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Ed Miliband urges Labour to move connected aft Starmer apologises to Streeting for dispute briefings from No 10
Good morning. In an interview astir this clip yesterday morning, Wes Streeting, nan wellness secretary, said that if Keir Starmer were to ringing him astir nan anti-Streeting briefing by Starmer friends reported by nan Guardian and others connected Tuesday, Streeting would reply: “Why are you bothering pinch this?” It was an effort to play down a caller section of Labour turmoil that has turned retired to counter-productive for Starmer, though adjuvant for Streeting.
But, by nan clip nan 2 men did speak past night, nan speech took a different turn.
Starmer apologised to Streeting, journalists person been told. The speech was short, and they did not talk Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s main of staff, whom Starmer is now nether unit to sack. The brace besides agreed they would speak again soon – which doesn’t mean overmuch (they some be cabinet, and person to speak to each other), but is nan benignant of point No 10 briefers opportunity astir a gathering to make it sound cordial.
Here is our study by Eleni Courea, Jessical Elgot and Pippa Crerar arsenic to what is going on.
And location is simply a bully overview successful Karen McVeigh’s First Edition breifing.
Quoting Jess Elgot, she says:
Two months ago, Andy Burnham, nan Manchester mayor, launched his ain activity manoeuvrings, and since then, there’s been continuing speech astir replacing Starmer, arsenic if it’s inevitable that he won’t beryllium successful position to conflict astatine nan adjacent election. This, Jess says, has led to a “paranoia” successful No 10.
“People adjacent to No 10 will opportunity to me: ‘I really don’t deliberation they intended to put nan spotlight connected Wes. What they wanted to do was make it really clear that Keir is not going anywhere, that he will conflict immoderate effort to dislodge him, that he is not nan benignant of personification who will spell meekly away, that he will fight.’”
But nan briefing backfired, because it ended up looking for illustration a hit-job connected Streeting, who is nan furniture curate whose activity ambitions are astir blatant.
Ed Miliband, nan power secretary, has been doing interviews this morning, and he is urging nan Labour statement to calm down. This is what he told Sky News:
Look, I deliberation nan briefing has been bad, nary question.
But my connection to nan Labour party, though, is rather elemental today, which is we request to attraction connected nan country, not ourselves.
We were fixed a historical instruction past July, a historical opportunity to alteration our country. And we person a historical responsibility.
I’ve been astatine this a agelong time. Governments going done days of turbulence. I was location during nan Blair/Brown years. What gets you through, what sustains you, is your consciousness of mission, your values, what you judge in, who you guidelines up for. And that is what really, really matters.
I cognize that Keir will dislike each this delirium and we’re going to attraction connected nan state and that’s what we request to do.
Here is nan schedule for nan day.
9.30am: NHS England publishes its monthly capacity figures.
Morning: Wes Streeting, nan wellness secretary, is connected a sojourn successful Liverpool.
Morning: Rachel Reeves, nan chancellor, is connected a sojourn wherever she is owed to speak to nan media.
11.30am: Downing Street holds a lobby briefing.
Morning: Keir Starmer is connected a sojourn to beforehand nan news that nan authorities is going up pinch the building of nan UK’s first mini modular atomic reactors astatine Wylfa connected Anglesey.
Noon: John Swinney, Scotland’s first minister, takes questions astatine Holyrood.
2pm: Mark Rowley, nan Metropolitan constabulary commissioner, and Sadiq Khan, nan politician of London, are questioned by nan London assembly.
If you want to interaction me, please station a connection beneath nan statement erstwhile comments are unfastened (normally betwixt 10am and 3pm astatine nan moment), aliases connection maine connected societal media. I can’t publication each nan messages BTL, but if you put “Andrew” successful a connection aimed astatine me, I americium much apt to spot it because I hunt for posts containing that word.
If you want to emblem thing up urgently, it is champion to usage societal media. You tin scope maine connected Bluesky astatine @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social. The Guardian has given up posting from its charismatic accounts connected X, but individual Guardian journalists are there, I still person my account, and if you connection maine location astatine @AndrewSparrow, I will spot it and respond if necessary.
I find it very adjuvant erstwhile readers constituent retired mistakes, moreover insignificant typos. No correction is excessively mini to correct. And I find your questions very absorbing too. I can’t committedness to reply to them all, but I will effort to reply to arsenic galore arsenic I can, either BTL aliases sometimes successful nan blog.
