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Conservative leadership hopeful’s plan could lead to many senior Tories refusing to serve on the frontbench
Good morning. Keir Starmer is in Edinburgh this morning for the first meeting of the Council of Nations and Regions. To publicise it, the government is flagging up an announcement about “more than £24bn of private investment for pioneering energy projects”, although it has been pointed out that some of this is not strictly new. As for the meeting itself, the main story to emerge so far is that Sue Gray has not turned up, despite being appointed as the PM’s new envoy for nations and regions.
Meanwhile, the Conservative party is still generating news. Robert Jenrick, one of the two candidates left in the leadership contest, gave an interview to the Today programme this morning with various interesting lines.
It would be one of the stable of Conservative policies, so yes, we would go into the next election with it in our manifesto.
I believe it’s very important that we do this … I’ve already said to James, who is a friend, someone I respect enormously, that I would be delighted for him to serve in the shadow cabinet should he want to do so.
I don’t think the point of difference is as big as perhaps you suggest it is. There is now a consensus within the Conservative party that the ECHR is not working in the interests of the British people, for all the reasons that I’ve just described.
Most people now are saying that, at a bare minimum, we need to reform the ECHR.
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