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The UK government has approved the controversial Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea, a widely expected move that will nonetheless dismay environmental campaigners and a number of Labour MPs. Miatta Fahnbulleh is leaning towards rejecting the giant Rosebank oilfield, the Guardian understands, in what…
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Activists from Fossil Free London staged a protest outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero today. They were protesting about the Jackdaw decision announced today, and also urging the government not to approve the Rosebank oil field, where the decision is pending. Robin Wells, direct…
The Department for Education has announced that Simon Ridley will be its new permanent secretary. Ridley will move from the Home Office, where he has been second permanent secretary. He will replace Susan Acland-Hood, who is taking a new job outside government. Acland-Hood became head of the DfE in…
NEU says robust action on antisemitism in schools needed, but rejects reports call for teacher impartiality rules to be tightened
Richard Adams is the Guardian’s education editor. The review of antisemitism in England’s schools and colleges by Sir David Bell has now been published, with the Department for Education saying it will adopt its recommendations including antisemitism training for education leaders, strengthened saf…
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Karl Turner MP has Labour whip restored after apologising for 'overly robust' and 'unaceptable' conduct towards colleagues
Karl Turner has had the Labour whip restored after apologising for what he describes as an “overly robust” and “unacceptable” approach towards colleagues. He has admitted that his behaviour caused offence. He has issued this statement and says he will not be making any further comment. Turner had t…
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Burnham backs mandatory suicide prevention training for social workers after parent-carer Matilda Davis’s death
Andy Burnham has backed mandatory suicide prevention training for social workers after the “devastating” death of Matilda Davis, a parent-carer who killed herself minutes after meeting professionals, Josh Halliday reports.
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Reform UK claims undercover racism exposé has left some of its members 'psychologically damaged' as it reports ITV to police
Reform UK says it has reported “multiple” ITV journalists, and the company’s board of directors, to the police on the grounds that their undercover reporters working on the exposé of racism in the party broke the law. The party says it will also be suing them for damages. Zia Yusuf, the party’s hom…
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Reform says it has reported ITV to the police over undercover investigation
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Reform reports ITV and journalists to police over undercover racism sting
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Here is video from PMQs of Andy Burnham and Kemi Badenoch talking about the Jackdaw decision.
No 10 plays down Fahnbulleh's lack of support for home secretary's original ILR proposals
At the No 10 post-PMQs lobby briefing, Downing Street rejected suggestions that Miatta Fahnbulleh was undermining Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, with her comments about indefinite leave to remain (ILR) this morning. (See 10.44am and 11.34am.) A spokesperson said that Mahmood was consulting on…
The Green MP Siân Berry has welcomed Miatta Fahnbulleh’s decision not to endorse the home secretary’s plan to make migrant workers wait much longer for indefinite leave to remain. (See 10.44am.) But she urged Fahnbulleh to go further, and to also speak out about separate plans in the immigration an…
Lindsay Hoyle accuses Fahnbulleh of 'immense discourtesy' to MPs after she misses Commons Jackdaw statement
In the Commons, Michael Shanks, the energy minister, is making a statement about the Jackdaw decision. He is doing it because his boss, Miatta Fahnbulleh, is in Aberdeen. Before he started, Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, said it was an “immense discourtesy” to the Commons that Fahnbulleh was not there…
Fahnbulleh leaning towards rejecting Rosebank oilfield
Miatta Fahnbulleh is leaning towards rejecting the giant Rosebank oilfield, the Guardian understands, in what would be a blow for the North Sea energy industry and a major victory for climate campaigners. Kiran Stacey has the story.
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Donald Trump welcomes Jackdaw announcement
Judging by the latest post on Truth Social, it looks as thought the Jackdaw announcement may have made Fox News in the US this morning. This is from Donald Trump.
