{"id":116426,"date":"2018-07-16T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=116426&preview=true&preview_id=116426"},"modified":"2018-07-16T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T08:23:21","slug":"political-headlines-justine-greenings-referendum-tory-whipping-antisemitism-and-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-headlines-justine-greenings-referendum-tory-whipping-antisemitism-and-boris-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Headlines – Justine Greening’s Referendum, Tory whipping, antisemitism and Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Political Headlines includes Greening’s calls for a second referendum, Eurosceptic Tories planning a whipping, Labour’s antisemitism definition may breach the Equality Act and Boris Johnson’s attack.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Greening calls for second referendum<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Times<\/em>\u00a0reveals<\/a>\u00a0that Justine Greening has become the first senior Conservative to call for a second referendum, criticising the Prime Minister\u2019s Brexit plan as the \u2018worst of both worlds\u2019. Greening suggests a vote with three options: remaining in the EU, the negotiated deal, or a clean break, with voters given first and second preference votes. Speaking yesterday, the paper\u00a0adds<\/a>, Theresa May said that her proposals were \u2018a good deal for the UK\u2019 and claimed that Donald Trump had told her to sue the EU instead of negotiating.<\/p>\n

Eurosceptic Tories set up whipping operation<\/span>
\n<\/strong>According<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, Eurosceptic Conservative MPs have established a \u2018party within a party\u2019, with a whipping operation being run by former Brexit minister Steve Baker. More than 100 Tory MPs are now in a WhatsApp group being run by Baker, who has urged them to vote for four amendments to the Taxation (Cross Border) Trade Bill today. The paper also\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0that party chair Brandon Lewis threatened to cut funding for Andrea Jenkyns\u2019 constituency after she called for Theresa May to quit.<\/p>\n

Labour\u2019s antisemitism definition may breach the Equality Act<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the Jewish Labour Movement is to give the Labour Party advice which claims that its definition of antisemitism could breach the Equality Act. The advice states that because the definition does not follow the Macpherson principle (a racist incident is one which the victim perceives to be racist), it would result in Jews being treated less favourably than other groups.<\/p>\n

Boris Johnson attacks \u2018lack of self-confidence\u2019 in Brexit<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Writing<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, Boris Johnson has used his first article since resigning as Foreign Secretary to attack the \u2018lack of self-confidence, in the current debate on the EU, about whether we can do things for ourselves\u2019 and to call for Britons to use Brexit as a chance to \u2018rediscover the spirit of dynamism\u2019 of the Victorian period.<\/p>\n

Rudd quit because civil servants let her down<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The Daily Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that an internal inquiry has found that Amber Rudd stepped down as Home Secretary because senior civil servants failed to tell her about targets to remove illegal immigrants. The paper adds that the two civil servants in question were moved out of their posts following the inquiry\u2019s conclusion and that a summary of the report has been shown to the Commons Home Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n

Utility firms deterred from investing because of Corbyn\u2019s nationalisation plans<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The\u00a0Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0that Paul Drechsler, the vice-president of the CBI, has warned that utility firms are being deterred from investing because of Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s plans for renationalisation. He has called on the party \u2018to be very clear about the scope of the policy\u2019 and carry out \u2018a high-quality fact-based assessment of the pros and cons\u2019.<\/p>\n

May to announce \u00a3300m for aerospace industry<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The BBC\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that Theresa May is to use a speech at the Farnborough Airshow today to announce extra investment for the British aerospace industry. More than \u00a3300m will be made available for various projects, including more environmentally-friendly aircraft, two new spaceports and a commitment to build a new fighter aircraft.<\/p>\n

Mordaunt tells Catholic Church to change teaching on contraception<\/span>
\n<\/strong>According<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt used a meeting with aides of Pope Francis to call for the Catholic Church to relax its ban on the use of contraception. She told the paper that she called on the church to \u2018help us save lives, especially of young mothers\u2019.<\/p>\n

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