Liz Truss criticised by former Tory chief whip for claiming public sector pay pledge was misrepresented
Former Conservative MP Mark Harper, a supporter of Rishi Sunak, said Liz Truss should “stop blaming journalists” after a Tory leadership spokesman said there had been “deliberate misreporting of our campaign”. See the article : EDITORIAL: The danger of treating politics like a sport.
Stop blaming journalists – reporting what a press release says is not “deliberate misrepresentation”
So this u-turn wiped out £8.8bn in savings. Now where will they come from?
A zero-sum economic policy is not very conservative. Mrs Thatcher will be very happy https://t.co/MPMFRUrZJP
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Summary
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A group of 10 Scottish Tory MPs and MSPs have announced their support for Rishi Sunak, a day after nine Tory MSPs said they would back his rival, Liz Truss, for the party leadership. .
Backers of Sunak’s leadership bid include former Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw, as well as MPs John Lamont and Andrew Bowie. MSPs Maurice Golden, Jeremy Balfour, Miles Briggs, Dean Lockhart, Donald Cameron, Alexander Stewart and Liz Smith also supported the former prime minister.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the group played down Sunak’s choice, which they say will end the deal between the SNP and Labor that would secure a second independence referendum.
Both Keir Starmer and Scottish Labor leader Anas Sarwar have insisted they will not form a coalition or deal with the SNP after the next general election.
The Tories from Scotland said:
A Labour-SNP deal would put the future of the UK at risk and give the media permission to divide Scotland again with a second independence referendum.
We cannot allow that to happen, and the polls consistently show that Rishi is the most likely candidate to win the next general election and stop any surprise deal.
They went on to say that Sunak had a plan to “oust the SNP government from office”.
The article in the Telegraph came out after nine Tory MSPs announced their support for Truss in the Times.
Truss repeats claim her public sector pay plan was ‘misrepresented’
After she was forced to scrap a controversial plan to cut public service pay outside London, Liz Truss has now said people are “unnecessarily worried” about her plans for local pay boards. Read also : UCLA Fielding School project shows health effects of extreme heat across California at community level | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health.
I am afraid that my policy in this matter has been misconstrued. I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses.
But what I want to make clear is that I will no longer continue with regional pay boards, that is no longer my policy.
Liz Truss has said her plan to cut public sector wages has been ‘misunderstood’ but she will not go ahead with boards’ plans to pay workers in the lower-income areas less than their counterparts in the capital. and southeast t.co/w3KCeciJ5m pic.twitter.com/aiagcU35QI
I am completely honest, I am concerned that people were worried, worried unnecessarily about my policies and therefore I am clear that the local tax boards will not continue.
As we said earlier, the Sunak camp has argued that the move is not a mistake, pointing out that Truss had called for it when he was chief secretary of the Treasury in 2018.
Former health secretary Matt Hancock has described Liz Truss’ plan to cut pay for civil servants or civil servants as a “bad idea”.
Hancock, who is backing Rishi Sunak’s leadership bid, said cutting public sector wages for workers outside London was “a cut LESS than a raise”.
Cutting the public wage outside of London is a bad idea
In places like Suffolk, it’s hard enough to hire nurses, teachers & police without reducing their pay compared to London.
This is going DOWN not going up.
We need to support public servants – including civil servants – who work hard for us all.
What if this kind of fundamental mistake was made during the election campaign? 2017 all over again.
Misjudgment, lack of facts & amp; a gift to the Worker.
I hope we see a complete u-turn and this plan is abandoned.
Ben Houchen, the Conservative mayor of Tees Valley who previously said he had “no say” in Liz Truss’s plan to cut social security benefits in the country’s less affluent areas, described the Tory leadership’s hopeful proposal as and “very bad”.
Houchen, who is backing Rishi Sunak in the leadership contest, told BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme:
It’s a big mistake and I’m glad you realized it and went back and decided this won’t happen again.
Is it a moment – I’m not entirely sure, it could be – we can look back in four or five weeks and this could be Liz’s ‘dementia tax’ moment. It can be very simple, but it should be seen.
