Andy Burnham tells Sky: “Any answer to this issue that begins with the words ‘women should’ or ‘women must’ is in my view the wrong answer. This is an issue that starts with men and boys and that is where attention should go.”
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U.K. political editor for POLITICO
- BREAKING - Labour members have passed a motion backing a change to the voting system to proportional representation. Carried easily on a show of hands. Big cheer in the hall when it passed.
- Chris Bryant MP, chairman of the Commons Standards Committee, tells Boris Johnson: "Downing Street under him has been a cesspit, full of arrogant, entitled narcissists"
- NEW: Tory MP Jonathan Gullis' Bill to override human rights rulings when deporting asylum seekers has been crushed at the first hurdle. Defeated by 188 votes to 69
- Very heated moment in the Commons as Labour's Wes Streeting says: "The Prime Minister is not fit to lick the boot of NHS staff in this country."
- This is the astonishing moment a Cabinet minister ordered the nation not to gather outdoors - 55 minutes before 40 No10 staff had a garden party.
- Angela Rayner winds up in the no-confidence debate by saying Boris Johnson's speech was “as delusional as the Transport Secretary’s leadership bid but sadly not as brief". She adds: "The only 'deep state' relevant tonight is the one he has left this country in."
- Tom Tugendhat rules out leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
- “We delivered on every single one of our promises”, says Boris Johnson in no confidence debate - a statement which is, just objectively, incredibly untrue.
- Steve Bray's speakers are back on outside Parliament
- Jarring interview of Dominic Raab by Mark Austin while sirens blare in Kyiv. Austin: “The siren’s just going off here. How does the 75 year old woman living in a basement, get to her son who’s living in London?” Raab: “I can’t comment on every potential hypothetical case..."
- Labour MP Afzal Khan: “My beloved mum died of Covid in March 2020. She died alone in hospital while I sat in the car outside, trying to be as close to her as I could. “Even burdened with our grief, my family obeyed the rules." mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
- "We all have different breads in my house," Rishi Sunak tells BBC
