Labour calls on chancellor to announce an emergency budget
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Labour calls on chancellor to announce an emergency budget
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy calls on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to announce an emergency budget as people "are struggling desperately" with the cost-of-living crisis and new policies such as a windfall tax need to be implemented.
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Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has described Sir Keir Starmer as "hypocritical" after it was found the Labour leader breached the MP's code of conduct eight times by failing to declare donations on time. Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour frontbencher Jonathan Ashworth has leapt to Sir Keir Starmer's defence, after the party leader was found to have breached the MP's code of conduct by failing to register eight separate interests on time.
The shadow work and pensions secretary said: "The commissioner herself has said these were minor or inadvertent … it was not lying about something or trying to cover something up - that's what Boris Johnson did." Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour's Jonathan Ashworth has accused the Conservative leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss of "fantasy island promises" at a time when the cost-of-living crisis means Brits face a winter of "starvation or freezing".
The shadow work and pensions secretary said: "They do not have any idea, any clue, about how devastating this winter is going to be for families and pensioners." Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour shadow cabinet minister Kerry McCarthy has described Liz Truss' comments about Nicola Sturgeon as "childish". The Conservative leadership hopeful branded the Scottish first minister an "attention seeker" who is best ignored, during a hustings on Monday evening. Ms McCarthy said: "If Liz Truss aspires to be the prime minister of the United Kingdom, she needs to have a grown-up relationship with Nicola Sturgeon." The Labour MP for Bristol East described the foreign secretary's comments as "red meat to the Tory faithful". Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, and former prime minister David Cameron are among the latest UK figures who have been added.. Sky News
Sir Keir Starmer says it was "important and moving" for him to visit the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as it "forces you to think about all the murdered Jews in Europe".
The Labour leader and Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy have faced criticism for filming themselves at the memorial to which showcased their trip to Germany, Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said of the current Tory leadership contest that the Conservative Party are "fighting like cats in a bag". He and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy were in Berlin on Thursday for talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy calls on the Prime Minister to step down following by-election losses in Wakefield and Tiverton.
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Conservative MP Oliver Dowden says Liz Truss' promise to reduce National Insurance is "not up to the job", given the "scale of the energy hikes likely to come". Mr Dowden says Rishi Sunak should be "judged by his record", having "saved tens of millions of jobs", after introducing the furlough scheme during the Covid pandemic.
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are coming under growing pressure to explain how they would help British families with the cost of living crisis this autumn. Sky News
Former security minister Damian Hinds, who is supporting Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party’s leadership contest says the former chancellor will have "all options on the table” to do more to help households amid the worsening cost-of-living crisis. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Rishi Sunak has vowed to phase out university degrees that do not improve students' "earning potential", under plans to reform education if he became the UK's.. Sky News
Flooding led to multiple road closures in north London on Monday morning, after a 36-inch water main burst near Holloway. Emergency services were called to the scene in Islington at just after 7am, with flood water up to four feet deep and two sinkholes wreaking havoc for locals and drivers near the scene.
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While this week’s weather won’t beat July’s record-breaker, Britain is bracing for another “prolonged period” of dry and hot weather. Report by Burnsla. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
More than 600 children have undergone "intrusive and traumatising" strip searches by the Metropolitan Police between 2018 and 2020, figures show. Children's Commissioner for England, Rachel de Souza, says the data obtained from Scotland Yard is "concerning", particularly given that almost a quarter of these strip searches took place without an "appropriate adult" confirmed to have been present.
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A child is confirmed to have died after a house collapsed on Monday morning in Thornton Heath, South London. Deputy Assistant Commissioner at London Fire Brigade Richard Welch says three people were taken to hospital with injuries and another was treated at the scene. Residents described hearing a loud explosion before seeing one house destroyed and neighbouring homes damaged. The cause is currently unknown.
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Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called on the government to "act now" on the cost-of-living crisis. He fears that by waiting until a new prime minister is chosen, it will be "too late" and that people will be "experiencing great hardship and an unbearable burden of unpayable bills" in October.
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Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting calls for an emergency budget to deal with rising energy costs and to bring inflation under control and says that Labour will focus on fixing the cost-of-living..
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