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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts a PM Connect event at the Currys Repair Centre, in Coddington, Newark, Nottinghamshire, October 9, 2023
PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak is being told by Tory MPs who are even more right wing than he is that he should dump policies such as environment-friendly rules on building new houses, it was revealed today.
They also want changes to price caps on energy and for parents to be able to sue schools if they do not agree with the school’s sex education curriculum.
Mr Sunak is expected to outline his policies on November 7 in the King’s Speech, which may be the last before the next general election.
PM tells MPs he want welfare cuts and backs Nato demands for soaring military spending
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES