Penny Mordaunt and Angela Rayner to take part in BBC’s Friday election debate
Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer, who are going head-to-head in a debate on Tuesday, will not attend. Source link
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Michael Gove promises end to no-fault evictions by next general election
Mr Gove has also warned that young people shut out of the UK’s housing market could turn to authoritarianism, telling The Sunday Times: “If people think that markets are rigged and a democracy isn’t listening to them, then you get — and this is the worrying thing to me — an increasing number of young people saying, ‘I don’t believe in democracy, I don’t believe in markets.’” Source link
Lib Dems in meltdown over GB News attacks on Sir Ed Davey as they demand probe | Politics | News
Lee Anderson has brutally slapped down the Liberal Democrats after they announced they are writing to Ofcom in an attempt to shut down GB News presenters criticising Sir Ed Davey’s failure to grasp the Post Office scandal. In a letter to the TV regulator this morning, deputy leader Daisy Cooper blasted the channel’s attacks on Sir Ed, singling out Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lee Anderson for “bias” and “misleading” viewers over the scandal. GB News has been hot on the tails of Sir Ed, after his refusal to back postmasters over the Post Office while serving as postal minister from 2010-12 sparked outrage among the public. The Lib Dem leader is now facing multiple calls to both resign as leader of his party and hand his knighthood back. Ms Cooper’s letter says: “British democracy deserves better than bias, misleading and at times, frankly absurd news reporting of important matters.” She claimed to have been “shocked” by Tory MPs on the channel, such as Sir Jacob, “taking aim at political leaders from other parties about …
Lib Dems ask Ofcom to investigate GB News over Ed Davey criticism
Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images” fifu-data-src=”https://i3.wp.com/www.skepticsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1d6adab4937fc961493c3321fdd0cb54.jpeg?ssl=1″ data-src=”https://i3.wp.com/www.skepticsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1d6adab4937fc961493c3321fdd0cb54.jpeg?ssl=1″/> Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images The Liberal Democrats have called for Ofcom to investigate GB News over alleged impartiality breaches after the channel featured Nigel Farage and Conservative MPs criticising Ed Davey and other opposition politicians about their role in the Post Office IT scandal. The party has written to the head of the broadcast regulator, Melanie Dawes, to argue GB News’s coverage failed to highlight the role of Conservative politicians in the long-running saga. The letter from Daisy Cooper, the party’s deputy leader, raised particular concern about a segment on the channel on Tuesday evening in which Farage made a series of allegations connected to Davey, who was the business minister with responsibility for the Post Office from 2010 to 2012. “I was appalled to watch Nigel Farage, the chairman of Reform, launch a fictitious monologue about leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, with a number of factual inaccuracies,” Cooper wrote. “The Liberal Democrats were offered no right of reply. This therefore breaches both the accuracy and impartiality …
Calls for pensions minister to be suspended while office expenses reviewed
Since his election in 2010, Mr Maynard — who was made a minister in the Department for Work and Pensions in November by Mr Sunak — has spent £106,000 on printing and related costs, a bill that is higher than any Tory MP on record, according to analysis by the newspaper. Source link