Sunak to strip GPs of proper to signal folks off sick
“Rishi Sunak is vowing to finish Britain’s “sick-note tradition” and says that over-medicalising widespread anxieties is driving an increase within the variety of folks off work with psychological well being issues. GPs face being stripped of the fitting to difficulty sick notes, because the prime minister says medical doctors are too readily writing folks off as unfit for work. Specialist groups linked to the advantages system will as a substitute assess the sick and resolve how finest to maintain them in work. In a speech to be given in London, Sunak guarantees a “new welfare settlement” to sort out “unsustainable” rises in profit spending and the report 2.8 million folks off work with long-term illness.” – The Occasions
- PM vows to finish Britain’s ‘sick notice tradition’ – Every day Telegraph
- Sunak tells sicknote Britain to get a grip and discover a job – Every day Specific
- Crackdown on sick notice tradition – FT
- Overhaul of match notice system to be unveiled – The Guardian
- GPs to lose energy at hand out sick notes – Every day Mail
- Faculties requested to offer hundreds of free childcare locations – The Occasions
- Sunak’s spouse in line for multimillion-pound Infosys payout – The Occasions
- Tory hire reforms backfire as evictions shoot up – Every day Telegraph
- Case ‘allowed unrelenting and systemic racism to run rampant’ in Cupboard Workplace – Every day Telegraph
MPs and friends set to vote in a single day to get Rwanda Invoice via
“Ministers are making ready to power MPs and friends to sit down via the evening to get Rishi Sunak’s Security of Rwanda Invoice via Parliament on Monday. After being criticised for failing to “run the votes around the clock”, the Prime Minister has ordered get together managers to make sure that there aren’t any extra delays after friends blocked the Rwanda Invoice for a fourth time on Wednesday. The hardline tactic emerged after Downing Road had appeared to drop Mr Sunak’s goal of getting the primary Rwanda deportation flights off the bottom within the spring due to the delays to the laws. Parliamentary “ping-pong” has spanned practically three weeks, beginning simply earlier than the two-week Easter recess. It threatens to equal the report of 5 rounds of to-ing and fro-ing between the 2 Homes, set by Labour’s Prevention of Terrorism Act within the early 2000s.” – Every day Telegraph
Tory activists name for ‘disgusting’ MP Menzies to face police probe
“Police have been final evening urged to research a Tory MP accused of misusing hundreds of kilos of marketing campaign funds to repay ‘unhealthy folks’ who locked him in a flat. In one other sleaze headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Fylde MP Mark Menzies had the whip suspended and was axed as a commerce envoy over the extraordinary allegations. He’s stated to have ‘angrily’ referred to as an aged former mayoress at 3.15am in the future final December demanding that she launch £5,000 from an area marketing campaign account as a ‘matter of life and dying’. Native get together stalwart Katie Fieldhouse, 78, refused, however one other get together employee reportedly cashed in an Isa to cowl the fee, later being reimbursed from cash raised by native donors.” – Every day Mail
- Conservative HQ resists calls to refer Menzies to police – The Guardian
- Police to contact Menzies over marketing campaign fund misuse allegations – The Guardian
- Starmer requires police investigation into Menzies – FT
Grant: A ban on smoking? Stubbing out Tory sleaze could have been the higher precedence
“When the publication of the memoirs of strolling social-skills-bypass, the Rt Hon Liz Truss, isn’t even within the high three most doubtful issues members of your get together have managed to attain in per week you understand you’re in bother. Such developments are more and more the “new regular” within the Conservative Get together. They make the earlier champions of British political perversion, the Lib Dems, appear like a Brownie pack. It’s indicative of their present topsy-turvy morality that Tory HQ appears extra exercised about authorized adults having a artful smoke than coping with the apparently countless sleaze.” – Every day Telegraph
Dowden ‘urges Sunak’ to name early election amid fears of Tory wipe out
“Deputy PM Oliver Dowden has urged Rishi Sunak to name an election sooner somewhat than later. The PM insists the “working assumption” is a basic election within the second half of this yr. No 10 officers and strategists need to wait till October or November with hopes that an improved financial system and one other spherical of tax-cutting may enhance get together fortunes. However with opinion polls exhibiting the Tories at a brand new report low, senior figures have thought-about a vote in June or July.” – The Solar