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PMQs - snap verdict
That felt like quite a routine PMQs, but it was one that went quite well for Andy Burnham. It was not so much that he won; it was more that he emerged completely unscathed because none of Kemi Badenoch’s attack lines landed. It is always hard for an opposition leader to criticise a decision they ag…
David Davis (Con) asks if the PM would speak to the defence secretary to stop British agencies acting with “credulous complicity with our enemies trying to use lawfare against our soldiers”. He was referring in particular to a Sunday Times report at the weekend about how SAS soldiers were hounded o…
Burnham says Reform UK has not done enough in response to ITV News racism exposé about 'politics of poison' in party
Zubir Ahmed (Lab) asked Burnham to condemn the revelations in the ITV News exposé of racism in Reform UK. Burnham said all parties in the Commons should take a stand against racism. And he paid tribute in particular to migrant care workers. He said MPs should “root out the politics of poison which…
Burnham backs call for mayor of Wessex, and says he wants full devolution for south-west of England
Edward Morello, the Lib Dem MP for West Dorset, asked Burnham if he would commit to having a mayor of Wessex by 2028. Burnham said he would. He said he was “always happy to create more mayors”. He said he would like to see full devolution for the south-west of England. He says Cornish MPs were in N…
James Cleverly (Con) said Burnham managed to increase police numbers when he was mayor of Manchester. But Sadiq Khan has not done that in London, he said. What is it that he was able to get right and that I was able to get right [when Cleverly was home secretary] but Sadiq Khan, catastrophically, h…
Jerome Mayhew (Con) asked a follow up to the question he asked last week. He asked if Burnham had a meeting scheduled with Khaldoon Al Mubarak, the Manchester City chair, scheduled in September. Burnham said he had nothing to add to the statement he had already made.
Burnham says government will consider 'further measures' Royal Mail does not improve its 'unacceptable' service
Imogen Walker (Lab) said her constituents were suffering serious problems because Royal Mail delivery services were so bad. Burnham replied: Royal Mail’s service has been unacceptable for far too long. They have been asked in to see ministers on a regular basis. Ofcom is looking at the situation as…
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Ellie Chowns, the parliamentary leader of the Greens, asked why Burnham was “pouring more fuel on the fire of climate breakdown” by approving Jackdaw. Why did he not accept expert evidence saying fossil fuels should stay in the ground? Burnham said the UK still needs gas. He went on: There’s a big…
Burnham ducks Lib Dem question about whether Elon Musk should have satellite licences restricted after 'beyond the pale' help for Putin
Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, asked Burnham if he was going to wait until after the election until considering the case for joining the EU single market. Burnham said at the UK-EU summit next month he would try to get a better deal covering food, energy and immigration. He went on: If this house wa…
Burnham defends Palestine Action ban, saying decision taken after 'rigorous and evidence-based process'
Claire Hanna (SDLP) asks about Sally Rooney’s books not being on sale in the UK, and invites Burnham to review the Palestine Action ban. Burnham says: When it comes to the prescription of Palestine Action, it followed a rigorous and evidence-based process that came before this house, endorsed by Pa…
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Badenoch asks if Burnham will follow the Andy Haldane plan. Burnham says “there are signs of growing strength in the British economy”. And he taunts the Tories over the mini budget.
Badenoch says Burnham is not going to cut welfare spending. Under his plans, it will go up. She asks if he accepts his failure to cut borrowing is pushing up inflation. Burnham again defends his social care policy. And, on welfare, he says he does not want to see people in their 20s out of work. On…
Burnham defends taking action on 'small things', like train noise, but says he's taking 'big decisions' too
Badenoch says she has read the IMF report and it has downgrades the UK’s growth forecast. We are spending more on interest payments than we do on schools, the army and the police combined. Meanwhile, the prime minister is worrying about loud music on trains. This is not serious. She asks Burnham if…
Badenoch says the national debt has reached £3trn. And she raises the criticism of his economic policies from Andy Haldane in the FT yesterday. What is the PM doing to get borrowing down? Burnham says Badenoch is showing why the Tories “got those decisions wrong”. Because she didn’t and they didn’t…
Badenoch asks Burnham to accept that every barrel of oil from the North Sea is one that we don’t need to buy from Putin. Burnham says again she is asking him “to take further decisions that she, messed up when she was in, in government”. He says these are quasi-judicial decisions.