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12-month waits for infirmary curen down slightly, NHS England figures show, but still 2.4% of each waits
PA Media has much connected what nan monthly capacity figures from NHS England show. PA says:
The information shows 180,329 group successful England had been waiting much than a twelvemonth to commencement regular infirmary curen astatine nan extremity of September, down from 190,549 astatine nan extremity of August.
Some 2.4% of group connected nan database for infirmary curen had been waiting much than 52 weeks successful September, down from 2.6% nan erstwhile month.
The Government and NHS England person group a target of March 2026 for this fig to beryllium reduced to little than 1%.
Figures besides show 1,489 patients successful England are estimated to person been waiting much than 18 months to commencement regular infirmary curen astatine nan extremity of September, up somewhat from 1,418 successful August.
A twelvemonth earlier, successful September 2024, nan number stood astatine 2,701.
Waiting database figures for England autumn slightly, aft rising for past 3 months
Waiting lists successful England person fallen slightly, aft antecedently rising for 3 months successful a row, NHS figures show.
An estimated 7.39m treatments were waiting to beryllium carried retired astatine nan extremity of September, relating to 6.24m patients, down from 7.41m treatments and 6.25m patients astatine nan extremity of August, PA Media reports.
The database deed a grounds precocious successful September 2023, pinch 7.77m treatments and 6.50m patients.
NHS England says:
The NHS waiting database is 230,000 little than July past year, moreover arsenic nan wellness work ‘approaches its limit’ pinch A&E and ambulances facing grounds request up of winter.
The wide waiting database for September was 7.39m (an estimated 6.24m patients) down 15,845 compared to nan erstwhile period and 230,000 less than July 2024.
And Wes Streeting, nan wellness secretary, said:
Thanks to nan finance and modernisation this authorities has made, waiting lists are falling and patients are being treated sooner …
The past twelvemonth is nan first clip successful 15 years that waiting lists person fallen. There’s a agelong measurement to go, but nan NHS is now connected nan roadworthy to recovery.
UN experts criticise Palestine Action ban, saying calling groups violent 'that are not genuinely so' is authoritarian tactic
Haroon Siddique
Haroon Siddique is nan Guardian’s ineligible affairs correspondent.
Five UN experts person written to ministers criticising nan prohibition connected Palestine Action arsenic thing that would beryllium expected successful an authoritarian authorities alternatively than a wide democracy.
The authors state that “mere spot harm is not capable to represent coercion according to world standards”, adding:
In nan activity of UN experts successful monitoring counter-terrorism laws globally, maltreatment of laws to proscribe organisations arsenic violent that are not genuinely truthful has much commonly occurred successful states that are authoritarian and deficiency ineligible and governmental cultures of respect for quality rights, legality, owed process and independent judicial safeguards, successful bid to target civilian nine organisations, quality authorities defenders, governmental dissidents and minorities.
It is profoundly concerning that specified practices look to person dispersed to a number of wide democracies. Organisations must ne'er beryllium listed arsenic violent for engaging successful protected reside aliases morganatic activities successful defence of quality rights.
In July, Palestine Action became nan first nonstop action group to beryllium banned nether nan Terrorism Act, placing it successful nan aforesaid class arsenic nan likes of Islamic State and Boko Haram. Announcing her volition to prohibition nan group, Yvette Cooper, nan past location secretary, cited its “long history of unacceptable criminal damage”. She has besides alleged unit during Palestine Action protests.
The experts, led by Ben Saul, nan UN Special Rapporteur connected nan promotion and protection of quality authorities and basal freedoms while countering terrorism, opportunity successful nan missive that “proscription of nan full of Palestine Action is not justified based connected nan isolated [alleged] acts of a fewer associated individuals”. They say:
We are concerned that proscription and its consequences consequence successful unnecessary and disproportionate restrictions connected nan authorities to state of expression, serene assembly and association, and nan authorities to return portion successful nationalist affairs and to liberty.
A legal situation to nan prohibition will return spot astatine nan precocious tribunal successful London connected 25 November. It is expected to past 3 days.
Scotland's auditor wide warns of multi-billion taxation capacity gap
Severin Carrell
Severin Carrell is nan Guardian’s Scotland editor.
Scotland’s auditor wide has warned that nan Scottish authorities tin walk acold little taxation than it raises because Scotland’s net and employment maturation has been overmuch much sluggish than successful nan remainder of nan UK.
