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Wes Streeting tells Britons 'don’t salary immoderate attraction whatsoever to what Trump says astir medicine'

Wes Streeting, nan wellness secretary, has urged pregnant women to disregard Donald Trump’s claims astir a nexus betwixt taking paracetamol and autism.

Speaking connected ITV’s Lorraine, Streeting said:

I spot doctors complete President Trump, frankly, connected this.

Streeting explained:

I’ve conscionable sewage to beryllium really clear astir this: location is nary grounds to nexus nan usage of paracetamol by pregnant women to autism successful their children. None.

In fact, a awesome study was done backmost successful 2024 successful Sweden, involving 2.4 cardinal children, and it did not uphold those claims.

So I would conscionable opportunity to group watching, don’t salary immoderate attraction whatsoever to what Donald Trump says astir medicine. In fact, don’t return moreover return my connection for it, arsenic a leader – perceive to British doctors, British scientists, nan NHS.

It’s really important that a clip erstwhile you cognize location is scepticism – and I don’t deliberation scepticism itself, asking questions is successful itself a bad thing, by each means, inquire questions – but we’ve sewage to travel aesculapian science.

Labour rejects Tory claims Starmer collapsed rules by not declaring Labour Together donations during activity campaign

The Conservatives person written to nan parliamentary commissioner for standards calling for an investigation into allegations that Keir Starmer whitethorn person grounded to state “potentially thousands of pounds’ worth” of support from run group Labour Together erstwhile he ran for nan Labour activity successful 2020.

This is nan 3rd investigation that nan Tories person demanded wrong 48 hours successful narration to a contention astir Labour Together, a group primitively tally by Morgan McSweeney, who is now Starmer’s main of staff. Labour Together was group up to conflict Corbynism successful nan statement erstwhile Jeremy Corbyn was successful complaint and it yet played a crucial, though mostly behind-the-scenes, domiciled successful helping Starmer to go leader successful 2000.

The group grounded to state donations worthy £730,000 to nan Electoral Commission and was investigated successful 2021 and fined. These facts person been known for years. But liking successful nan communicative has been revived by publication of a caller book, The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and nan Crisis of British Democracy, by Paul Holden.

On Sunday nan Tories demanded a constabulary investgation into claims that McSweeney deliberately did not disclose nan donations. McSweeney has said nan non-disclosure was inadvertent, nan consequence of an administrative error.

Last nighttime Kevin Hollinrake, nan Tory chair, wrote to nan Electoral Commission demanding an inquiry.

And this greeting Hollinrake has released the matter of a letter to Daniel Greenberg, nan parliamentary commissioner for standards. In nan missive he says:

Between January and April 2020, Labour held a activity contest. Evidence from that play suggests that nan premier curate accepted perchance thousands of pounds’ worthy of proposal and polling via nan members’ relation Labour Together. A reappraisal of his registry of members’ interests for that clip reveals nary grounds of these donations. The parliamentary rules are clear that “support successful kind” from Labour Together should person been declared, but it was not.

In 2021, nan Electoral Commission fined Labour Together for failing to study donations covering nan play 2017 to 2020. New grounds has since travel to ray which raises questions arsenic to whether this nonaccomplishment was deliberate, successful an effort to mislead nan Electoral Commission. At nan time, nan premier minister’s now Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney, was a head astatine Labour Together and responsible for ineligible compliance.

This caller accusation prompts a re-evaluation of Labour Together’s activities betwixt 2017 and 2020. Labour Together itself has claimed that it “helped to rally nan statement rank down Keir Starmer” and that it “united nan statement down Keir Starmer’s activity campaign”.

Reports bespeak that Labour Together, nether Morgan McSweeney, spent hundreds of thousands of pounds connected polling, which was past utilized successful Starmer’s activity campaign. This support was not declared.

Labour Together besides provided written materials and strategical support. The organisation was progressive successful preparing Sir Keir’s first reside arsenic Labour leader, yet this assistance does not look successful nan Register. Notably, astatine this clip nan chancellor, Rachel Reeves, did registry donations for nan “provision of investigation and penning services”, yet nan premier curate did not.

Hollinrake suggests Starmer collapsed nan rules saying MPs must state support worthy much than £1,500, including “support successful kind”.

In response, a Labour root said:

Neither Keir, nor his activity run accepted monetary aliases successful benignant donations from Labour Together during nan activity election.

Commenting connected nan Tory attack to nan Electoral Commission, a committee spokesperson said nan rumor had been “thoroughly investigated” successful 2021 and had been “satisfied that nan grounds proved beyond reasonable uncertainty that failures by nan relation occurred without reasonable excuse”. She added: “Offences were wished and they were sanctioned accordingly.”

Business caput Peter Kyle to sojourn Jaguar Land Rover arsenic shutdown extended by a week

Peter Kyle, nan business secretary, will sojourn Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to meet companies successful nan proviso concatenation arsenic nan carmaker extended its shutdown into October aft a cyber-attack, PA Media reports.

Ed Davey to onslaught ‘cruelty and stupidity’ of Trump management successful reside to Lib Dem conference

Good morning. Ed Davey, nan Liberal Democrat leader, will present his keynote reside to his party’s convention coming and he is going to usage it to onslaught “the cruelty and stupidity” of nan Trump administration successful nan US. He will beryllium referring successful peculiar to its cognition to aesculapian research, according to extracts from nan reside briefed successful advance. Davey is expected to say:

The United States is by acold nan world’s biggest funder of crab investigation – mostly done its National Cancer Institute. But since Donald Trump returned to nan White House, he has cancelled hundreds of grants for crab investigation projects.

He’s slashing billions of dollars from nan National Cancer Institute’s budget. He’s moreover ordered a reappraisal of each grants for investigation involving supposedly ‘woke’ keywords – including nan connection ‘women’.

And past month, Trump’s wellness caput – Robert Kennedy Jr – cancelled half a cardinal dollars’ worthy of investigation into mRNA vaccines. He did it based connected wholly mendacious conspiracy theories astir these life-saving vaccines. The aforesaid type of vaccines that protected america from Covid conscionable a fewer years agone …

It is difficult to definitive nan cruelty and stupidity of cutting disconnected investigation into medicine that has nan powerfulness to prevention truthful galore lives. A determination – by nan measurement – that was enthusiastically applauded by Farage’s statement astatine their conference. I don’t deliberation we should fto nan Trump Administration clasp backmost advancement connected tackling crab for illustration this.

Davey’s embargoed comments were briefed to nan media earlier Trump utilized a White House property convention to make bogus claims astir nan causes of autism, and truthful nan Davey reside could not beryllium much topical. A time aft Nigel Farage outlined plans to deport hundreds of thousands of foreigners, Davey will beryllium speaking up for immigration. Specifically, he will opportunity nan authorities should group up a dedicated fellowship strategy to lure US crab researchers, who are appalled by nan Trump policies, to nan UK.

Peter Walker has a afloat preview here.

Here is nan schedule for nan day.

9am: Liberal Democrats commencement nan last time of their convention pinch emergency debates connected integer authorities and nan asylum system.

10am: The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development publishes its latest interim economical outlook, pinch its latest forecasts for nan UK economy.

2.20pm: Ed Davey, nan Lib Dem leader, closes his statement convention pinch his keynote speech.

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