Anneliese Dodds, the shadow women and equalities minister, has described a 'morning of relief' for people in Mid Bedfordshire after the resignation of Nadine Dorries.
Sadiq Khan has today accused the government of"weaponising air pollution" ahead of a controversial expansion of London's ultra-low emission zone.
A £160m scheme run by Transport for London enables residents, small businesses, sole traders and charities scrapping non-compliant cars to claim grants.In response, the government stressed that transport and air quality decisions are"devolved to London". Asked about this attack, Ms Dodds said:"She is right to ask what Rishi Sunak stands for and what he's achieved."
Whole-life prison sentences will become the"default" punishment for"sexual or sadistic" murders, the prime minister has said. Rishi Sunak faces another potentially damaging by-election after Nadine Dorries finally handed in her resignation 11 weeks after vowing to go. This will enable the writ to be moved when parliament returns on 4 September for a by-election in Ms Dorries' Mid Bedfordshire constituency.
"The Conservatives recently lost two very big by-elections - one to Labour and one to the Lib Dems - they don't want another big loss, they have a huge majority [in Mid Bedfordshire]. "People there are turning away from the Conservative Party, they're unhappy with the way they've been treated, the way they've been taken for granted, for generations in some cases."
Despite briefly serving in cabinet in the relatively junior position of culture secretary under her not-so-secret crush Boris Johnson, she's hardly one of the big beasts of the party or a substantial political figure whose resignation will send shock waves through her party. In her resignation letter attacking Mr Sunak she refers to her time in politics before she became MP for Mid Bedfordshire in 2005. She was a special adviser to the unworldly Oliver Letwin. Talk about the odd couple: the working class ex-nurse from Liverpool and the old Etonian toff.
Really? She hasn't spoken in the Commons for more than a year and has only voted six times this year. Constituents claim they haven’t seen her"in years". And her description of a"zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened” and “the government is adrift" is pretty spot on. Her behaviour of the past few months has almost certainly cost the Tories another safe seat in the by-election that she now says she's ready to trigger. And her book on Mr Johnson is timed to cause Mr Sunak and the party high command maximum damage at the Conservative Party conference.
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