><span lang="" class=""><p class="">David Cameron will <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b15&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">set out in detail what he wants </a>from the European Union when he meets fellow EU leaders today in Brussels, in a step that marks "phase two" (as No 10 call it) of his renegotiation plans. However, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b16&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">France is already kicking up a fuss</a>.</p><p class="">Ahead of the summit, French economy minister Emmanuel Macron warned that the Prime Minister will not be able to get the treaty change he seeks, and should not be allowed to follow EU rules "à la carte", instead settling for Brussels set menu. Cameron, fresh from meeting Angela Merkel in Germany, will be hoping his pre-meeting pow-wow will give him the powerful ally he needs in his fight to get meaningful concessions. If he fails, Britain would find itself drifting towards the EU exit door. Some are blunt about this, with Business for Britain declaring "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b17&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">the EU is stealing Britain's diplomatic influence - and so we must leave</a>".</p><p class="">Macron's warning is hardly the first sign of French belligerence, with foreign minister Laurent Fabius comparing Cameron's renegotiation bid last month to joining a football club but then deciding "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b18&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">in the middle of the match we are now going to play rugby</a>". Faced with such opposition, Conservative MPs aren't worried about how their party leader will fare. One ardent Eurosceptic told me that the Germans will be the key ally as "they know without us in the EU, France would have too much sway".</p><p class="">This comes as the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b19&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Queen used her speech at a state banquet</a> yesterday in Berlin, attended by Cameron and Merkel, to issue a timely message, declaring that "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b1a&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">division in Europe is dangerous</a>". She also stressed Britain's "key part" in shaping Europe. Has she effectively given her royal assent to the Yes campaign? Some will see it that way, though the Palace of course insists that she stays out of politics. And Eurosceptics would say that Britain leaving the European Union - far from being a declaration of war - would still mean European nations would get along nicely.</p><p class="">With <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b1b&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Greece's debt crisis far from over</a>, the Prime Minister will be pressed for time as he tries to lay out what he wants back from Brussels. "No one involved in the Greek shambles - the Greek government, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank or the eurozone politicians – wants to be responsible for the country leaving the euro," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b1c&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">laments Ben Wright</a>. With immediate issues like this in EU leaders' in-trays, it looks like Cameron's renegotiation will take a while. </p></span></span></span></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03352/ADAMS20150625_3352624k.jpg" style="outline: none;" class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""><p class=""><strong class="">ACROPOLIS NOW</strong></p><p class="">Greece's eurozone future was thrown into fresh turmoil on Wednesday night as talks broke down after creditor powers demanded further austerity measures to release the funds the country needs to avoid a debt default, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b1d&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Mehreen Khan reports</a>. Dashing tentative hopes that an agreement could be struck at European Union leaders summit on Thursday, a meeting of finance ministers was suspended after only an hour as Prime Minister Tsipras was summoned for further late night talks with his bail-out chiefs.</p><p class=""><strong class="">PRIME MINISTER'S PROTEST TIME</strong></p><p class="">A group of disability protesters has attempted to storm the House of Commons chamber during Prime Minister's Questions. Around a dozen chanting activists were stopped by police and officials as David Cameron addressed MPs just feet away in the Commons, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b1e&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Peter Dominiczak reports</a>. However, the activists,failed to disrupt Cameron's flow at PMQs, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b1f&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">as Tom Rowley noted</a>. "There was no mention of the commotion outside and not a single cry of protest was heard above the MPs' usual brouhaha," he wrote.</p><p class=""><strong class="">CALLOOH CALAIS</strong></p><p class="">Migrants have been managing to confound the government's "100 per cent" security checks at the UK border, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b20&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">David Barrett reports</a>. Abdul Aziz, dazed but defiant after a 106-mile journey underneath a lorry, slipped out from underneath a truck at Toddington services on the M1 in Bedfordshire, and said: ""England is good." This comes as David Cameron condemned the "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b21&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">totally unacceptable</a>" scenes at Calais that led to the Channel Tunnel being shut after migrants attempted to climb aboard UK-bound lorries. </p><p class=""><strong class="">MAIDAY, MAIDAY...</strong></p><p class="">Taxpayers' money has been spent on a variety of odd projects, like finding mates for tropical fish off Africa, teaching Hamlet to Ecuadorians, producing a game show for Ethiopian TV, and an anti-littering campaign in Jordan, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b22" target="_blank" class="">the Sun's Oliver Harvey has found</a>. Tory MP David Nuttall told the newspaper: "You couldn't make some of these projects up."</p><p class="">In response, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has launched a review into how oversees aid money is spent to ensure the taxpayer was getting "value for money" from the projects. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b23&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Ben Riley-Smith has more</a>.</p><p class=""><strong class="">HACK AT TAX, NOT CREDITS</strong></p><p class="">The former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson has urged George Osborne to cut the top income tax rate to 40p in next month's Budget. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b24&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Lord Lawson told the Financial Times </a>that he would "strongly support" the move, adding that it would "significantly enhance the attractiveness of the UK as a place to do business, at no cost in terms of lost revenue".</p><p class="">Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has warned David Cameron against "hacking back" on benefits for low-paid workers until companies "cough up" more money and increase their pay. The Mayor of London said that private firms that fail to pay the living wage and force their staff to rely on tax credits to top up their pay were "scandalous". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b25&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Steven Swinford has the story</a>.</p><p class=""><strong class="">A TREE-MENDOUS METAPHOR?</strong></p><p class="">As David Cameron prepares to decide whether to allow London's Heathrow Airport to expand, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b26" target="_blank" class="">Bloomberg's Thomas Penny </a>has found that a tree he once sponsored to signal his opposition to a third runway has died. "The trees all died; they didn't look after them, they weren't watered or anything so they all just expired," Michael Aslam, who owns the land the orchard was planted on, told him. Some may wonder, has his opposition died with it? </p><p class=""><strong class="">CLEGG NEARLY PEGGED IT</strong></p><p class="">Nick Clegg offered to resign as Liberal Democrat leader a year before the 2015 election, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b27&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">it has emerged</a>. The former Deputy Prime Minister considered his position in the wake of the party's humiliating reverses in the European and local elections in May 2014, the Guardian reported.</p><p class=""><strong class="">THE LADY IN THE VAN</strong></p><p class="">Newly-elected Labour MP Jess Phillips planned to bed down in her camper van with her husband and kids because London hotels were so expensive, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b28" target="_blank" class="">she told the Mirror's Ben Glaze</a>. Phillips, who was quoted £1,450 for three night stay, said: "It made me think even more that this isn't a normal place for normal people with normal families."</p><p class=""><strong class="">CRASH N' MILBURN</strong></p><p class="">Labour must accept that Tony Blair was "great" like Margaret Thatcher and learn lessons from his success or it will never be in power again, Alan Milburn has said as he endorsed Liz Kendall for the leadership. The former health secretary said the party "could not have got it more wrong" at the last election as Ed Miliband "unilaterally sought to bring the shutters down on New Labour". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b29&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Ben Riley-Smith has more</a>.</p><p class="">Meanwhile, Ed Miliband's policy chief has said it was "vital" that leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn be included in the Labour leadership contest. Speaking at the IPPR think-tank, Jon Cruddas also revealed that he was involved in setting up an English Labour Party, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b2a" target="_blank" class="">HuffPostUK reports</a>.</p><p class=""><strong class="">COLD WAR GAMES</strong></p><p class="">Britain and its Nato allies are to review their preparedness for a nuclear standoff with Russia in response to President Putin's threats to upgrade his nuclear arsenal, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b2b&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Matthew Holehouse has learnt</a>. In a return of the atomic chess games of the Cold War, Western defence ministers will conduct an audit of what they know about the Kremlin's nuclear doctrine.</p><p class=""><strong class="">#ISILFIE</strong></p><p class="">"Spotty" computer geeks across the world are encouraging Islamist radicalisation by posting "selfies" supporting Isil, the United Nations expert on extremist groups has warned. Alexander Evans, who leads the UN's expert team on al Qaeda, said Europeans are being convinced to start fighting for Isil in the Middle East because it appears to be the "new brand on the block", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b2c&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">says Ben Riley-Smith</a>.</p><p class=""><strong class="">SNP WANT LAIRDS A-LEAPING</strong></p><p class="">A powerful new quango is to be set up to overhaul land ownership in Scotland, under "radical" legislation that set out four tests that must be met to forcibly strip lairds of their property, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b2d&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Simon Johnson reports</a>. The Land Reform Bill creates a Scottish Land Commission comprising six commissioners with sweeping powers, along with a controversial new power forcing landowners to sell land if they are deemed a barrier to development.</p></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""><strong class=""></strong><br class=""><br class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03352/250615-MATT-web_3352919a.jpg" style="outline: none;" class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><p class=""><strong class="">TOO MANY TWEETS </strong></p><p class=""><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b2e" target="_blank" class="">@GawainTowler</a>: A hack (nameless) has just told me a place is "off the Surrey coast". Kids, don't ask directions from journalists, stick to policemen</p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></span></p><p class=""><strong class="">COMMENT</strong></p><p class=""><em class=""><strong class="">From The Telegraph</strong></em></p><span lang="" class=""><p class="">Bruce Anderson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b2f&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Nicola Sturgeon would be a fool to break up the royal love affair with Scotland</a></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b2f&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class=""></a><p class=""><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b2f&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class=""></a>Allister Heath - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b30&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Our poverty rules are an insult to everyone – it's time to rip them up</a></p><p class="">Business for Britain - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b31&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">The EU is stealing Britain's diplomatic influence - and so we must leave</a></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b31&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class=""></a><p class=""><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b31&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class=""><em class=""><strong class=""></strong></em></a><em class=""><strong class="">From the Politics blog</strong></em></p><p class="">Allan Massie - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b32&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Pensioners should get preference when it comes to welfare</a></p><p class="">Dan Hodges - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b33&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">Why did the polls get it wrong at the general election? Because they lied</a></p><p class="">Cathy Newman - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b34&WT.mc_id=e_DM26901&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_25&utm_campaign=DM26901" target="_blank" class="">The Queen vs The Queen of Scots: Is Nicola Sturgeon's crown about to slip?