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Tory MP uses junior staff member to make point about pay and it goes badly wrong

Lee Anderson's comments have been reported to Commons authorities

Wales Online

Criticism as Nottinghamshire MP Lee Anderson uses staff member in nurses foodbank argument

The term 'Poor Katy' trended on Twitter

Nottingham Post

'Bad taste' Tory MP blasted for using own staff to back up food bank claim

Lee Anderson, who has previously claimed people can cook meals from scratch for 30p, posted a picture of one of his staff members, claiming she earns less than £30,000 but can afford to live in central London and go on foreign holidays

Daily Mirror

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'Simon Clarke's insulting nurses comments prove Tories don't value NHS and its staff'

Today Simon Clarke, who served as a Cabinet Minister when Liz Truss was Prime Minister, had the gall to tell nurses relying on foodbanks they needed to 'budget better and take responsibility'

Daily Mirror

'Disgusting' rich Tory MP accuses nurses using foodbanks of 'not budgeting properly'

Tory Simon Clarke accused NHS workers of not managing their shrinking personal budgets properly. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who earns £84,000 a year as an MP, sparked fury with his comments

Daily Mirror

Ex-minister questions why nurses on ‘average’ £35,000 salary need food banks

Tory MP Simon Clarke says people earning that sum must have an issue with budgeting

Wales Online

Ex-Cabinet minister’s comments over nurses using food banks branded ‘heartless’

Simon Clarke, Liz Truss’s levelling up secretary, said in a radio interview the debate over nurses’ pay has ‘got way out of hand’

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'Out of touch' Tory MP says nurses using food banks should 'budget better'

The comment was made by former levelling up secretary and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke as thousands of nurses walk out in a bitter dispute over pay and conditions

Daily Mirror

Top Tory defends not paying NHS workers more by saying he could be earning £400,000

The former Cabinet minister took part in an online debate on Facebook and told one user that he could be earning £400,000 in the private sector. He used this as an argument against paying NHS workers more.

Wales Online

Top Tory boasts he could earn £400k as he defends not paying NHS workers more

Simon Clarke, who earns more than £84,000 as an MP, boasted his salary would be much higher in the private sector while arguing that the Government does 'not get the credit' it deserves on NHS pay

Daily Mirror

Rishi vs the rebels: can Sunak unite the Tory party?

With growing Tory unrest on everything from energy to housing, does the PM have the strength and backing to stare down his backbenchers? Anne McElvoy reports

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak bows to pressure from Tory backbenchers to allow new onshore wind

Under the proposals, planning permission would be dependent on demonstrating local support

Evening Standard

Sunak set to end ban on new onshore windfarms in face of Tory rebellion

Deal reached that paves way for communities in England to authorise projects without unanimous support

The Guardian - UK

'I won't survive another winter here': Asthma sufferer on council house mould worries

“I WILL be honest with you, I won’t survive another winter in here.”

The National (Scotland)

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The Guardian - UK

Gove offers curbs on holiday lets in talks with Tory housing target rebels

Progress made with at least 60 MPs, says source, as levelling up secretary considers amendments to bill

Daily Mirror

Elections watchdog told ministers 2023 voter ID plans not 'fully secure or workable'

Letters from the Electoral Commission reveal ministers were warned of 'fundamental concerns' over the timetable of the multi-million pound policy that has been condemned by civil liberties campaigners

The Independent UK

Minister brushed off watchdog warning that voter ID plans are not ‘workable’

‘Insufficient time’ to roll out reforms in time for elections in May, says Electoral Commission chief

The Guardian - UK

U-turn on onshore windfarms likely after Tory rebellion

Culture secretary says potential ‘tweaks’ to levelling up bill will be considered because to MPs’ concerns

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The Guardian - UK

Sunak searches for Tory compromise over onshore windfarms U-turn

PM is stuck between two wings of party and at risk of Commons defeat on pro-renewables amendment

The Guardian - UK

Sunak has created a cabinet in his own image – one of weakness and invisibility

With the PM caving in on new homes, and Suella Braverman bunking off again, ministers showing leadership are hard to find

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak hints at U-turn over onshore wind farm ban

Tory rebels seeking to relax rules on ‘local consent’ for new turbines

Wales Online

Prime Minister could U-turn over future of on-shore wind ban, minister suggests

Business Secretary Grant Shapps denied that a growing Tory rebellion over the issue constituted a 'row'

Daily Mirror

Grant Shapps hints at onshore wind climbdown as Rishi Sunak faces Tory revolt

The Prime Minister is under pressure from a group of Tory MPs to allow onshore wind farms, while another set of Conservatives wants to scrap house-building targets

The Guardian - UK

Robert Jenrick says migrants with diphtheria symptoms will no longer be dispersed around country – as it happened

Immigration minister confirms 50 cases of diphtheria linked to Manston asylum accommodation

The Guardian - UK

No 10 set to allow new onshore wind projects in England in U-turn

Grant Shapps says there will be more onshore wind projects ‘where communities are in favour of it’

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