{"id":115811,"date":"2018-06-19T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=115811&preview=true&preview_id=115811"},"modified":"2018-06-19T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:48:53","slug":"political-headlines-nhs-funding-defence-spending-windrush-day-and-brexit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-headlines-nhs-funding-defence-spending-windrush-day-and-brexit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Headlines – cannabis legalisation, ‘meaningful vote’, NHS spending boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Political Headlines include Lord Hague calling for cannabis legalisation, the Government being defeated by the Lords over Brexit ‘meaningful vote’ and Hammond warning that the NHS spending boost leaves no cash for other policies<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Lord Hague calls for cannabis legalisation<\/strong><\/span>
\nWriting in The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, former<\/a> Conservative leader Lord Hague claims that the war against cannabis has been \u2018comprehensively and irreversibly lost\u2019 and that the Conservatives should \u2018be bold\u2019 and imitate Canada, which is legalising the drug. The paper adds that Home Secretary Sajid Javid was prevented from raising the issue at Cabinet yesterday, following the controversy over the supply of medicinal cannabis to 12-year-old Billy Caldwell.<\/p>\n

Government again defeated by Lords over Brexit \u2018meaningful vote\u2019
\n<\/strong><\/span>The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a> that the Government has been defeated again by the House of Lords over the issue of a \u2018meaningful vote\u2019, after Viscount Hailsham tabled an amendment based on the deal Dominic Grieve thought he had struck with the Government last week. MPs will vote on the amendment on Wednesday. The Financial Times<\/em> claims<\/a> that UK negotiators are now suggesting that a deal with the EU may not be agreed until November or December, rather than early autumn as originally expected.<\/p>\n

Hammond warns that NHS spending boost leaves no cash for other policies<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Times<\/em> claims<\/a> that Chancellor Philip Hammond told the Cabinet that after having to find \u00a325bn for the NHS and other money to replace funding currently provided by the EU, there will be no funding for other policies. A cabinet minister said that Hammond had dispelled \u2018any sense that the taps were about to be turned on\u2019. The paper also reports<\/a> that Theresa May has said she is prepared to use legislation to roll back Andrew Lansley\u2019s NHS reforms.<\/p>\n

First details of \u2018settled status\u2019 plan to be published<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a> that the Government will reveal the first details of the new \u2018settled status\u2019 immigration scheme for the 3.4m EU citizens living in the UK on Thursday. A \u2018statement of intent\u2019 will list some of the evidence they will need to provide, but will be \u2018like a consultation paper\u2019 an \u2018informed source\u2019 told the paper.<\/p>\n

New \u00a320m fund to combat loneliness<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Daily Telegraph<\/em> says<\/a> that schemes to be supported by the Government as part of a new \u00a320m Building Connections fund to tackle loneliness include mobile coffee vans, woodworking in sheds for middle-aged men, an app for young mothers and converting redundant public spaces into \u2018loneliness gardens\u2019.<\/p>\n

Rail firms admit they only realised the extent of problems at the \u2018last minute\u2019<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Daily Mail<\/em> reports<\/a> that executives from rail firms admitted to the Commons Transport Committee that they only realised at the \u2018very last minute\u2019 that their timetables would not work. The Financial Times<\/em> adds<\/a> that Lib Dem MP Tim Farron and local rail users have worked with a charter train operator to restore services to a line in the Lake District.<\/p>\n

Government set to water down petrol and diesel car ban<\/span>
\n<\/strong>According<\/a> to the Financial Times<\/em>, the UK\u2019s plan to ban petrol, diesel and most hybrid cars by 2040 is set to be downgraded to a \u2018mission\u2019 in the \u2018Road to Zero Strategy\u2019 due to be published by the Government tomorrow. Concerns about the policy\u2019s impact on the automotive sector have been raised by Business Secretary Greg Clark.<\/p>\n

Javid causes rift with India over student visa scheme
\n<\/strong><\/span>The Times<\/em> alleges<\/a> that Sajid Javid has caused a \u2018diplomatic rift\u2019 by deciding not to include Indian students in a new fast-track visa system because of concerns about \u2018non-compliance\u2019 (i.e. disappearing after entering the country). An Indian government source told the paper that \u2018relations are not at their best right now, while Lord Bilimoria warned that \u2018If this is the way they treat India, they can dream on about a FTA with India.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Today’s Political Headlines include the NHS funding black hole, a call for increased defence spending, Windrush Day and no no-deal aviation talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":412,"featured_media":115815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7367,3694,7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115813,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115811\/revisions\/115813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}