</a></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class=""><em class="">From elsewhere</em></strong></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Ian Birrell - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b35" target="_blank" class="">We need a strong liberal voice in UK politics. Tim Farron won't provide it</a><br class=""></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Tim Montgomerie - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b36" target="_blank" class="">There's no money left so the left is collapsing</a><br class=""><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b37" target="_blank" class=""><br class=""></a></span></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b37" target="_blank" class=""><p class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></p></a><p class=""><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb60d7a9,16c4b10,16c4b37" target="_blank" class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class=""></strong></span></a><strong class="">AGENDA</strong></p><p class="">EU Summit opens as Greek debt crisis expected to be discussed</p><p class="">09.00 Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on LBC Radio for first major broadcast interview since the election <br class="">09.30 Child poverty stats released amid govt 'plan' to scrap Labour's key benchmark<br class="">12.00 Nicola Sturgeon at FMQs and then (13.30) off to launch boardrooms 'gender balance' scheme<br class="">13.30 Tim Farron MP speaks at the Institute for Public Policy Research on the role of liberalism <br class="">22.35: 'Question Time' from Southampton. Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, Fraser Nelson, Amber Rudd, Suzanne Evans and Andy Burnham scheduled to be on the panel.</p><p class="">The European Commission is to launch a sea and air mission to tackle the migrant crisis. The plan also includes resettlement quotas for refugees for countries across the bloc and a 'blue card' scheme, similar to the US Green Card, for highly skilled migrants<br class="">Business Secretary Sajid Javid launches the Government's Enterprise Bill in Bristol<br class="">Lancashire Council is to consider an application, made by Cuadrilla Resources, to frack at Roseacre Wood between Blackpool and Preston</p><p class=""></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class="">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</strong></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class="">HOUSE OF COMMONS</strong></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></p><p class=""></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></p><p class="">Commons Chamber<br class="">9:30: Energy and Climate Change questions (topicals at 10:15)</p><p class="">10:30: Business statement</p><p class=""><em class="">Main business</em><br class="">General debate on reports into investigatory powers<br class="">Adjournment debate: National Gallery industrial dispute (John McDonnell, Lab, Hayes and Harlington)</p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class="">HOUSE OF LORDS</strong></span></p><p class=""></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">11:00: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br class="">- Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government what proposals they have for constitutional reform.<br class="">- Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will provide an annual report to Parliament regarding the operation of seven-day opening of general practitioner clinics.<br class="">- Baroness Turner of Camden (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the ability of individuals who have been dismissed to invoke their employment rights when they cannot afford tribunal costs.<br class="">- Topical question</span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Main business<br class="">Debate on the implications of the constitutional changes proposed in the Gracious Speech </span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Question for short debate on what action Her Majesty's Government plan to take in the light of the report by the Care Quality Commission Right here, right now, regarding providing young people with adequate help, care and support during a mental health crisis </span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Debate on the amount of affordable housing in all forms of tenure and the case for increasing the supply of affordable housing (Lord Whitty, Lab)</span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Question for short debate on what plans Her Majesty's Government have to reduce the requirement for all leaseholders to agree if they wish to become holders in common (Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Con) (1.5 hours)</span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class="">WESTMINSTER HALL</strong></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">13:30: Economic disparities in older industrial areas (Grahame Morris, Lab, Easington)<br class="">15:00: Cost of school transport (Nigel Evans, Con, Ribble Valley)</span></p></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-35792729763273459752015-06-23T19:33:00.001+01:002015-06-23T19:33:20.024+01:00Beware Greeks bearing bonds.. <br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Greece's debt crisis continues to grip Europe, with pressure mounting on the European Central Bank to keep the country's banking system alive for another day amid </span><span lang="">hopes it will finally be granted the bailout cash needed to avoid a default next week. </span><span lang="">Eurozone finance ministers discussed in Brussels yesterday the idea of Greece bringing in <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727a7&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">capital controls to stop money bleeding out of the financial system</a>,</span><span lang=""> but it was dismissed by Greek's finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. Finland's Alexander </span><span lang="">Stubb summed up the frustrations of many when he said: "We have wasted a lot of air miles."</span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">There may limited cause for hope, as the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727a8" target="_blank">Times reports that the Greeks</a>proposed significant concessions like VAT hikes and pension cuts. "Europe's leaders are prepared to go a very long way to stop [the euro] falling apart," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727a9&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">we note</a>. Some remain sceptical. </span><span lang="">"Europe's leaders need to accept that Greece cannot thrive unless its debts are written off, and that this wouldn't be acceptable to other countries unless it also exited the </span><span lang="">euro", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727aa&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">writes Allister Heath</a>. "For everybody's sake, it is time to set Greece free."</span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="">Meanwhile, the latest chapters of Business for Britain's heavyweight report "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727ab&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Change, or Go</a>", which we're serialising this week, suggest that the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727ac&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">typical British household </a></span></span></span><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727ac&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank"><span lang="">would be almost £1,000 </span></a>a year better off if Britain leaves the European Union. Outlining the potential benefits of "Brexit", the analysis suggests that without <span lang="">fundamental overhaul of Britain's EU membership terms, the national interest will lie outside the union. With EU officials telling Britain off for letting so many mothers stay at home</span><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="">, to the fury of Tory MPs, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727ad&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Brussels is hardly helping the case for "in". </a></span></span></span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Downing Street now suggests that that David Cameron could secure a deal to reform Britain's relationship with Europe in "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727ae&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">several months</a>", indicating that it could be by the end of the year, or even in time for the Conservative party conference in October - which would delight Tory MPs. However, with the Greek crisis raging on, the Prime Minister's renegotiation risks falling off the European agenda. </font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span><span lang="">This Thursday is meant to be the big moment Cameron sets out his demands to </span><span lang="">EU leaders when they meet in Brussels, however his team has admitted there'll be no "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727af" target="_blank">massive discussion</a>" of his plans as European Council president Donald Tusk wants to focus on Greece and the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Former minister Tim Loughton has warned Cameron in the Guardian not to let his <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b0" target="_blank">EU reform plans turn to "mush</a>". He'll need to get a move on if he wants to avoid disappointing his troops.</span><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span></span></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03349/ADAMS20150623_3349787k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">OUT FOR JUSTICE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Courts are offering a "gold standard" to the wealthy from around the world but failing vulnerable British victims of crime, Michael Gove is to warn. In his first speech since being appointed Justice Secretary last month Mr Gove will attack the "creaking" legal system which makes crime victims "suffer twice", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b1&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">David Barrett reports</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Labour MP Simon Danczuk has <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b2" target="_blank">told Channel 4 News </a>that his party's leadership "failed to act quickly and efficiently" to suspend Lord Janner, despite writing to Ed Miliband last year in private to warn him of "stomach-churning" allegations of child abuse faced by the peer.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">BURN' NOTICE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Who is the real Andy Burnham? <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b3" target="_blank">BuzzFeed's Emily Ashton has written a fun profile</a> of the Labour leadership frontrunner, revealing that he was said to be so hardline in his first government job that officials dubbed him "Burnham and Flog 'Em". She also chronicled how Burnham ended up playing on the swings with Ed Balls - in a now infamous photo op - and his awkward reaction to being spotted by a member of the public at a gig in Hyde Park. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b4&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Emily Gosden reports that a study on fracking </a>used by Burnham to justify calls for a ban was produced by a veteran green campaigner opposed to the practice. The Labour leadership contender has also insisted that he has <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b5&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">experience of living in the "real world</a>" - because his wife used to run her own business. "Wasn't it refreshing to hear a senior politician boasting about his wife's achievements rather than burying them, or worse denying their existence?" <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b6&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">says Rosa Prince</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">FRIENDS ON BENEFITS</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Labour Governments have traditionally increased spending on benefits before general elections "to buy votes", Iain Duncan Smith has said. The Work and Pensions secretary was speaking after David Cameron, the Prime Minister, signalled he was preparing make cuts to tax credits as part of the effort to balance the books, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b7&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By cutting tax credits, ministers could well make some workers worse off. But ministers hope that employees help pick up the slack and increase wages. Here are <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b8&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">five ways that might happen</a>. "Freeing Britain's workers and businesses is not only economically right but compassionate too," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727b9&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">we say</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DEPLOY THE HOW(ELL)ITZER</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">George Osborne's father-in-law has launched an extraordinary attack on "moaning American generals" who complain about Britain's defence cuts and spout "damaging nonsense", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727ba&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith reports</a>. Lord Howell of Guildford said US military figures were "quite wrong" to claim Britain is in "retreat" because of its defence budget being slashed.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">MANDY FAILS TO BE SHADOWY CHANCELLOR</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Labour grandee Peter Mandelson, nicknamed the "Prince of Darkness", has failed in his bid to become chancellor of Manchester University despite a concerted lobbying campaign, losing out to a poet from Wigan. His campaign team blamed his failure on an anti-Mandelson campaign run by "people in the shadows", according to the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727bb" target="_blank">Guardian's Helen Pidd</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">EVERYBODY NEEDS AN EDUCATION</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Coasting schools which fail to help their brightest pupils to reach their full potential face being taken over as part of a government bid to drive up standards, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727bc&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">David Cameron has announced</a>. The Prime Minister said that the culture of schools giving children "just enough" education to avoid falling below basic standards "isn't good enough for my children and it shouldn't be good enough for yours".</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Michael Gove has posted a lengthy list of grammar instructions to his civil servants at the Ministry of Justice, setting out strict writing rules to guide departmental correspondence. Could you meet his high standards? Take our <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727bd&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Gove-inspired grammar test here</a>. If you don't do well, Olivia Goldhill has also included Gove's guidance beneath the quiz.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">EXTREMIST REACTION</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Theresa May's most senior counter terrorism adviser has warned against portraying Muslim communities as "intrinsically extremist" just days after David Cameron said some were "quietly condoning" radicalisation, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727be&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith reports</a>. Charles Farr, director general of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, said there was a "risk" of oversimplification given around 2.7 million Muslims live in Britain but just a few hundred had joined Isil in the Middle East.