What happened in the UK between 2010 and 2020 will scar us for the rest of our lives. David Cameron’s Conservatives, only just victorious in the 2010 election, sold austerity as a necessary response to the 2008 financial crash. The exact social consequences of these cuts were spelled out last week in Michael Marmot’s report for the Institute of Health Equity: for the first time in a century, life expectancy has stopped growing and for women in poor areas actually fallen.

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And yet those things that I have fought for over the year, including by the way getting rid of HS2, have now become quite mainstream within the Conservative Party. The witness is not the first person to have made such a point about senior politicians and media proprietors. The 2012 Leveson inquiry found the relationship between politicians and the press over the previous three decades had damaged the perception of public affairs. It concluded that politicians of all parties had developed “too close a relationship with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest”. Instead of talking about the government’s failure to fix any of the myriad problems this country has faced, we’re all talking about partygate. Luke Sibieta, author of the report, said: “Extra funding in the spending review will reverse cuts to school spending per pupil, but will mean 15 years without any overall growth. Labour has overturned two huge Conservative majorities to win by-elections in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire, in a terrible result for Rishi Sunak, with Sir Keir Starmer lauding a "phenomenal" set of results.

The former leader of the Brexit Party, who is a smoker, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme: “I am a sinner, yes, I get that. But Rishi Sunak is probably the most intelligent prime minister we have had, most decent prime minister too, for many, many years. They [voters] will see a choice between a capable, pragmatic leader, willing to level with the public, to tell it as it is, and to command respect from world leaders on the global stage, and an amateur Labour politician with no vision for the country, whose flip-flops have shredded his credibility. The numbers suggest Mr Sunak has work to do to persuade voters he can deliver on his promise to end the political “status quo” of the last 30 years. Told that in the past he had talked about the importance of an individual’s right to choose and asked why he had changed his mind, Mr Sunak said: “You know, I do and as a Conservative measures to restrict choice are never easy. Simon Clarke, a mouse-fart made flesh and shoved into a beige suit, explained the reason the Tories had been complete dogshit for 12 years is that they “haven’t had a clear run” and it had been “crisis after crisis”

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Later, speaking in Mid Bedfordshire, he added: "We take this incredible victory humbly. We know that voters here have voted for us and they've put their trust and their confidence in a changed Labour Party, and we will repay them for that trust and confidence." Challenged over the delay, Mark Harper told Sky News: “We’ve been working on this whole plan for a number of weeks, as you would expect. The Guardian has repeatedly asked Johnson about his attendances at these parties, and whether he thinks, given the senior government jobs he has held, he is taking unnecessary risks. He has always declined to answer.The Labour leader said: "We accept that victory humbly and go on from here to make that case across the country to usher out 13 years of decline and bring in a Labour government and a decade, I hope, of national renewal." Rishi Sunak said he was “doing politics differently” and would be the candidate to bring “change” at the next general election.

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Alexander Lebedev holds up the English and Russian editions of his book in Moscow last November. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images Tracy Brabin, the Labour Mayor of West Yorkshire, said Rishi Sunak had not consulted northern leaders on his plans to spend the money saved by scrapping the northern leg of HS2 on other transport projects. The Prime Minister announced yesterday that A-Levels and T-Levels will be scrapped and replaced with the ABS.Mr Farage said there was a “bigger problem than young people smoking”, telling the broadcaster: “Smoking long term is bad for health. Undeniable. Drugs, short term, are catastrophic for society and young people and that wasn’t even mentioned.” Some 50 European leaders are using the summit to stress they stand by Ukraine at a time when Western resolve appears somewhat weakened. Lebedev, however, accused the Guardian of a “continuing harassment of me over the past year or so [which] has been full of untruthful innuendo and light on facts. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, is pictured this morning attending a European Political Community summit in Granada, Spain The Transport Secretary told Sky News: “They’re absolutely entitled to their opinion. I worked closely with both of them in government and was very proud to serve with them. But that was a number of years ago.

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The Tories are in “very, very real trouble” in Red Wall seats, Nigel Farage said as he suggested that could have been the reason why the Conservatives were “being nice to me” at their party conference in Manchester. Asked if he would like to apologise for his party’s “false promises” on high speed rail, the Prime Minister told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “No, what I want to say to everybody is that what we are doing is going to be better. It is going to be better for our country. He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme: “They are in trouble. They are in very, very real trouble and they are particularly in trouble in the Red Wall. Having performed 4 cowardly U-turns during her own endless leadership campaign, Truss now seems to now think was is the key to her successLebedev is to receive his letters patent from the Queen on 29 October. The Garter King of Arms will unveil his new title. A ceremony introducing Lebedev to the Lords can be expected soon after. During it, he will swear an oath of allegiance to the monarch while wearing a borrowed ermine robe. As part of her ploy to replace Johnson, Liz Truss, ITV4 made flesh, claimed she’d resolve Brexit in a month, a prediction previously made by