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"I do find her proposals prejudicial," says Labour MP @RachaelMaskell after the changes to the settlement rules
The Home Secretary says she disagrees
"No decisions have been made yet" on Linton-on-Ouse proposed asylum site says the Home Secretary
It comes after @AlecShelbrooke asked Shabana Mahmood to visit the site and said he hasn't had a response to a letter he wrote to the government weeks ago
New: Reform UK call for government to resolve mineworkers pension scheme and hand over funds before Christmas
In the budget, John Healey announced future surpluses would go to scheme members, but said work was still ongoing on releasing undistributed surplus funds in the scheme
🚨MINEWORKERS PENSION SCHEME
Today, Reform UK calls on the Government to finally settle the mine workers pension scheme (MPS) and pay its members before Christmas; if it fails to do so, Reform UK commits to doing so within 100 days of entering Government.
To the dismay of many, the Chancellor failed to set a clear and unambiguous timetable for resolving the MPS in the Autumn Budget. The Prime Minister was also unable to provide the clarity miners deserve when subsequently questioned.
Enough is enough. Miners and their families have waited too long. Tragically, 18 ex-miners die every day without the fair resolution of this matter they deserve.
The members must now be paid by Christmas.
If that does not happen, a Reform UK government will end surplus sharing and the standstill mechanism and immediately transfer the undistributed surplus funds (including the Guarantor’s Fund) to MPS members.
No more messing around. Miners can be assured that they will get the resolution they have been denied until now under a Reform UK Government.
Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP
Reform UK Shadow Chancellor
Lee Anderson MP
Reform UK Chairman
New: Full budget document confirms £30 million to develop locallly led approaches to AI, starting with West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and York and North Yorkshire
Fred Dimbleby retweeted
John Healey confirms that mayors will have access to £1.5bn of loans from the Government, which he says will help support the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
Oliver Coppard is to sign a deal to buy the airport’s land from Peel, although the cost has not been revealed.
Chancellor confirms plans for fiscal devolution - tourist tax, business rates and a share of income tax eventually for mayors
The Deputy Speaker rebukes @charliedewhirst the MP for Bridlington and The Wolds
Says he promised her and his daughter he would behave during the budget speech
She says "he has let himself down and his daughter"
Breaking: "Every penny of mineworker's pension surplus will go to miners" John Healey confirms
Many northern MPs had been pushing for that, among them @steveyemm
After ten or so minutes of the budget, Nancy Pelosi seems to have had enough and has left the gallery
"Those predictions of gloom were about as accurate as predictions of who would be the chancellor"
John Healey references stories before his appointment that the job was going to Ed Miliband/Shabana Mahmood
Fred Dimbleby retweeted
At PMQs, York Outer Labour MP Luke Charters calls for "stronger public control of our region's water"
PM Andy Burnham says: "we will bring forward a strengthened Water Bill... which will lift the bar on public ownership, alongside other reforms over the next decade"
This piece came with the enjoyable experience of finding excellent ITV archive of Denis Healey
A politician who was not afraid of the camera
Ahead of the budget, I looked back at the first Chancellor Healey and what @JohnHealey_MP can learn from him
Contributions from @NickTorfaen and @jon_trickett
Ahead of the budget, I looked back at the first Chancellor Healey and what @JohnHealey_MP can learn from him
Contributions from @NickTorfaen and @jon_trickett
I translated the BBC’s Brazil results page and inadvertently found out what Lula translates to in English
Fred Dimbleby retweeted
Excl: A second member of staff working under Reform UK mayor Luke Campbell has claimed they were suspended from their job after raising concerns about threatening and racist behaviour in the workplace
observer.co.uk/news/national…
Fred Dimbleby retweeted
Exc: Andy Burnham is “determined” to grant mayors the authority to overrule local councils and introduce tourist taxes across their regions, The Times understands.
Under current plans, the levy can be blocked if 2/3 of councils in a region agree to veto it
Regional news still a real force on both ITV and BBC
The most watched shows on both BBC1 & ITV1 Tuesday were regional news, 3.4m viewers for BBC version at 6.30pm & 2.3m for ITV1 at 6pm. Sandwiched in between them in the overall ‘biggest audience of the day’ stakes, Bake Off on Channel 4, 3.3m. Ratings data courtesy of @Digital_i_