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Every Muslim in Britain should be made to take counter-extremism lessons at school to prevent radicalisation, a Pakistani politician and senior Islamic scholar has said. Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said that lessons on "peace", "counter-terrorism" and "deradicalisation" should be made part of the national curriculum in state schools. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727bf&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03350/230615-MATT-web_3350044a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c0" target="_blank">@AFNeil</a>: Greece's Fin Min Varoufakis on @bbcquestiontime this Thursday, same day Eurogroup of fin mins now reconvenes. Wonder which he'll got to?</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>Allister Heath - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c1&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">For everybody's sake, it is time for the EU to set Greece's economy free</a></p><p>Philip Johnston - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c2&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">The moment of truth is dawning for Cameron on Heathrow</a></p><p>Dan Hodges - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c3&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Charleston Massacre: Why the South needs to be taught a history lesson</a></p><p><em><strong>From the Politics blog</strong></em></p><p>Asa Bennett - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c4&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">Five ways David Cameron can cut tax credits without making workers worse off</a></p><p>Toby Young - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c5&WT.mc_id=e_DM26392&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_23&utm_campaign=DM26392" target="_blank">At last, some good news for eurosceptics</a></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p><span lang=""><strong><em>From elsewhere</em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="">Ed Conway - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c6" target="_blank">The IMF gambled on Greece and has lost<br></a></span></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c6" target="_blank"></a><p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c6" target="_blank"><span lang=""></span></a>Conor Pope - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c7" target="_blank">We decided a week ago to broaden the debate about Labour's future – let's not try and close it down now<br></a></p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c7" target="_blank"><p><span lang=""></span></p></a><p><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb3975ae,16727a2,16727c7" target="_blank"><span lang=""><strong></strong></span></a><strong>AGENDA</strong></p><p>George Osborne leads Commons debate on EU budget cut<br>Peers debate 'legal highs' bill as Lib Dems table series of amendments</p><p>Justice Secretary Michael Gove to speak at Legatum Institute on "What does a One Nation justice policy look like?"<br>The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh begin Germany State visit<br>Lancashire County Council is to open a two-day meeting to consider whether to approve an application for fracking in Little Plumpton<br>14.00 RBS Annual General Meeting in RBS Conference Centre, Edinburgh<br>14.30 Former England captain Sol Campbell talks to LBC radio about his London Mayoral bid<br>11.00 Shadow communities and local government minister Steve Reed and Lord O'Donnell speak at a Reform event in London to launch its report on the 2015 spending review <br>18.30 Kwasi Kwarteng MP speaks at the launch in London of his book on free enterprise <br>19.30 Boris Johnson takes questions at State of London Debate, broadcast on LBC Radio</p><p><em>Birthdays:</em></p><p>Conservative MPs Jesse Norman and Andrew Bingham turn 53</p><p><em>On this day:</em></p><p>Chancellor Anthony Barber announced his decision to temporarily float the pound in 1972</p><p></p><p><span lang=""><strong>TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</strong></span></p><p><span lang=""><strong>HOUSE OF COMMONS</strong></span></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8">11:30</a>: Justice questions (topicals <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9">at 12:15</a>)</p><p><em>Main business</em><br>European Union (Finance) Bill: Committee and remaining stages<br>High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill: Instruction (No.3): Motion to approve<br>Adjournment debate: Expansion of the Butec facility in the North West of Scotland (Ian Blackford, SNP, Ross, Skye and Lochaber)</p><p><span lang=""><strong>HOUSE OF LORDS</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span lang=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://10" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="10">14:30pm</a>: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br>- Lord Dubs (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to protect tenants in the private rented sector.<br>- Lord Farmer (Con) to ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report Dying without Dignity, what steps they are taking to ensure that everyone in need has access to good palliative care.<br>- Lord Storey (Lib Dem) to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to develop mental health services for pupils and young people.<br>- Baroness Worthington (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on investment in renewable energy of their decision to end the subsidy for onshore wind farms.</span></p><p><span lang=""></span><span lang=""><em>Main business</em><br>Psychoactive Substances Bill [HL]: Committee (Day 1 of 2)<br>Question for short debate on the 2016 Welsh Assembly elections and the recent and planned changes to the Welsh devolution settlement (Baroness Randerson, Lib Dem) (1 hour)</span></p><p><span lang=""><strong>WESTMINSTER HALL</strong></span></p><p><span lang=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://11" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="11">9:30 - 11:00</a>: Government policy on support for pupils with English as an additional language (Stewart Jackson, Con, Peterborough)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12">11:00 - 11:30</a>: Reforming the House of Lords and the number of Peers (David Morris, Con, Morecambe and Lunesdale)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13">14:30 - 16:00</a> Work of the Crown Prosecution Service (Teresa Pearce, Lab, Erith and Thamesmeade)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">16:00 - 16:30</a>: Local government funding in Tameside and Oldham (Angela Rayner, Lab, Ashton-under-Lyme)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15">16:30- 17:30</a>: BBC investment in the East and West Midlands (Mark Spencer, Con, Sherwood)</span></p></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-47324338338740614512015-06-19T08:28:00.001+01:002015-06-19T08:28:52.113+01:00Let's get radical.. <br><br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">David Cameron will issue a hard-hitting message today to the Muslim community, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b0f&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">as Tom Whitehead reports on our front page</a>, warning that some parts "quietly condoning" anti-Western ideology is making it easier for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) to recruit in British cities.</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">The Prime Minister will urge Muslims to do more to combat the lure of Isil among young people, and tell those who have lost loved ones to extremist groups to stop "finger pointing" when their relatives flee to Syria or Iraq. His speech risks a backlash from some Muslim leaders. However, he is said to believe a "frank debate" is needed, and judging by how some front pages have distilled his message - the Daily Mail went for "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b10" target="_blank">PM: UK Muslims helping Jihadis</a>" - he isn't pulling his punches.</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">"False ideas about Islamic beliefs should be confronted and corrected; its essential teachings about love and peace should be embraced," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b11&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">we say</a>. "Likewise, we might infer that the Prime Minister is not criticising Islam but urging Muslims to play a stronger role in promoting Islam as it truly is. This is a courageous statement to make. But undeniably necessary."</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Is this the blunt sort of message Cameron could only deliver as head of a Conservative government, unrestrained by the Liberal Democrats? Seemingly not. In 2011, the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b12" target="_blank">Prime Minister warned </a>that "we need a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and much more active, muscular liberalism" in order to stop "Islamist extremism". </span><span lang="">Cameron's tone may seem more strident than before he entered government. In June 2007, the Tory leader <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b13" target="_blank">wrote in the Guardian</a> of how he had stayed for two days with a Muslim family in Birmingham, and found that "many Muslims I've talked to about these issues are deeply offended by the use of the word 'Islamic' or 'Islamist' to describe the terrorist threat we face today".</span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">However, the Tory leader has consistently been unafraid to tackle the issue head-on, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b14" target="_blank">using a speech in January 20</a>07 to describe Muslim extremists as often the "mirror image" of the BNP and accuse them of seeking out grievances to promote an "us and them" society. Their ideology, he said, was one of the "great threats of our age". Now in government, the Prime Minister is doing something about it. </span><span lang=""><br></span></span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03346/ADAMS20150619_3346096k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>GRECIAN BURN</strong><br><br>The head of the International Monetary Fund said Greece cannot delay paying its debt after a crucial meeting of eurozone finance ministers ended without a rescue deal being struck, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b15&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Isabelle Fraser reports</a>. Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, issued the threat as eurozone finance ministers gathered in Luxembourg to find an 11th hour solution in what was seen as Greece's last chance to strike a deal with creditors to release bail-out cash and save its eurozone future.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Grexit might work in Britain's favour, Jeremy Warner argues, as "it would be a severe setback, or even fatal blow, to the EU's whole mission statement of "ever closer union"". "The realisation that progressive European integration is in fact reversible would fundamentally alter the nature of the beast," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b16&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">he writes</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">GONE WITH THE WIND</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Onshore wind farm subsidies are to be ended but thousands more turbines could still be built before the payments are stopped, Amber Rudd, the energy secretary has announced. A key subsidy scheme that has fuelled the spread of wind turbines, the Renewables Obligation (RO), will be closed in April 2016 instead of April 2017, Ms Rudd said on Thursday. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b17&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Here is the full story</a>.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It's time, in short, for a rethink – and for the Conservatives to come up with their own ideas on energy," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b18&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">writes Fraser Nelson</a>. "David Cameron and George Osborne have just defeated Ed Miliband electorally; now they have to defeat him intellectually. It should be a far easier task."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT EU</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron's drive to reform the EU is driven by "hatred", "lies" and "national resentment," the president of the European Parliament suggested <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">tonight</a> in a strongly-worded attack, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b19&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Matthew Holehouse reports</a>. Martin Schulz, one of the most powerful men in Brussels, lashed out at Britain's plans to strip migrants of benefits for four years, just hours after meeting the Prime Minister for breakfast.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as Nicola Sturgeon has told the Prime Minister take into account her views during his talks with European leaders about renegotiating Britain's EU membership, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b1a&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Simon Johnson reports</a>. Cameron's hopes of winning a significant ally in his battle for EU reform stood in the balance <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">on Thursday night</a> as the first exit poll in the Danish election left the result too close to call. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b1b&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b1c" target="_blank">Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman has told the Guardian </a>that former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson has agreed to head the Labour yes campaign during the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">IT'S THE CHAIR HEIR BUNCH</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The politics Oscars have been decided as MPs learned the results of the elections to the powerful – and lucrative – posts of the chairmanships of the House of Commons select committees. Labour's Meg Hillier is taking over from Margaret Hodge as chair of the Public Accounts Committee and Conservative Jesse Norman will succeed John Whittingdale as chair of the Culture, Media and Sport committee. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b1d&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Rosa Prince has the full results</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DECRYING OVER UNSPILT MILK</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Caffè Nero's policy not to stock milk from farms in the badger cull area because of pressure from animal rights activists was "utterly unacceptable", a Cabinet minister has said. Chris Grayling, the leader of the House of Commons, said the coffee shop chain was wrong to make the decision and had "damaged the livelihood" of people unconnected to the row. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b5a&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith has the story</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF NAT-ZKABAN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">JK Rowling is at the centre of a new online row with Twitter's so-called "cybernat" trolls after challenging the claim that there is no longer any anti-English sentiment in the SNP. The Harry Potter author sparked controversy after questioning a statement by a journalist that "every trace of ethnic nationalism was expunged from the party in the 1970s". In response, pro-independence supporters told her to "grow up" and claimed they were tired of her using her influence to "mislead the public". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b5b&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Auslan Cramb has more</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THE TRUTH? YOU CAN HANDLE THE FRACKING TRUTH!</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A secret Government report into the impact of fracking on house prices and rural communities must be published in the public interest, the Information Commissioner has ruled. Ministers last year published a heavily redacted version of the report, commissioned by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), in response to a request from campaigners, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b5c&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Emily Gosden reports</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">MARGINALS OF ERROR</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The post-mortem into Labour's election defeat continues, with Keiran Pedley speaking to James Morris, Labour's then internal pollster, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b5d" target="_blank">for his latest "Polling Matters" podcast</a>. Morris tells him that Miliband genuinely did think he was going to win, and admits that the party had not been polling any marginal "battleground" seats and that it had limited information on the Tories' efforts to take Labour-held seats.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">KNOCKING ON EVANS' DOOR</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Suzanne Evans, Ukip's most prominent female politician, has been sacked as a media spokesman after she appeared on the BBC's Daily Politics and said Nigel Farage was seen by voters as a "very divisive character". This marks a major fall for Evans, who was once praised by Farage as an "absolute tower of strength" and anointed by him as acting leader, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b5e" target="_blank">the Guardian's Rowena Mason reports</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister, appeared to be courting both sides of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict as he appeared at Vladimir Putin's "vanity summit", hours after being offered a job by the government of Kiev, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b5f&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Matthew Holehouse reports</a>. Blair appeared <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://10" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="10">on Thursday morning</a>alongside Russian bankers and government ministers at the St Petersburg Economic Forum, a pet project of Vladimir Putin modelled on the World Economic Forum in Davos.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b60" target="_blank">polling by Ipsos MORI for the Evening Standard </a>has found that voters want the next Labour leader to resemble Tony Blair. Labour supporters were more likely to name Blair than any other past Labour leader as the best role model for Ed Miliband's successor.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">SHEERMAN'S SEX APPEAL</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Labour MP Barry Sheerman has suggested that giving teenagers the right to <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b61" target="_blank">vote would make the "more vulnerable" to sexual abuse</a>. Speaking on Thursday as MPs debated giving 16 and 17 year olds the vote in the upcoming EU referendum, he said: ""Isn't what is missing out of this the responsibility we have as parliamentarians to care for young people who are very vulnerable?" </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Taken aback by this somewhat violent swerve off-piste, I was anxious to hear Mr Sheerman explain precisely how taking part in an election could expose the young to unwanted physical advances," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b62&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">says our sketchwriter Michael Dea</a>con. "Perhaps he was thinking of Westminster MPs knocking on doors during the campaign. But immediately after making his assertion he sat down, as if satisfied that he'd made himself clear."</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THE GOOD WIFE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yvette Cooper has called time on the traditional political wife as she branded the role "uncomfortable" and "outdated", declaring that Britain was now "long beyond the era" of political wives posing alongside their husbands after speeches. Taking questions from Westminster's political journalists, the Labour leadership candidate revealed she had agreed not to join husband Ed Balls on stage when the 2010 contest results were announced and expected him to remain in his seat this time round. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b63&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith has more</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">NO HALL PASS FOR THE TORIES</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tony Hall, the Director General of the BBC, has warned the Conservatives not to "screw around" with the BBC and other broadcasters ahead of a Government review of the Corporation's future, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b64&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Peter Dominiczak reports</a>. Lord Hall admitted that the BBC is entering a "period of risk" but said that it is important to have a conversation with the Government about the broadcaster's future.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THAT SINKING FEELING...</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MPs will be forced out of the House of Commons chamber for a minimum of two years to make way for works to restore the crumbling Palace of Westminster, amid fears it could sink into the Thames, in a move that could cost £5.7 billion and take four decades to complete. The cheapest option to carry out crucial repairs to Parliament would cost £3.5 billion and force MPs and peers out of the entire Palace for six years, an independent review released on Thursday found. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b65&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Emily Gosden has more</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DANCZUK'S DELI DISPUTE</font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b66&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Selfie queen Karen Danczuk</a> has been slapped with a bill of £2,000 in rent row over her former deli - that she claims she sold. Mrs Danczuk, wife of Labour MP Simon Danczuk, claimed to have sold the deli in February after standing down as councillor in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b67&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Here are more deta</a>ils. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THATCHER'S AIR WAR</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Margaret Thatcher thought the BBC "assisted the enemy" during the Falklands War by broadcasting "the next likely steps" in the campaign before they took place, documents published for the first time on Friday will disclose. The former prime minister wrote that she was "very angry" at some of the corporation's coverage, which she thought placed more value on reporting the latest developments than on "the safety of our forces". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b68&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Tom Rowley has more</a>.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03346/190615-MATT-web_3346700a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b69" target="_blank">@RobFordMancs</a>: Not sure sacking Suzanne Evans for pointing out that Farage is divisive - something regularly seen in polling - much helps his image problem</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>Fraser Nelson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b6a&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">The Tories must seize the chance to rethink climate change policy</a></p><p>Jeremy Warner - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b6b&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">Grexit: the truth is it would help Britain no end</a></p><p><em><strong>From the Politics Blog</strong></em></p><p>Julia Hartley-Brewer - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b6c&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">If we need the Pope to teach us about science, then God help us all</a></p><p>Mark Littlewood - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b6d&WT.mc_id=e_DM25647&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_19&utm_campaign=DM25647" target="_blank">How free marketeers triumphed in the battle of ideas</a></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p><span lang=""><strong><em>From elsewhere</em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="">Steve Hilton - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b6e" target="_blank">Glastonbury: my model for policy reform</a></span></p><p><span lang="">Tim Wigmore - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hb00dd7c,15e9b0a,15e9b6f" target="_blank">How Green party members' long-term influence over policy leads to bizarre results<br></a><br></span></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p><span lang=""><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></p><p><span lang="">09.30: ONS public sector finance figures to be published</span></p><p><span lang=""></span><span lang="">20.00: BBC Radio 4's 'Any Questions' from Edinburgh with SNP MP Joanna Cherry, former Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont, Defra minister Rory Stewart and Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham</span></p><p><span lang="">David Cameron in Slovakia for event attended by host of EU leaders</span></p><p><span lang=""></span><span lang="">The Greek debt crisis expected to be discussed at the ECOFIN meeting of EU finance ministers in Luxembourg</span></p><p><span lang="">Russian President Vladimir Putin is to meet Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the St Peterburg International Economic Forum</span></p><p><span lang="">3rd anniversary of Julian Assange entering Ecuador embassy</span></p></font></span><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Boris Johnson turns 51 today, and former Labour defence secretary Bob Ainsworth turns 63</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">800th anniversary of renewed oaths to King after signing Magna Carta<br></span></font></p><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">No business announced</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF LORDS</font></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Second Readings of Private Members' Bills:<br>Airports Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill [HL]<br>Easter Trading Bill [HL]<br>Regulation of Political Opinion Polling Bill [HL]</font></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-63010212261384113342015-06-19T08:27:00.001+01:002015-06-19T08:27:53.662+01:00<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k-3w_LxQsWY/VYPEeja0kVI/AAAAAAAAGUw/aWV0fHaWSHE/s1600/IMG_3113-773663.JPG"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k-3w_LxQsWY/VYPEeja0kVI/AAAAAAAAGUw/aWV0fHaWSHE/s320/IMG_3113-773663.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6161984744355828050" /></a></p>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-55697812409989070672015-06-18T17:50:00.001+01:002015-06-18T17:50:58.402+01:00Jez he can..<br><br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Labour's four leadership hopefuls clashed last night in their first TV hustings. So who won?</span><span lang=""> <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c180d&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Jeremy Corbyn came away best</a>, winning repeated cheers from the audience as he railed against austerity, Tony Blair and the "illegal war" in Iraq. He</span><span lang=""> had the advantage of not being a front-runner, so had little to lose by being himself. "</span><span lang="">If the audience in Nuneaton is representative, then those Labour MPs who "lent" him their votes in order to have a full debate may yet come to regret it", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c180e&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">writes Rosa Prince</a>. </span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span><span lang="">Seemingly worried by the support Corbyn has been getting from non-Labour voters, the party has tried to stop the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c180f&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">#ToriesforCorbyn movement </a>by warning that it will check out those who've paid £3 to vote in the election to see if they "share" the party's values. This includes looking <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1810" target="_blank">online for criticism from Labour</a>, which risks stopping any voters who were disaffected by Ed Miliband joining in. Auditing every new recruit for "Labour values" may also be rather expensive.</span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">What about the other three leadership contenders? Andy Burnham, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper had their tough moments, like when an audience member asked the contenders to pick out one thing they most admired about Nicola Sturgeon. The trio kept her at a distance, stressing how different their values were, while Corbyn spoke unabashedly of how he had shared platforms with the SNP leader. "None of the three main candidates can lay out a truly new or radical path for their party because they're too scared of upsetting their party," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1811&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">said Dan Hodges</a>.</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Cooper struggled to break through, chiding the Tory and Ukip "arms race of rhetoric" on immigration and promising "controlled" immigration. However, the shadow Home Secretary sounded eerily like Nigel Farage and David Cameron, who both call for "controlled" immigration too. Kendall raised eyebrows by calling for an "Australian-style points system" on immigration, an infamously Ukip policy, while promising not to "out-Ukip Ukip". </span><span lang="">Andy Burnham, as the man to beat, will be relieved that no-one landed any direct hits on him. Kendall did her best, seizing on his declaration that he would quit if he couldn't lead Labour to election victory as "the party comes first" to tell him that "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1812" target="_blank">country comes first</a>". </span></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Kendall portrayed a Charlie Sheen-like desire to win for her answer, repeating variations of the word "winning" in every sentence of her response. "I am going to be the Labour leader that the Tories fear and that's right because we need to win," she said, as if fuelled on <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1813&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Sheen's tiger blood</a>. Will voters warm to her ambition?</font></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03345/ADAMS20150618_3345123k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>PAYING EU BACK WILL COSTAS TOO MUCH</strong><br><br>The Greek government has admitted it will become the first developed country in history to default on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if its creditor powers fail to strike a deal with the Leftist government over its eurozone future in the coming days, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1814&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Mehreen Khan reports from Athens</a>. With just 13 days before the country's bail-out programme officially expires, finance ministers will gather in Luxembourg on Thursday to discuss whether to finally give assent to release bail-out cash and stave off an unprecedented default. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes as Germany disclosed that it is making contingency plans for Greece to leave the euro as "make or break talks" are expected to end without agreement today. Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany's finance minister, said he was not hopeful that Greece and its creditors would reach agreement on the release of new bail-out funds. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1815&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Read more here</a>. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on how the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1816&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Greek central bank is playing with fire</a>. Daniel Hannan writes that Syriza's "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1817&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">leftist dogma makes Grexit pointless</a>". "Britain could so nearly have suffered the same fate as Greece", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1818&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">warns Allister Heath</a>. "If Greece's decline teaches us anything, it is that when it comes to political economy, fashionable ideas can be dangerously wrong." </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>O</strong><strong>SBORNE TO BE WILD? NOT TODAY</strong></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">George Osborne stood in for David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions for the first time yesterday. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1819&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">You can watch his performance here</a>. Was it a slanging match? Our sketchwriter Michael Deacon says it "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c181a&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">didn't quite work out like that</a>". </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Hungrily Tories awaited the inevitable trouncing. Poor old Labour, with their limp leadership campaign and their swithering over Europe and their general air of defeated ennui. George would knock them into next week," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c181b&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">he wrote</a>. "But then Mr Benn got up, and calmly and politely asked six questions about suicide bombers, Islamist radicalisation, terrorism and refugees. What a swindle! The rotten louse had only gone and forced Mr Osborne to talk about serious issues!" </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">LONDON BAWLING</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Boris Johnson was recorded allegedly telling a London cabbie to "f**k off and die", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c181c" target="_blank">in footage passed to the Sun newspaper</a>. The London Mayor launched the attack after a passing driver accused him of failing to protect the capital's black cabs, going on to bawl at him: "I hope you die". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c181d&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Read more here</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">MEET NIGEL 'MILLWALL' FARAGE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ukip leader Nigel Farage has conceded that "not everybody" likes him, as the debate about who should lead the EU referendum 'out' campaign rages on. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c181e" target="_blank">The Independent's Jon Stone</a> reports on the Ukip leader's comments at a press conference, coming just hours after he told LBC radio that he would "of course" be prepared to lead the campaign if pressured to do so.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DON'T LET IT BRING YOU DOWN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Neil Young has criticised real estate billionaire Donald Trump for using his song Rockin' In The Free World when the Republican launched a US presidential campaign. In a statement, the singer-songwriter said: "Donald Trump was not authorised to use Rockin' In The Free World in his presidential candidacy announcement." <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c181f&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Martin Chilton has more</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">THE FROSTY REPORT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron has warned he is "fast losing patience" with the Iraq inquiry after Sir John Chilcot insisted he still cannot say when his findings will be delivered. In an exchange of letters, the Prime Minister was told by Sir John that those mentioned in the report are still arguing their case for changes. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1820&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Read the story here</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">SAJ'S SUPER SHARE SALE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sajid Javid, the Business Secretary, overruled civil service advice warning that part of the latest Royal Mail shares sell-off would not be value for money, it has emerged. Martin Donnelly, the most senior civil servant in the Business Department, told Javid that giving Royal Mail employees free shares "does not provide a tangible return for the taxpayer". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1821&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith has more</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TAKES TWO% TO TANGO</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of America's most senior military figures has called on Britain and other Nato countries to end the "downward trend" in defence spending and accept that "security does not come for free". Deborah Lee James, US Secretary of the Air Force, told an audience in Brussels that Nato was at a "crossroads" and must increase spending to help counter Russian aggression. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1822&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">PATRIOT GAMES</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Labour has been losing support from its traditional working class supporters because of its "extremely unpatriotic" outlook, one of its MPs has warned. Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, told the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1823" target="_blank">New Statesman's George Eaton</a>: "There's just a feeling that we're half-hearted about being British, we're half-hearted about the monarchy, we're half-hearted about the way we see our country in the world."</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03345/180615-MATT-web_3345128a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1824" target="_blank">@DPJHodges</a>: "Tea or Coffee, Yvette?". "I like tea. But I also think it's important we don't forget about the coffee as well".</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><span lang=""><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Daniel Hannan - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1825&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Syriza's leftist dogma makes Grexit pointless</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Joe Shute - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1826&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">How to master the art of political manipulation</a></span></font></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From the Politics Blog</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Peter Tatchell - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1827&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">Britain should treat Saudi Arabia as a pariah state</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul Nuttall - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1828&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">It's pretty obvious why Labour voters are turning to Ukip</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From elsewhere</font></em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Frankie Boyle - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c1829" target="_blank">The Labour leadership election is an oasis of boredom</a><br></font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Tim Montgomerie - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c182a" target="_blank">The living wage could be a coup for Osborne</a><br></font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">AGENDA</font></strong></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">09.00 Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to meet Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny in London. He is also set to meet President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Commons leader Chris Grayling are expected to meet Schulz as well.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">12.00 Nicola Sturgeon at Scottish First Minister's Questions</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">17.00 Memorial service held for Charles Kennedy at Glasgow University</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">22.35 'Question Time' on BBC1, coming from High Wycombe. Panel includes Alex Salmond, David Davis, Caroline Flint, editor of the Financial Times Lionel Barber and columnist Melanie Phillips</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chancellor George Osborne and Business Secretary Sajid Javid meet European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eurogroup meeting of eurozone finance ministers to take place in Luxembourg</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Festival of Ramadan begins</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Danish general election to take place</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo (<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hae87f37,15c1808,15c182b&WT.mc_id=e_DM25388&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_18&utm_campaign=DM25388" target="_blank">follow our "as it happened" blog here</a>)</span></font></p><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF COMMONS</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12">9:30</a>: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs questions (topicals <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13">at 10:05am</a>)<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">10:15</a>: Questions to the Church Commissioners, Public Accounts Commission and Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission<br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15">10:30</a>: Business statement</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""></span><span lang=""><em>Main business</em></span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""></span><span lang="">European Union Referendum Bill: Committee (Day 2)<br>Adjournment debate: Recruitment and retention of teachers (Louise Haigh, Lab, Sheffield, Heeley)</span></span></font></p><p></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HOUSE OF LORDS</font></strong></span><p></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://16" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="16">11:00</a>: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br>- Baroness Berridge (Con) to ask what discussions they have had with the government of Burma concerning the persecution and trafficking of the Rohingya Muslims and ethnic minorities in Burma.<br>- Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab) to ask what measures they will prioritise to reduce economic and social inequality in a One Nation Britain.<br>- Lord Ramsbotham (Crossbench) to ask what contracts have been let for the proposed secure college.<br>- Topical question</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Main business</font></em></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Debate on recent and proposed reforms to the state and private pensions, including the triple lock, the introduction of a single tier pension and increased pensions freedom (Lord Flight, Con)<br>Debate on the contribution of the creative industries to the UK economy (Baroness Wheatcroft, Con)</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">WESTMINSTER HALL</font></strong></span></p><p><span lang=""><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://17" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="17">13:30</a>: Tibet (Fabian Hamilton, Lab, Leeds North East)<br></font></span></span></p><div><span lang=""><span lang=""><br></span></span></div></span><span lang="" style="font-size: 14px;"></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-79654021657616404512015-06-16T14:55:00.001+01:002015-06-16T14:55:39.278+01:00More EU..<table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Europe is back on the agenda today, with MPs preparing to wrangle over the finer points of the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f157&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">referendum bill as it enters committee stage</a>. David Cameron is hoping to pacify backbenchers by promising to limit the amount of public money his government can spend putting its case for why Britain should stay in the EU, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f158&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Ben Riley-Smith reports</a>. </span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">No 10 has made this move after reports that Tory backbenchers were far from gruntled about the Prime Minister's attempt to scrap "purdah" rules, which would have </span><span lang="" class="">potentially allowed the government to use the full might of the Whitehall machine to campaign to keep the UK inside the EU. As many as <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f159&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">50 Tory MPs were set to back an amendment </a>to stop this, confident that - with Labour and SNP support - they could overturn the Conservatives' majority of 12 in the Commons and give their leader a bloody nose. </span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Tory whips have been quick to reach out to potential rebels in order to avoid a "Maastricht moment", echoing the row that crippled John Major's premiership in the 1990s, just six weeks after an election victory. "In a party in which divisions between Right and Left have largely broken down, Europe remains the single issue that has party-splitting potential," warns <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f15a&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Paul Goodman, executive editor of ConservativeHome</a>. One senior <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f15b&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Tory MP told Michael Fabricant</a> that Cameron "will come back from Europe with some botched deal where we have regained little sovereignty". However, Professor Tim Bale says Cameron shouldn't "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f15c&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">be too spooked" by the "better-off-outers on the Tory benches</a>", citing polling showing that fewer than two in ten Tory members would vote to leave the EU.