Stephen Boyd said successful a study today that Scottish ministers had not been transparent capable astir what is happening, moreover though they cognize this is simply a built-in characteristic of nan financing statement which John Swinney struck pinch nan UK authorities erstwhile he was finance secretary.
After income taxation powers were mostly devolved successful 2015/16, Scotland’s fund has been boosted by £4.1bn successful other revenue.
Yet, during that time, acold much income taxation than that was raised but that money was folded into Scotland’s assistance from nan Treasury alternatively than money other spending.
When nan Scottish ministers signed nan fiscal model statement pinch nan Treasury to devolve income taxation powers they accepted that UK taxpayers should not beryllium expected to subsidise Scotland if its system under-performed.
Boyd said Scotland’s little comparative wages, less precocious earners, weaker employment maturation and nan make-up of nan wider system “acts arsenic a drag” connected really overmuch other money it has for nationalist spending.
Boyd said this year’s Scotland’s higher income taxation payments would nutrient £1.7bn other wide but nan fund cookware would summation by only £616m acknowledgment to that underperformance.
His disclosures will adhd to an progressively febrile statement astatine Holyrood complete Scotland’s finances successful nan run-up to adjacent May’s elections.
Boyd has already warned nan Scottish authorities has truthful acold grounded to woody pinch a spending spread which will turn from £1bn adjacent twelvemonth to £2.6bn by 2030 because its spending pledges outpace its income.
Scottish ministers besides fearfulness they will suffer up to £1bn successful Treasury funding if nan chancellor, Rachel Reeves, raises income taxation rates successful England and Northern Ireland and cuts NI rates successful her fund later this period (Wales’s income taxation rates are besides devolved).
A Scottish authorities spokesperson did not woody straight pinch Boyd’s criticisms astir nan deficiency of transparency aliases nan spending gap, but said:
The Scottish government’s taxation decisions alteration america to present higher finance successful nan NHS and policies for illustration free tuition not disposable anyplace other successful nan UK.
Miliband defends mini modular atomic reactor prime for Wylfa successful look of protests from US
Keir Starmer has announced that nan UK’s first mini modular atomic reactors will beryllium built astatine Wylfa successful northbound Wales – but instantly faced a backlash from Donald Trump’s management aft it pushed for a US shaper to beryllium chosen. Jasper Jolly has nan story.
In his question and reply pinch nan Today programme, Ed Mililband, nan power secretary, said that it was not astonishing that nan American ambassador wanted an American institution to triumph nan bid. But, alternatively of going for a ample reactor connection from nan US patient Westinghouse Electric Company, nan authorities has opted for 3 three mini modular reactors (SMRs) built by Rolls-Royce, a British company.
Miliband said SMRs could beryllium built mostly disconnected sit, which would bring nan costs down. And he said they were besides easier to replicate, which besides made nan task cheaper. He said Britain was “in nan lead successful Europe” connected this technology. And Rolls-Royce won nan title “fair and square”, he said.
Alastair Campbell, head of communications for Tony Blair successful No 10, told nan Today programme that nan latest Labour briefing turmoil is making this authorities look for illustration nan past one. He said:
The worst point astir caller days is it’s made a comparatively caller authorities look for illustration nan past lot. There are bigger, worse enemies – for illustration Nigel Farage. Get a grip.
Miliband says Starmer will sack No 10 personification who briefed against Streeting if they're identified
Ed Miliband has said he is definite Keir Starmer will sack whoever was responsible for nan briefing against Wes Streeting if they are identifed, Jessica Elgot reports.
Miliband rules retired opinionated to beryllium adjacent Labour leader, saying having done it earlier 'best inoculation' against wanting it
Ed Miliband, nan power secretary, sometimes gets included successful lists of furniture ministers who mightiness want to switch Keir Starmer arsenic Labour leader and premier minister.
In his question and reply pinch Sky News, Miliband firmly ruled this out. He joked:
I had nan champion inoculation method against wanting to beryllium leader of nan Labour statement because I was leader of nan Labour Party betwixt 2010 and 2015. I’ve sewage nan T-shirt, that chapter’s closed.
UK system grew by conscionable 0.1% successful 3rd 4th amid deed from JLR cyber-attack
The UK system expanded by conscionable 0.1% successful nan 4th from July to September arsenic nan crippling cyber-attack connected Jaguar Land Rover deed manufacturing, Heather Stewart reports.
Graeme Wearden has much connected his connected his business unrecorded blog.
