Sunak pledges no “short-term gimmicks” ahead of the King’s Speech this week
“The monarch will deliver the first King’s Speech in 70 years on Tuesday as Rishi Sunak pledges to “build a better future”, “strengthen our society” and “help people feel safer”. The Prime Minister insists there are no “short-term gimmicks” in his list of priorities ahead of an expected election next year. The King’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament is the first given by a male sovereign since Charles’s grandfather George VI. Mr Sunak promises policies that will deliver long-term benefits, with Conservative MPs hungry for commitments they can sell on the doorstep. Action to cut immigration, kick-start the economy, help motorists and spare families inheritance tax are among the measures MPs want.” – Sunday Express
- Gove to press ahead with banning no-fault evictions – Sunday Times
- Law that could make newspapers pay legal costs for both sides in libel and privacy cases to be scrapped – Mail on Sunday
- Police to be handed powers to burst into phone thieves’ homes without a search warrant – Sun on Sunday
- Pro-car policies and oil and gas exploration to be announced – Observer
- New national Holocaust Memorial expected – Sunday Telegraph
- Airlines to be banned from making hefty add-on charges – Mail on Sunday
- Now we can exploit our free trade opportunities from Brexit – Kemi Badenoch, Sunday Express
- “There will be a focus this week on completing the unfinished business of the 2019 manifesto, but also on hard social issues such as crime and antisocial behaviour, with a zero-tolerance approach promised” – Rob Colvile, Sunday Times
The Prime Minister wants Armistice Day commemorations protected during next week’s pro-Palestine march
“The head of the Metropolitan Police faced a political backlash last night after refusing demands to stop an anti-Israel march through London on Armistice Day. Sir Mark Rowley was warned by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that protesters might ‘desecrate’ the Cenotaph, where a parade, two-minute silence and wreath-laying ceremony will commemorate Britain’s war dead on Saturday. Mr Sunak said the timing of the march was ‘provocative and disrespectful’. Ministers and MPs also urged the Met commissioner to ban the rally, which is expected to attract up to a million people. Home Secretary Suella Braverman called it ‘entirely unacceptable to desecrate Armistice Day with a hate march.” – Mail on Sunday
Protest news:
- Twenty-nine arrests for inciting racial hatred, other racially motivated crimes, violence and assaulting a police officer – Sunday Times
- British Legion poppy sellers surrounded at Charing Cross station – Mail on Sunday
- Leaflets were handed out praising “the breakout by Hamas fighters from Gaza on October 7 and the humiliation of the Israeli military” – Sunday Express
- Tube passengers hear calls for Intifada – Sun on Sunday
- Met police adviser “led from the river to the sea” chant – Sunday Telegraph
- MPs mull extra security for Remembrance Sunday – Sun on Sunday
Other news:
The Sun on Sunday: Nothing must impede the nation’s sacred duty to honour its war dead.
“Fanatics chanting hate on the Tube, scuffles and arrests in the streets, anti- Semitic bile spewed out by marchers. Yesterday’s pro-Palestine rallies were depressingly familiar. But Islamist extremists must not be allowed to tarnish next weekend’s days of Remembrance. The anti-Israel mob have provoked national outrage by vowing to march on Armistice Day — the nation’s most solemn date. We now know a number of MPs are so worried for their own safety they are hiring extra security to protect them during the Sunday Remembrance services. It is sickening that hate-filled thugs have forced our elected representatives to take such drastic measures while simply paying respects to our war dead. Rishi Sunak must ensure police know the vital importance of protecting next weekend’s events. Nothing must impede the nation’s sacred duty to honour its war dead.” – Sun on Sunday Editorial
- Left-wing women supporting misogynist Islamist terrorists – Sarah Vine, Mail on Sunday
- Eichmann and Hamas – Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times
- This rise in anti-semitism terrifies me – Stephen Pollard, Sunday Express
- Tearing down pictures of missing hostages is a daily denial of terrorist evil – Hadley Freeman, Sunday Times
- The Jew-hating hypocrisy of protesters is the strongest case for Israel’s existence – Lauren Davidson, Sunday Telegraph
- Britain’s antisemitic moment – Anthony Julius, Sunday Times
- Germany puts Britain to shame with its zero tolerance of anti-Semitism – Zoe Strimpel, Sunday Telegraph
- This war has been the making of Sir Keir Starmer – Dan Hodges, Mail on Sunday
- Any disruption to Armistice Day would be an affront to British values – Richard Kemp, Sun on Sunday
- Remember the victims of October 7 – Sunday Times
- Free Palestinians from Hamas – Sunday Telegraph Editorial
- The protesters should allow us a day of solemnity – Mail on Sunday
Braverman wants homeless people “living on the streets as a lifestyle choice” off them to prevent an “explosion of crime”
“Suella Braverman has said she wants to put a stop to the “nuisance and distress” caused by homeless people pitching tents on public streets as she defended her controversial proposal online. The Home Secretary wrote on X on Saturday (November 4) that Britain “cannot allow” its streets to be “taken over by rows of tents” occupied by people who she said were mainly from abroad and “living on the streets as a lifestyle choice”. She said unless there was action, then British cities could see an “explosion of crime, drug taking, and squalor” which she said San Francisco and Los Angeles have witnessed.” – Sunday Express
- She visits Greece to see how it’s coping with the migrant influx – Sun on Sunday.