</span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Ministers have settled another question hanging over the EU referendum: when exactly it will be. The idea of holding a quick vote - as early as next May - initially gathered steam as some argued it would allow Cameron to capitalise on the public's goodwill before any "mid-term blues". </span><span lang="" class="">However, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f15d" target="_blank" class="">BBC's Newsnight </a>reported that the government has ruled out holding the vote as early as next May, with ministers tabling an amendment this morning to make it so. Eurosceptics previously feared that an early vote would give Cameron not enough time to renegotiate anything meaningful with EU partners. "All this faffing about over when we have the referendum just looked like a sign of weakness," a Tory MP told me. "Let's focus on having a proper renegotiation."</span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">The Prime Minister is due to meet with the leaders of Italy, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Slovakia as he plans to speak to all member states ahead of an EU summit at the end of the month, where he is expected to launch the second phase - a "technical study" by UK and EU officials - of the reform he wants. In short, he's preparing to dig in, as this renegotiation may take a while. </span><span lang="" class=""><span lang="" class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></span></span></p></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03342/ADAMS20150616_3342565k.jpg" style="outline: none;" class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""><p class=""><strong class="">THEY'RE SWARMIN' TO CORBYN</strong></p><p class="">Jeremy Corbyn is in the Labour leadership race after reaching the necessary 35 nominations with just minutes to spare before the deadline, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f15e&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Michael Wilkinson reports</a>. There were reports of MPs running into the nominations office with just two or three minutes until the noon deadline.</p><p class="">However, not everyone is happy about Corbyn's success. The decision of some Labour MPs to back Jeremy Corbyn so he made the ballot despite disagreeing with his politics triggered claims the party had not learnt from the election defeat, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f15f&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Ben Riley-Smith reports</a>. "As long as the Labour Party continues to communicate to the British people that Jeremy Corbyn's politics are in some way its own politics, then Labour can never really hope to govern again," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f160&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">says Dan Hodges</a>. "But today Labour has chosen to hold up a giant banner that says "Jeremy Corbyn's politics are our politics".</p><p class=""><strong class="">MY BIG FAT GREEK DREADING</strong></p><p class="">Greece is on the brink of economic meltdown after Germany appeared poised to push the country out of the eurozone, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f161&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Peter Dominiczak reports</a>. With the embattled country set to default on a €1.5billion (£1.1billion) debt repayment, senior German politicians warned that "enough is enough". This comes as Greek premier Alexis Tsipras accused Europe's creditor powers of trying to subvert Greece's elected government after five years of "pillaging", warning in solemn terms that his country will defend its sovereign dignity whatever the consequences. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f162&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has</a> more. </p><p class=""><strong class="">LESS PHUBBING, MORE LEARNING</strong></p><p class="">Ministers will order a crackdown on the "curse of low-level disruption" in the classroom which can lead to children losing up to 38 days of learning time every year, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f163&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Peter Dominiczak reports</a>. Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, will order a review of training programmes across the country to ensure that teachers are able to deal with disruptive children using mobile phones in the classroom or distracting other students.</p><p class=""><strong class="">IS IT AN MP YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?</strong></p><p class="">Lionel Richie has been spotted about in Westminster. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f164" target="_blank" class="">The Mirror's Dan Bloom reports</a> that a starstruck school group asked for autographs, and the veteran crooner even waved 'hello' to the public gallery after he entered the House of Commons chamber behind Speaker John Bercow's chair. The soul legend was also seen sitting in the House of Lords gallery as Francis Maude was delivering a speech.</p><p class=""><strong class="">JANICE'S NEW FRONT</strong></p><p class="">Janice Atkinson, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f165&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">the MEP expelled by Ukip over false expenses claims</a>, has found some new friends in the European Parliament - the National Front. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f166" target="_blank" class="">According to Politico's Florian Eder</a>, she will now be vice-chair of the "Europe of Nations and Freedoms" grouping, which will be headed by FN leader Marine le Pen - someone who <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f167&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Nigel Farage has kept his distance from.</a></p><p class=""><strong class="">DAVE GETS BLATTERED</strong></p><p class="">David Cameron is displaying Fifa-style levels of corruption by allowing the government to spend taxpayers' money campaigning to keep Britain in the European Union, Nigel Farage has said. The Ukip leader compared the Prime Minister's referendum approach to Sepp Blatter's troubled Fifa presidency and branded the move an "absolute disgrace", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f168&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Ben Riley-Smith reports</a>. </p><p class=""><strong class="">THE PRICE ISN'T RIGHTS</strong></p><p class="">Boris Johnson has cast doubt on David Cameron's bid to scrap the Human Rights Act, warning that the Government will struggle to fulfil the manifesto pledge because it could lead to people having "less protection". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f169" target="_blank" class="">The Mayor of London told LBC radio</a> that he is yet to be convinced that the Conservatives can replace the legislation without breaking the European Convention on Human Rights, which he called a "very important document". </p><p class=""><strong class="">POLITICAL PUPPET PALS</strong></p><p class="">People have noticed that the puppets in the new Travelodge advert look a lot like some familiar politicians, namely David Cameron. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f16a" target="_blank" class="">The Sun's Emer Martin </a>has also pointed out an eerily Ed Miliband-ish puppet, and one that doesn't look too dissimilar to Plaid Cymru's leader Leanne Wood. </p><p class=""><strong class="">SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED (TO DENNIS)</strong></p><p class="">Dennis Skinner, the veteran left-wing Labour MP, has admitted he has never sent an e-mail as he believes "in keeping the postman in work". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f16b" target="_blank" class="">Speaking to Buzzfeed's Jim Waterson</a>, he also expressed bafflement about the number of people running tribute accounts under his name on social media, and said that he refuses to have a mobile phone because "there's phones everywhere".</p><p class=""><strong class="">CONT-REV-ERSY BREWS...</strong></p><p class="">Traditional Christian teaching could effectively be "criminalised" in some settings under David Cameron's plans for new anti-extremist banning orders, a top Anglican theologian and former Parliamentary draftsman has warned. The Rev Dr Mike Ovey, a former lawyer and now principal of Oak Hill Theological College in London, said proposals for new "Extremism Disruption Orders" could be a "disaster area" for people from all the mainstream religions. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f16c&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">John Bingham has the story</a>.<br class=""> </p></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""><strong class=""></strong><br class=""><br class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03342/160615-MATT-web_3342373a.jpg" style="outline: none;" class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><p class=""><strong class="">TOO MANY TWEETS </strong></p><p class=""><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f16d" target="_blank" class="">@MrGeorgeClarke</a>: I'm sorry but the Labour leadership campaign is a joke!!! Burnham will win it but will never become prime minister..none are strong enough!</p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></span></p><p class=""><strong class="">COMMENT</strong></p><p class=""><em class=""><strong class="">From The Telegraph</strong></em></p><span lang="" class=""><p class="">Paul Goodman - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f16e&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">David Cameron should give Ministers their freedom in EU campaign</a></p><p class="">Laurence Dodds - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f16f&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Can video games help fight Islamic State?</a></p><p class=""><em class=""><strong class="">From the Politics Blog</strong></em></p><p class="">Professors Tim Bale and Paul Webb - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f170&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">Only 15 per cent of Conservative party members would vote to leave the EU</a></p><p class="">Julia Hartley-Brewer - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f171&WT.mc_id=e_DM24754&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_16&utm_campaign=DM24754" target="_blank" class="">The Tories are kicking away the ladder for young people wanting a decent education</a></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class=""><em class="">From elsewhere</em></strong></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Rachel Sylvester - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f172" target="_blank" class="">Tories have a chance to shatter the class ceiling</a></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">Jonathan Reynolds - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=habd8b29,156f152,156f173" target="_blank" class="">If Labour doesn't take itself seriously, no-one else will</a></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class="">AGENDA</strong></span></p><p class="">09: 30 UK monthly inflation figures for May to be published by ONS. Last month's figures showed CPI fell by 0.1 per cent in the year to April 2015; it's expected to return to positive territory.</p><p class="">Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to meet Michelle Obama in London</p><p class="">Home Secretary Theresa May attends a Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg</p><p class="">Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is to set out government plans for every pupil to sit at least five 'hard' GCSEs</p><p class="">Michelle Obama is to visit London. She will tour a school and go to 10 Downing Street to take tea with David and Samantha Cameron</p><p class="">11:15 Culture and Digital Economy Minister Ed Vaizey speaks at the UK internet governance forum in London </p><p class="">11.30 Harriet Harman speaks about human rights</p><p class="">16:00 Tony Blair to give a speech in Poland on globalisation. .</p><p class="">18:30 Dianne Abbott MP, Sadiq Khan MP, David Lammy MP and Gareth Thomas MP attend a Centre For London event on the London Mayoral election </p><p class="">EU Referendum Bill makes committee stage</p><p class="">Donald Trump makes announcement on possible U.S. presidential bid</p><p class="">Lord Flight, former Conservative deputy chairman, turns 67 today<br class=""> </p><p class=""></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class="">TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</strong></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class="">HOUSE OF COMMONS</strong></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">11:30: Treasury questions (topicals at 12:15)</span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><em class="">Main business:</em></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">European Union Referendum Bill: Committee (Day 1)<br class="">Landfill Tax (Qualifying Fines) Order 2015: Motion to approve<br class="">Adjournment debate: Refugee situation in the Mediterranean (Keith Vaz, Lab, Leicester East)</span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class="">HOUSE OF LORDS</strong></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class="">14:30: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br class="">- Baroness Gale (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are undertaking to ensure that women who have suffered domestic violence and abuse have access to the legal and emotional support they may require.<br class="">- Baroness Hollis (Lab) of Heigham to ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of those affected by the social rented sector size criteria who have downsized into smaller properties.<br class="">- Baroness Cox (Crossbench) to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to recognise the killings of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in 1915 as genocide.