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Labour to create ‘gray belt’ to fulfill housing targets
“Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to develop “ugly” components of the inexperienced belt in a transfer that consultants say may free land for as much as half 1,000,000 properties. The Labour chief stated he needed to create a brand new class of “gray belt” land earmarked for growth that has few pure or aesthetic qualities. He advised The Occasions that there was nothing sacred a couple of disused automotive park or former industrial web site that occurred to be on inexperienced belt land. Labour will prioritise constructing on brownfield land, however Starmer stated the get together should be trustworthy about that proven fact that it is going to be unable to construct the properties wanted with out releasing some land classed as inexperienced belt.” – The Occasions
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Rayner’s eldest baby on electoral roll at ‘different’ home
“Angela Rayner is dealing with recent questions after her eldest baby was listed on the electoral roll on the house the place she has insisted she didn’t stay. Public paperwork, seen by The Occasions, present Rayner’s son, then in his late teenagers, residing in Stockport together with his stepfather somewhat than with the Labour deputy chief. On the time, in 2014, Rayner was listed on the electoral roll at a former council house, a couple of mile away, that she has insisted was her “principal property”. Social media pictures from the interval present her son’s bed room on the Lowndes Lane property the place he was registered, owned by Mark Rayner, who was then her husband.” – The Occasions
- Labour destroyed paperwork that would have revealed Rayner’s residing preparations – Every day Telegraph
Sturgeon’s husband charged with embezzlement
“Nicola Sturgeon’s husband has been charged with embezzlement following a nine-hour interview by detectives investigating SNP funds. Peter Murrell, the get together’s former chief government, was rearrested and questioned at Falkirk police station by detectives as a part of the Operation Branchform investigation into £600,000 of SNP funds. He attended the station by appointment at 9.13am on Thursday earlier than being charged at 6.35pm after which launched. It’s understood Murrell has resigned his SNP membership. An SNP spokesman stated the event was a “shock” however wouldn’t remark additional.” – The Occasions
- Murrell charged in reference to embezzlement of SNP funds – Every day Telegraph
- Former SNP CEO charged – Every day Mail
- Sturgeon’s husband faces fees – The Guardian
- SNP breaks silence as Murrell resigns – Every day Specific
- Scrapping 2030 goal is ‘worst environmental resolution’ but – The Occasions
Truss’s ebook not cleared to disclose particulars of chat with Queen
“Liz Truss didn’t get the Cupboard Workplace’s clearance to disclose particulars of personal conversations with the late Queen in her new memoir. The previous prime minister broke the principles meant to keep away from delicate particulars about an individual’s time in authorities being launched. Truss launched her new ebook, Ten Years to Save the West, on Tuesday, and stated it detailed “my expertise of being the one conservative within the room”. The ebook is a defence of her 49-day premiership, however contains behind-the-scenes particulars about her time in No 10 within the lead-up to and after the disastrous September 2022 mini-budget.” – The Occasions
Road ditches Tories in West Midlands mayoral marketing campaign materials
“The West Midlands mayor, Andy Road, has stated it’s “totally deliberate” to exclude reference to the Conservative get together from his marketing campaign materials, as he believes he’s preventing a person marketing campaign and “individuals are sick and bored with Westminster”. Road is hoping to be elected to a 3rd time period in workplace in Could’s election in a vote that could possibly be the strongest indicator but as to how the 2 principal events will carry out on the impending basic election. The previous John Lewis boss has been criticised for largely excluding reference to the Conservative get together from his social media accounts and marketing campaign literature, and has ceaselessly described himself as extra of a businessman than a politician.” – The Guardian