And the fact that she's an MP in Central London, same as Starmer, will be a problem.
I hope Phillipson (I finally spelt her name right) wins. If necessary, appoint someone else to a party liaison role.
The Labour MP Clive Lewis said: “It’s absurd that public money is being used to subsidise SUV-sized electric cars. They may be cleaner than petrol, but they’re still oversized, wasteful and dangerous. Heavier SUVs mean more potholes, more tyre pollution, and more energy consumption, hardly a green transition. Cities like Paris are moving to penalise SUVs with higher parking charges. Here in Britain, we’re doing the opposite: handing them subsidies.”He may have a point about these subsidies, but the logic will be, I presume, that the people who are availing themselves of them would be buying cars that are the same size, except petrol.
Lewis added that the issue was indicative of a wider inconsistency in Labour’s climate policy: “One day it’s warm homes investment, the next it’s Heathrow expansion; talk of climate leadership, while bankrolling more roads and bigger cars. If Labour is serious about climate action and public health, it should back smaller, lighter EVs and invest in universal, public transport – not pour taxpayers’ cash into supersized status symbols.”
Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell set for two-horse race to be Labour deputyReally? I'd have thought Thornberry would get more nominations than Powell. I thought there was a new group that wanted some distance from the leadership forming. That's surely a decent forum to agree on a candidate. Are they backing Powell?
Education secretary and Manchester MP look destined for face-off as three other candidates struggle for MP nominations
Rachel Reeves tells private equity bosses she plans to shut down more regulatorsStory here is reasonably fair, puts it in the context of Reeves trying to encourage investment. One bit was interesting, I thought.
Chancellor stopped short of saying which regulators were in government’s crosshairs
Reeves said the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), now led by former City minister, Emma Reynolds, after last week’s cabinet reshuffle, was focused on how to “facilitate growth rather than find reasons to say no to development, whether that is [though] Natural England, or the Environment Agency”. The chancellor said the department was now “moving in the right direction”.Hadn't thought about the Reynolds appointment like this. Astonishingly, it looks like some houses might get built near me, but it's taken forever, despite it being a pretty humdrum field. There's definitely scope for making this easier, and getting more payments into a fund that can do major stuff that's never had funding before. White storks are being reintroduce locally. Got to be more things like that could be done.
- By RedSparrows