<br class="">- Topical question</span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><em class="">Main business</em><br class="">Childcare Bill [HL]: Second Reading<br class="">Question for short debate on the Government's priorities for the Sustainable Development Goals to be agreed by the United Nations in September (Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale, Lab)</span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><strong class="">WESTMINSTER HALL</strong></span></p><p class=""><span lang="" class=""><span lang="" class="">9:30 - 11:00: Iran and the proposed nuclear agreement (Guto Bebb, Con, Aberconwy)<br class="">11:00 - 11:30: Prisons on the Isle of Sheppey (Gordon Henderson, Con, Sittingbourne and Sheppey)<br class="">14:30 - 16:00: Access to drugs for ultra-rare diseases (Greg Mulholland, Lib Dem, Leeds North West)<br class="">16:00 - 16:30: Dualling of Worcester 's southern link and the Carrington bridge (Robin Walker, Con, Worcester)<br class="">16:30 - 17:30: Negotiation and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (Patrick Grady, SNP, Glasgow North)</span></span></p></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-72656518554814339162015-06-15T12:36:00.001+01:002015-06-15T12:36:30.476+01:00Divisions of Labour.. <br><br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Labour's leadership race is getting nasty, with front-runners Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham pronouncing the death of "Taliban New Labour" and boasting that the Blarities </span><span lang="">(i.e. Liz Kendall) are failing to recapture the party. "The fizzle and sparkle has gone already [in her campaign]," a source in a <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553618&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">rival camp told Rosa Prince</a>. "You can really </span><span lang="">tell that Liz lacks the experience of Andy and Yvette", another said. </span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">The Blairites are fighting back, with outgoing <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553619&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy </a>warning today that the party lost its best chance of winning a general election for around 20 </span><span lang="">years. "objectively this was the easiest election that we will face before I am a pensioner," the 47 year old will say. </span><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="">Meanwhile Tessa Jowell, who infamously said she would "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155361a" target="_blank">jump under a bus</a>" for Tony Blair, has popped by Andrew Marr's studio to warn that Labour had "<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155361b&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">lost the art </a></span></span></span><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155361b&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank"><span lang="">of winning</span></a>". <span lang="">Liam Byrne offered his own post-mortem, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155361c" target="_blank">writing in the Sunday Times</a> that the party can't rely on just "some mythical "progressive alliance" of Lib Dems and Labour". </span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Cooper's campaign may be pressing her experience, but her record in government risks being a burden. "She can't escape the past," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155361d&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">one MP told Dan Hodges</a>. Alistair Darling </span><span lang="">wrote scathingly about a cabinet colleague who, when he had sent the 2009 pre-Budget report off to the printers, tried to reopen negotiations in the middle of the night. "On </span><span lang="">the night before the pre-Budget report, I went to bed <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">at 11 o'clock</a> and told my office that no more changes could be made," he noted. "Next morning, [I was told] one of my </span><span lang="">colleagues had been demanding to speak to me <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">at 1.30am</a>, trying to reopen the settlement. I'll share their blushes. That is no way to run anything." That minister, I </span><span lang="">understand, is Yvette Cooper, then Work and Pensions Secretary. "She's hideously indecisive - very much of the Gordon Brown school of government," a Treasury official who worked with her told me.</span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">Burnham may be the front-runner, but some supporters are worried. "They haven't been able to build a sense of inevitability around him," one MP told Hodges, </span><span lang="">"and that's thrown them." Another MP told me, half-jokingly, that some are supporting him as the next leader "just because he's got a northern accent". </span></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="">The leadership hopefuls face their first test today, as they need to get the support of at least 35 MPs in time for nominations closing at midday. Burnham, Cooper and Kendall </span><span lang="">are certain to make the shortlist. Mary Creagh has dropped out, while Jeremy Corbyn is struggling to get on, with his recent spate of supporters backing him - while </span><span lang="">not agreeing with him - in order to keep the ballot as wide as possible. After Gordon Brown's coronation as Labour leader, with left-wing alternative John McDonnell failing to </span><span lang="">get enough support, Labour MPs seem keen to want to avoid any suggestion of a stitched-up closed contest. </span></span></font></p><p><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">PARISH NOTICE</font></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Apologies again for the delay, we've had to battle tech gremlins again this morning. I'm assured this shouldn't happen again.</font></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03341/ADAMS20150615_3341187k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">LOVE TO HATE EU</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron is facing his first bloody nose in the House of Commons just five weeks after the general election with as many as 50 Conservative MPs set to try to force changes to the rules of the European Union referendum, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155361e&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. The Prime Minister is hoping that the potential Tory rebels - which include former Tory Cabinet ministers Liam Fox and Owen Paterson - can be bought off with some "credible assurances" ahead of Tuesday's crunch votes on backbench amendments to the EU Referendum Bill.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This comes after <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155361f&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Paterson warned over the weekend</a> that removing the 'purdah' period for the EU vote, opening the door to government spending on European issues, was "unacceptable" and would mean voters would believe the referendum was not "fair". Meanwhile, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Danish Prime Minister who has been regarded as a good ally of Cameron, has decided she will oppose "discriminatory" welfare reforms and the treaty change Britain wants. "Don't think we will follow the Brits no matter what," she told a public event on Friday, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553620&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Matthew Holehouse reports</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">HEY SMALL SPENDERS...</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Western countries which fail to spend more than two per cent of their national income on defence are to be "named and shamed" by Nato, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553621&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. Ministers are hoping that the latest Nato defence spending league table, to be published next week before a meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels, will embarrass other countries into spending more on their Armed Forces because it will allow different countries' budgets to be marked against each other on a comparable basis.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">GAME OVER, TERRORISM</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Computer game makers should be recruited by government to help stop young Muslims being radicalised, the former reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation has said, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553622&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith repo</a>rts. Lord Carlile urged ministers to work with people who "create games on the internet" to stop the flow of British teenagers fleeing to the Middle East to fight for Isil.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">RIGHTS HAVE BEEN WRONGED</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The "good name" of human rights has been "distorted and devalued" and the Conservative's reforms will put this right, David Cameron says today. In a speech to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, Mr Cameron will say it had fallen to his "generation" to restore the reputation of human rights in Britain. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553623&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">SLOWEST. INQUIRY. EVER.</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The inquiry by Sir John Chilcot into the causes and consequences of the 2003 Iraq War could be scrapped, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553624&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">a former Labour attorney general has suggested</a>. Lord Morris of Aberavon, the chief legal officer in Tony Blair's Government from 1997 to 1999, asked ministers to weigh up the case for winding up the inquiry, which has so far cost over £10million.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">YES WE KAMALL?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Syed Kamall MEP, leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, is considering running for London Mayor, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553625" target="_blank">telling City A.M.'s Lauren Fedor</a> that he'll be "having quite a few conversations over the next few days to think about it." If he does throw his hat into the ring ,he'll be joining Zac Goldsmith, deputy mayor Stephen Greenhalgh and former England footballer Sol Campbell in the race.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">BEHAVE YOURSELF, SALMOND TELLS ANOTHER WOMAN</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Alex Salmond has defended telling a female minister to "behave yourself woman" in the Commons by saying his critics do not understand the "vernacular of Scotland", <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553626&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Ben Riley-Smith reports</a>. It came as the former Scottish First Minister got into a heated argument with a female Guardian journalist, Zoe Williams, accusing her of trying to be "entertaining" by challenging his use of the phrase. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">SHOE-ISH CONSPIRACY THEORY</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK urged people to share his bizarre Facebook post about a shoe that went missing while he slept. However, while the post was indeed shared, hundreds of times, Asghar Bukhari did not get the response he might have intended. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553627&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Elizabeth Roberts has the story</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DR PAIDGOOD</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A struggling NHS trust is paying £47,000 a month for a temporary finance chief despite a Government order to halt the "excessive and indefensible" rates paid on short-term contracts, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553628&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Laura Donnelly has found</a>. Barts NHS trust, which has the highest bill for agency doctors and nurses and is forecasting the greatest deficit in the history of the NHS, is paying rates equivalent to an annual salary of £561,000.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">UN-FAIR?</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Britain should take in its fair share of migrants stranded after crossing the Mediterranean, a United Nations representative on immigration has said in a critical intervention. Peter Sutherland, UN special representative of the secretary-general for international migration, said the UK was taking far less refugees caught in the boat migration crisis than Germany or Sweden. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553629&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03340/140615-MATT-web_3340762a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS </font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155362a" target="_blank">@TheoBertram</a>: Message to Labour leader & deputy leader hopefuls claiming they've got 'the experience' to do PMQs: you do not. Experience is no help.</span></font></p><p><span lang=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>Dan Hodges - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155362b&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Labour's past is killing its future</a></p><p>Janet Daley - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155362c&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">This EU pantomime is not what the voters asked for</a></p><p>Boris Johnson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155362d&WT.mc_id=e_DM24622&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_15&utm_campaign=DM24622" target="_blank">Male and female are different: hardly earth-shattering news</a></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p><span lang=""><strong><em>From elsewhere</em></strong></span></p><p><span lang="">Matthew D'Ancona - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155362e" target="_blank">David Cameron is already plotting for 2020 – and his own legacy</a></span></p><p><span lang="">Chris Deerin - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,155362f" target="_blank">Why I'll be voting to stay in the comic, wasteful, inefficient mess known as the EU </a></span></p><p><span lang="">Owen Paterson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=hab21975,155291f,1553630" target="_blank">How Neil Young, Greenpeace work to starve the world's poor </a></span></p><p><span lang=""></span></p><p><span lang=""><strong>AGENDA</strong></span></p><p>800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta</p><p>Deadline for Labour leadership hopefuls to gain support of at least 35 MPs</p><p>G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies meeting commences in Bodrum, Turkey</p><p>12.30 Outgoing Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy gives farewell speech at Policy Exchange </p><p>19.00 Tim Farron MP and Norman Lamb MP take party in Liberal Democrat leadership hustings in London</p><p><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15">20:30</a>: BBC One's 'Panorama' investigates child sex abuse scandal in Rotherham</p><p>Jeb Bush is due to formally declare his candidacy for the US Presidency</p><p>Conservative MP John Redwood turns 64 today</p><p><span lang=""><strong>TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</strong></span></p><p><span lang="">HOUSE OF COMMONS</span></p><p><span lang="">14.30 Education Questions.</span></p><p><span lang="">Scotland Bill - Committee stage.</span></p><p><span lang="">A short debate on the Navitus Bay Wind Farm.