Sir Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon of stripping Scottish families of their dignity with spending cuts and vowed to win back his party’s former heartlands.
06.10.2021 - 18:59 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Boris Johnson made just one policy announcement as he closed the Conservative Party conference in Manchester with a wisecrack-laden speech.
The prime minister told delegates he would unleash the “unique spirit” of the country as he set out to reshape society and the British economy.
Vowing to take the country towards a "high-wage, high-skilled, high-productivity" and low-tax economy, Mr Johnson said
Sir Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon of stripping Scottish families of their dignity with spending cuts and vowed to win back his party’s former heartlands.
Boris Johnson has been urged to “rethink” the decision not to support a massive carbon capture project in Scotland by the man leading efforts to help the transition from oil and gas to green industries.
Boris Johnson is under pressure to re-introduce covid restrictions to prevent the NHS stumbling into a winter crisis.
Boris Johnson has paid tribute to David Amess as “one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics”.
Boris Johnson cannot be trusted on the international stage to do Brexit trade deals, Ireland’s deputy Prime Minister has warned.
Boris Johnson never understood what his Brexit Withdrawal Agreement with the EU really meant, his former chief adviser has said in a blistering attack.
A Tory minister has defended Boris Johnson for going on holiday while the UK faces energy shortages and problems recruiting much-needed HGV drivers.
Boris Johnson has been told to “get off the sun lounger and start being a statesman” if the Cop26 climate change summit in Glasgow is to succeed.
Boris Johnson has been accused by the SNP of being “asleep at the wheel” as the UK plunges into an energy crisis.
Boris Johnson has jetted off to a holiday in Marbella, leaving behind an energy crisis, an ongoing fuel crisis HGV driver shortage which has threatened supply chains and cruel benefit cuts.
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Friendly Fires have criticised the Tories for using their 2011 single ‘Blue Cassette’ during Boris Johnson‘s speech at the party conference today (October 6).The track, from their second album ‘Pala’, was used as the Prime Minister walked out on stage ahead of his address in Manchester.Its use sparked an angry response on social media from the St Albans band.“We do not endorse the Conservative party’s use of our track ‘Blue Cassette’.
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