Dowden AI summit aftermath interview. He cites opportunities and warns of dangers.
“Ministers are embracing artificial intelligence to ease their own workload by trialling the use of AI red boxes to cut down on paperwork, according to Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister. Alex Burghart, a cabinet office minister, is stepping up as one of the first guinea pigs as the government looks into how AI can boost productivity across British workplaces. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Dowden said: “I think that [AI] will drive enormous enhancements in productivity and I also suspect it will significantly reduce inflationary pressures over the medium term as well, because you’ll just be able to produce things at lower cost.” – Sunday Times
Other news
- Conservative MPs slam Covid Inquiry – Sun on Sunday
- The battle over Johnson’s reputation – Sunday Times
- Dorries book serialisation, Part Three – Mail on Sunday
- Dorries On Cummings – Mail on Sunday
- On Hancock – Mail on Sunday
- Berry and Morton wrote Conservative MP rape claim letter to police – Mail on Sunday
- China MPs visit. Graham v Seely – Sun on Sunday
- Policy Exchange says that prosecutors have been captured by the pro-trans lobby – Sunday Telegraph
- The Bletchley Park summit was an encouraging sign, but talk of regulators and off switches was delusional – Matthew Syed, Sunday Times
Jonathan Sumption: The Covid Inquiry is a farce
“The procedure of the inquiry distorts the exercise by creating a built-in bias in favour of lockdowns and other aggressive government interventions. Six “modules” have been announced. They constitute the inquiry’s agenda. All of them are concerned with the quality of government decision-making. None of them directly addresses the efficacy of lockdowns, masks, travel bans and other non-pharmaceutical interventions. These issues have been shoehorned into module 2, which is entitled “Core UK decision-making and political governance”. That tells us a lot about the inquiry’s priorities.” – Sunday Times
Philippa Stroud ARC interview: “We need a better story for our children”
“The narrative that we have at the moment is one of decline-ism, perma-crisis and poly-crisis. The stories that we tell ourselves shape our identity, and then our identity goes on to shape our actions. If you have a narrative of decline, of anxiety, it seeps into every part of society, becomes self-fulfilling. And if you are a parent trying to raise children now and you’re putting them through the education system, they will be coming home with a sense that our history is not OK. That the world is coming to an end. The mental health of our children is declining. But we are not making the links between this narrative of decline and their mental health. We need to be telling a better story for our children, to give them hope and a future.” – Sunday Telegraph
Labour frontbenchers mull “robot tax”
“Labour frontbenchers have been considering a “robot tax” that would target companies that sack staff and replace them with artificial intelligence, The Telegraph can disclose. The idea has been raised during discussions with third-party organisations, and was suggested by Alex Davies-Jones, the shadow minister for technology and digital economy, at a fringe event at last month’s Labour conference. It suggests a possible revival of a “robot tax” mooted during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. However, the party has since sought to play down Ms Davies-Jones’s comments.” – Sunday Telegraph
- Reeves: My generation of women have been influenced by Thatcher – Mail on Sunday
- Labour Together wants Starmer version of Levelling Up – Sunday Times
- Hall attacks Khan over Black Lives Matter e-mails – Sun on Sunday
- SNP prison mobile phones U-turn – Mail on Sunday
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