</span></p><p><span lang=""><strong>HOUSE OF LORDS</strong></span></p><p><span lang="">1430: </span><span lang="">Questions on decarbonising the electricity supply system in the UK, funding public service broadcasting, implementing a whole school approach to nutrition and the health and </span></p><p><span lang="">wellbeing of children, and calculating the block grant to Scotland in light of the new powers of the Scottish Parliament</span></p><p><span lang="">A debate on trade and investment.</span></p><p><span lang="">A short debate on the law governing elections in the UK.</span></p></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1301281983880594643.post-5630798557019645862015-06-08T09:24:00.001+01:002015-06-08T09:24:15.523+01:00Walk the line.. <br><table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td height="12" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p>David Cameron has laid down the law on Europe, telling his cabinet that <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6c2&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">any minister who wants to campaign to leave the European Union</a> in his promised referendum will have to resign to do so. </p><p>"<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6c3&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">Cabinet told: Vote for Europe or resign</a>" is our splash, while other papers - including the Express, Guardian, FT and Times - report the Prime Minister's message on their front pages. "If you want to be part of the Government, you have to take the view that we are engaged in an exercise of renegotiation, to have a referendum, and that will lead to a successful outcome," Cameron told reporters at the G7 summit in Germany. </p><p>Ministers have so far towed the line, expecting their man to renegotiate a better deal for Britain with fellow EU leaders. If they decide to campaign to leave the European Union, the argument goes, that is tantamount to saying the Prime Minister hasn't negotiated a good enough package. This is a somewhat risky move because he knows there are Cabinet ministers who are, at very least, open to voting to leave. Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling are both true sceptics, while Business Secretary Sajid Javid has said he's not <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6c4&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">"afraid" of leaving</a>. Some may wonder, could he use a dramatic departure to launch a leadership campaign? Chris Hope has pointed to six <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6c5&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">cabinet ministers who could resign over the issue</a>. </p><p>Cameron's position stands in marked contrast to Harold Wilson, the last Prime Minister to give Britain a vote on Europe. During the 1975 referendum, the then Labour premier gave his cabinet free rein to campaign to leave, leading to the likes of Tony Benn, Michael Foot and Barbara Castle being <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6c6" target="_blank">on the same side as Enoch Powell</a>.</p><p>Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 committee, previously called for <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6c7" target="_blank">"collective responsibility" to be suspended</a>, so that any cabinet minister can campaign freely to leave the EU and keep their job. Refusing to do so, he said, risked creating the appearance of a "great rancorous split" in the party. Any ministers who do resign over the issue will find easy allies on the backbenches, with more than <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6c8&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">50 Tory MPs said to be backing the nascent "out" campaign</a>. Cameron is betting that when push comes to shove, his cabinet and his party will stay loyal to him, the great majority-winner. </p><p>The Prime Minister is also betting he can get a very good deal in Europe. However, the real risk is that he's looking like a man who has already decided to stay, and that could undermine his negotiating position. Surely he only gets what he wants if Angela and the rest think he's serous about leaving? Mr Cameron is rarely accused of lacking self-confidence, but this is a bold assumption indeed.</p><p><br> <br></p></font></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03333/ADFAMS20150608_3333054k.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">AUDACITY OF NOPE</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron has refused to meet demands by Barack Obama that Britain commits to spending 2 per cent of its national income on defence for the next five years, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6c9&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">Peter Dominiczak r</a>eports. The Prime Minister used a meeting with the American President at the G7 summit in Germany to make clear that no decisions will be taken on Britain's funding of the Armed Forces ahead of the spending review in the Autumn.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He also is <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6ca&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">understood to be considering </a>using millions of pounds of British foreign aid spending to prevent migrants fleeing Africa for a better life in Europe. Meanwhile, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6cb&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has indicated </a>that the UK could site American new nuclear missiles on British soil amid heightened tensions with Russia.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">KENDALL'S BLUE LABOUR</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Liz Kendall, a leading contender for the Labour leadership, has suggested she supported removing tax credits to migrant workers from other European Union countries and refused to condemn billions of pounds of spending cuts unveiled by George Osborne. Kendall said the policy of removing tax credits to migrant workers is "definitely something we should look at" but called for a wider debate on Britain's future in the EU, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6cc&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">Chris Hope reports</a>. Kendall also suggested she could support the Chancellor's plans to raise £5billion through a combination of selling a 30 per cent stake in Royal Mail and cutting spending. </span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Responding to suggestions from leadership rival Yvette Cooper that she had "swallowed the Tory manifesto" - she added: ""The only thing I've swallowed is the sheer scale of defeat that we faced at the election and the huge changes we need to win again." However, others disagree. "They are all now parroting the Tory manifesto and babbling about "aspiration"," <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6cd&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">wrote Boris Johnson in his latest Telegraph column</a>.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">NOT RETIRING FROM A FIGHT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron has threatened a Government crackdown on pension providers that are failing to offer all of the freedoms promised by the Conservatives ahead of the general election, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6ce&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">Peter Dominiczak reports</a>. The Prime Minister pledged to keep a "careful eye" on the companies after<a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6cf&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">The Telegraph disclosed that most over-55s </a>were unlikely to be able to access their retirement funds as easily and cheaply as George Osborne, the Chancellor, had promised. Cameron said that the pensions providers must not use the reforms simply to find "a new way of charging people". </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">SWEET DEFEAT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Harriet Harman, Labour's acting leader, <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d0" target="_blank">has told the Independent </a>that even people who supported Labour at last month's election were privately relieved afterwards that the party did not win power. She revealed there were widespread doubts about the party's leadership, as the party had the "wrong message". "People tend to like a leader they feel is economically competent," she added.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">BETTER CALL SOL</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sol Campbell today officially throws his hat in the ring for the race to be London Mayor – telling the <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d1" target="_blank">Sun's Steve Hawkes</a>: "I'm in it to win it." The former Arsenal and Spurs star has decided to try and become the Tory candidate to succeed Boris Johnson in 2016.</span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He will likely face competition from Zac Goldsmith, who will "probably" stand for London mayor, according to <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d2" target="_blank">Politics.co.uk's Adam Bienkov</a>, and could announce his candidacy within weeks.</span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">IPSURD</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Cameron has made a final plea to Parliament's independent pay body to shelve plans to give MPs a 10 per cent salary increase. The Prime Minister called on Ipsa to "think again" over its bid to increase MPs' pay by £7,000 to £74,000. <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d3&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">Here is the story</a>. </span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">DON'T WALK OUT, COOKOUT</font></strong></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lorry drivers should light barbecues at motorway 'sit-ins' to protest against the Government's cuts' plans, according to a leader of one of Britain's biggest unions. Steve Turner, an assistant general secretary of the Unite union, urged people to be "imaginative about how they take their argument against austerity and cuts". <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d4&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">Here are more details</a>.</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><strong></strong><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="460" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03331/060615-MATT-web_3331927a.jpg" style="outline: none;"></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br><br></span></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">TOO MANY TWEETS...</font></strong></p><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d5" target="_blank">@DPJHodges:</a><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang=""> <span lang=""><span lang="">Can people please stop saying "no-one knew what Labour was for". They did. They just didn't like it.<br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">COMMENT</font></strong></p><p><em><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">From The Telegraph</font></strong></em></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Boris Johnson - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d6&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">David Cameron must drive on with EU reform</a> </span></font></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Charles Moore - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d7&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank">The big question for the Euro referendum</a><br><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d8&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank"></a></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d8&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank"></a></span></font><p><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d8&WT.mc_id=e_DM23276&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23276" target="_blank"><strong><em></em></strong></a><strong><em>From elsewhere</em></strong></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matthew D'Ancona - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6d9" target="_blank">It's high noon for Britain over Europe. Make no assumptions</a></span></font></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chris Deerin - <a href="http://t.email3.telegraph.co.uk/r/?id=ha425845,146c6ba,146c6da" target="_blank">It may terrify Old Etonians, but at last a Scottish burr is a badge of pride</a><span lang=""></span></span></font></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">AGENDA</font></strong></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Prime Minister David Cameron in Germany for final day at G7 summit</font></span></p><p><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Tim Farron MP speaks at the National Liberal Club on his vision for the future of liberalism (<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://10" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="10">7:00pm</a>)</font></span></p><p><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang=""><span lang=""></span></span><span lang="">Nicola Sturgeon visits U.S. this week with 'Daily Show' appearance 'possible' </span></span></font></p><p></p><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><p><span lang=""></span><strong>TODAY IN PARLIAMENT</strong></p><span lang=""><p><strong>HOUSE OF COMMONS</strong></p><span lang=""><p><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://11" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="11">14:30pm</a>: Defence questions (topicals <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12">at 15:15pm</a>)</p><p>Scotland Bill: Second Reading<br>Presentation of public petition: Protection of green spaces at Capstone Valley and areas around Ottherham Quay Lane (Gillingham and Rainham) (Rehman Chishti, Con, Gillingham and Rainham)<br>Adjournment debate: Inward investment in Southend (Sir David Amess, Con, Southend West)</p><p></p></span><p><strong>HOUSE OF LORDS</strong></p><span lang=""><p><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">14:30pm</a>: Oral questions, to ask the Government:<br>- Lord Wigley (Plaid) to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they regard the implementation of the recommendations of the Smith Commission as an adequate response to the outcome of the general election in Scotland.<br>- Lord Haskel (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government what action they will take to increase productivity as compared to that forecast in Table 5b of the Bank of England May inflation report.<br>- Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab) to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the current deficit position of NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts on the ability of the National Health Service to move to seven-day working.<br>- Lord Naseby (Con) to ask Her Majesty's Government what is the anticipated timescale of the new deal for Greater Manchester.<br>Motions to appoint committee members<br><br>Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill: Second Reading</p></span></span></font></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Polittiscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10630044797615950987noreply@blogger.com