November 23, 2024
Anas Sarwar won The Herald's Scottish Politician of the Year award, apparently in recognition of his work securing Scottish Labour’s result at the last General Election. Go figure.
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November 16, 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves told City bankers that regulations put in place after the global financial crisis had “gone too far” and that tighter rules on banks after the 2008 crash had created “a system which sought to eliminate risk-taking”. Coming soon: another financial crisis.
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November 9, 2024
Donald Trump was elected president a second time.
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November 2, 2024
An analysis of chancellor Rachel Reeves' book, 'The Women Who Made Modern Economics', found more than 20 examples of passages from other sources either lifted wholesale, or reworked with minor changes. And having made all kinds of pre-election promises, her first budget served up an awful lot of austerity measures.
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October 25, 2024
Health Secretary Wes Streeting pledged to “hold the door wide open” for private investment in the health service. "We will go further than New Labour ever did. I want the NHS to form partnerships with the private sector that goes beyond just hospitals.” The SNP were forced to propose a bill in Westminster to “keep the NHS in public hands”.
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October 19, 2024
Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced that the obese unemployed would be given weight loss drugs to 'get them back to work'. Yes, really.
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October 12, 2024
After the departure of the centre-right candidate, James Cleverly, the Tory leadership was whittled down to two rabid right-wingers, Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch. Moderate Conservatives threatened to throw away their ballots.
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October 5, 2024
The BBC had to cancel an interview with Boris Johnson after presenter Laura Kuenssberg accidentally sent the former prime minister her briefing notes. Johnson has a new memoir, 'Unleashed', due for publication.
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September 28, 2024
The Scottish Conservatives announced that their new branch manager was Russell Findlay MSP, replacing Douglas Ross. There was a collective 'who?' on Twitter. In his acceptance speech, Findlay made a joke about sausages, referencing Keir Starmer's slip-up a few days before.
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September 21, 2024
Scottish Secretary Ian Murray said Labour has a ‘big hill to climb’ to win the next Scottish election in 2026, due to the 'dire' economic conditions and the country's volatile electorate. However, he also stated: “I’m confident that we’ll get to 2026 having shown enough progress with the key priorities of the Scottish people to show that we’re a competent government.”
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