Jeremy Corbyn has urged the West to stop arming Ukraine, and said he has been criticized for being naive over his stance on Palestine, in a TV interview that may highlight Keir Starmer’s determination not to bring him back to the Labor party.
Crossing hands will not bring a solution, it will prolong and exacerbate this war. We may be years and years of war in Ukraine.
Corbyn gave an interview to Al Mayadeen, a Beirut-based TV station that has carried a pro-Russian narrative since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
Read the full article by my colleague, Heather Stewart:
Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect, has responded to Liz Truss’s response to her high-profile plan to introduce regional pay boards for public sector workers.
If Liz Truss believes that public sector workers are a public institution, she needs to stop the attack dogs on her side and start working with unions and others to give the public the support and services we need. in need.
The British public is in a fragile state trying to cope with the constant waves of rising prices and falling wages.
It is time for ministers to put national interests ahead of their leadership ambitions.
Numbers crossing the Channel to seek asylum in the UK hit a record high for the year so far on Monday, as Border Force staff braced for thousands more to arrive this summer.
The Defense Ministry said 696 had made the trip on 14 small boats on Monday. It followed 460 arrivals on Saturday and 247 on Friday, while more than 1,000 people crossed last week.
In July, 3,683 people crossed from France. This year’s total is believed to be over 17,000.
The figures came amid reports of growing concern over plans to restrict the number of boats carrying asylum seekers across the Channel.
A source told Jessica Elgot, the Guardian’s senior political reporter, that Liz Truss had previously called for the minimum wage outside the south-east.
More Labor chiefs are scoffing at Liz Truss’ now-abandoned plan to cut public sector pay outside London.
Anneliese Dodds MP wrote the following:
For the past two years Liz Truss has been applauding key workers. Now?
⚠️ They are forced to abandon the plan to reduce their salary outside the southeast.
⚠️It wants to remove people who promote diversity and inclusion in the public sector.
⚠️There is hope to destroy workers’ rights and the right to strike. https://t.co/FFEMLWCfNU
Labour’s Chief Shadow Spokesperson Emily Thornberry wrote this about Liz Truss’s U-turn on her high-profile plan to cut public sector pay outside London.
Having spent 18 months hiding Liz Truss, the idea that she doesn’t realize what she signed up for is not a good story: the freeports fiasco, the shipbuilding mistake, the list goes on. After all, this is the minister who writes the TL; DR with dead eye emojis on strategic proposal….
Liz Truss criticised by former Tory chief whip for claiming public sector pay pledge was misrepresented
Former Conservative MP Mark Harper, a supporter of Rishi Sunak, said Liz Truss should “stop blaming journalists” after a Tory leadership spokesman said there had been “deliberate misreporting of our campaign”.
Stop blaming journalists – reporting what a press release says is not “deliberate misrepresentation”
So this u-turn wiped out £8.8bn in savings. Now where will they come from?
A zero-sum economic policy is not very conservative. Mrs Thatcher will be very happy https://t.co/MPMFRUrZJP
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has accused Liz Truss of running her leadership campaign “incompetently” after Tory leadership hopefuls were forced to change plans to cut the public services outside London.
Opening a multi-billion pound scheme five weeks early and taking office must be a new record.
We cannot allow Liz Truss to run the country with the same incompetence that she is running her leadership campaign on. The British people must have their say in the general election.
Earlier today, Davey described Truss’s plan for local pay boards as “incoherent, ignorant and disappointing”.
Threatening to cut hundreds of pounds from the pay of nurses and teachers at a time of crisis in living costs is absurd, incompetent and ridiculous. Bad politics from a bad party.
Sources in Rishi Sunak’s leadership camp say Liz Truss has been calling for cuts to public benefits since 2018, following her decision to scrap the plan after outcry from Conservative MPs and the mayor of Tees Valley.
Truss has previously advocated for public sector workers outside London and the south east to be given minimum wage rises.
From my colleague Aubrey Allegretti:
After Truss U changed the regional salary boards, a source in the Sunak group said that they are still pushing for such a move in 2018 to reduce the public salary and added: “The Queen is for change.”