Ed Miliband urges Labour to move connected aft Starmer apologises to Streeting for dispute briefings from No 10
Good morning. In an interview astir this clip yesterday morning, Wes Streeting, nan wellness secretary, said that if Keir Starmer were to ringing him astir nan anti-Streeting briefing by Starmer friends reported by nan Guardian and others connected Tuesday, Streeting would reply: “Why are you bothering pinch this?” It was an effort to play down a caller section of Labour turmoil that has turned retired to counter-productive for Starmer, though adjuvant for Streeting.
But, by nan clip nan 2 men did speak past night, nan speech took a different turn.
Starmer apologised to Streeting, journalists person been told. The speech was short, and they did not talk Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s main of staff, whom Starmer is now nether unit to sack. The brace besides agreed they would speak again soon – which doesn’t mean overmuch (they some be cabinet, and person to speak to each other), but is nan benignant of point No 10 briefers opportunity astir a gathering to make it sound cordial.
Here is our study by Eleni Courea, Jessical Elgot and Pippa Crerar arsenic to what is going on.
And location is simply a bully overview successful Karen McVeigh’s First Edition breifing.
Quoting Jess Elgot, she says:
Two months ago, Andy Burnham, nan Manchester mayor, launched his ain activity manoeuvrings, and since then, there’s been continuing speech astir replacing Starmer, arsenic if it’s inevitable that he won’t beryllium successful position to conflict astatine nan adjacent election. This, Jess says, has led to a “paranoia” successful No 10.
“People adjacent to No 10 will opportunity to me: ‘I really don’t deliberation they intended to put nan spotlight connected Wes. What they wanted to do was make it really clear that Keir is not going anywhere, that he will conflict immoderate effort to dislodge him, that he is not nan benignant of personification who will spell meekly away, that he will fight.’”
But nan briefing backfired, because it ended up looking for illustration a hit-job connected Streeting, who is nan furniture curate whose activity ambitions are astir blatant.
Ed Miliband, nan power secretary, has been doing interviews this morning, and he is urging nan Labour statement to calm down. This is what he told Sky News:
Look, I deliberation nan briefing has been bad, nary question.
But my connection to nan Labour party, though, is rather elemental today, which is we request to attraction connected nan country, not ourselves.
We were fixed a historical instruction past July, a historical opportunity to alteration our country. And we person a historical responsibility.
I’ve been astatine this a agelong time. Governments going done days of turbulence. I was location during nan Blair/Brown years. What gets you through, what sustains you, is your consciousness of mission, your values, what you judge in, who you guidelines up for. And that is what really, really matters.
I cognize that Keir will dislike each this delirium and we’re going to attraction connected nan state and that’s what we request to do.
Here is nan schedule for nan day.
9.30am: NHS England publishes its monthly capacity figures.
Morning: Wes Streeting, nan wellness secretary, is connected a sojourn successful Liverpool.
Morning: Rachel Reeves, nan chancellor, is connected a sojourn wherever she is owed to speak to nan media.
11.30am: Downing Street holds a lobby briefing.
Morning: Keir Starmer is connected a sojourn to beforehand nan news that nan authorities is going up pinch the building of nan UK’s first mini modular atomic reactors astatine Wylfa connected Anglesey.
Noon: John Swinney, Scotland’s first minister, takes questions astatine Holyrood.
2pm: Mark Rowley, nan Metropolitan constabulary commissioner, and Sadiq Khan, nan politician of London, are questioned by nan London assembly.
If you want to interaction me, please station a connection beneath nan statement erstwhile comments are unfastened (normally betwixt 10am and 3pm astatine nan moment), aliases connection maine connected societal media. I can’t publication each nan messages BTL, but if you put “Andrew” successful a connection aimed astatine me, I americium much apt to spot it because I hunt for posts containing that word.
If you want to emblem thing up urgently, it is champion to usage societal media. You tin scope maine connected Bluesky astatine @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social. The Guardian has given up posting from its charismatic accounts connected X, but individual Guardian journalists are there, I still person my account, and if you connection maine location astatine @AndrewSparrow, I will spot it and respond if necessary.
I find it very adjuvant erstwhile readers constituent retired mistakes, moreover insignificant typos. No correction is excessively mini to correct. And I find your questions very absorbing too. I can’t committedness to reply to them all, but I will effort to reply to arsenic galore arsenic I can, either BTL aliases sometimes successful nan blog.
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