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A Tory Leadership Contender Has Revealed The Bizarre Middle Name He Gave His Daughter

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A Tory leadership candidate has revealed the bizarre middle name he gave his daughter as a tribute to a former prime minister.

Robert Jenrick admitted the youngster’s middle name is Thatcher because she was born in 2013, the same year her famous namesake died.

“I thought it was a good way of reminding her of a great prime minister,” he told a question and answer session at the Tory conference in Birmingham.

Margaret Thatcher was prime minister between 1979 and 1990, winning three general elections along the way.

Jenrick is currently the bookies’ favourite to succeed Rishi Sunak as Conservative Party leader.

However, he has been at the centre of a major row after claiming in a campaign video that the SAS kill terrorists rather than capturing them because they could be released by the European Court of Human Rights.

He has been condemned by his leadership rivals James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat, both of whom served in the Army before entering politics.

Appearing on stage after Jenrick this afternoon, Cleverly said: “I’ve never accused the British armed forces of murdering anybody…anyone who makes that assertion better back it up.”

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BBC Host Looks Shocked As Ex-Tory Minister Brutally Lays Into Liz Truss

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A former Tory minister tore Liz Truss apart on live TV earlier today with such brutality that even the BBC presenter looked surprised.

Justine Greening, who was education secretary under Theresa may, said she was “staggered by the fact that there are still any people in the party who still take Liz Truss seriously”.

Truss, who lost her South West Norfolk seat in July less than two years after her colleagues kicked her out of No.10, spoke at a fringe event at the Conservative’s conference in Birmingham on Monday.

She told a packed room that the Tories would have secured more votes at the general election had she remained in power, and – despite no longer being an MP – claimed parliament has become a “shadow of its former self”.

Discussing the ex-PM’s appearance, the host of BBC Politics Live, Jo Coburn, turned to Greening and asked: “Justine, pleased to see and hear from Liz Truss?”

“Well, I think she can call us when the shuttle lands,” Greening immediately replied.

She continued: “I mean, frankly, it’s astonishing she’s even here after a disastrous Budget that torpedoed any slim, remaining hope that the Conservative Party had at of winning the forthcoming election.

“You know, I am staggered by the fact that there are still any people in the party who still take Liz Truss seriously.”

While Greening was talking, the camera panned to Coburn, who looked shocked at the strength of the former MP’s outburst.

Greening was the MP for Putney between 2005 and 2019, and served alongside Truss in May and David Cameron’s governments.

However, Greening lost the Tory whip after blocking Boris Johnson’s no deal Brexit plan in October 2019.

But, she failed to rule out a return to parliament during her conference appearance today, saying: “I’m currently thinking about what to do.

“What is certainly true is I’m not going to give up on this fight. I think the fight of our lifetime, saving Western civilisation, and that is what I am focusing on.”

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Kemi Badenoch Forced To Clarify Maternity Pay Stance As Row Overshadows Tory Conference

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Kemi Badenoch has insisted she does not think statutory maternity pay is “excessive” as a row over her views overshadowed the first day of the Tories’ annual conference.

The leadership contender had appeared to suggest that the amount of money given to new mothers was too much in an interview on Sunday morning.

She later said she had been “misrepresented” as she was forced to clarify her stance.

Speaking to Times Radio’s Kate McCann, Badenoch said: “Tax comes from people who are working. We’re taking from one group of people and giving to another. This in my view is excessive.”

Asked by McCann is she believed maternity pay was excessive, Badenoch replied: “I think it’s gone too far the other way in terms of general business regulation.”

Badenoch’s leadership rivals, James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick, all distanced themselves from her remarks.

The former women and equalities later posted on X: “Contrary to what some have said, I clearly said the burden of regulation on businesses had gone too far… of course I believe in maternity pay! Watch the clip for the truth.”

In a further post, with an accompanying video, she said: “Of course maternity pay isn’t excessive…no mother of 3 kids thinks that.

“But we must talk about the burden of excessive business regulation otherwise we might as well be the Labour Party. My campaign is different from others because tell hard truths. It is how we will renew our party, our thinking and our politics.”

Badenoch also clashed with Laura Kuenssberg over an article she wrote for the Sunday Telegraph in which she said some immigrants to the UK “hate Israel”.

Asked to explain who she “specifically” meant, Badenoch replied: “I know what you’re trying to do, Laura. You want me to say Muslims when it isn’t all Muslims, so I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to play this game.

“I should be able to say that I have made an observation without you trying to portray it as me attacking a particular group.”

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Rishi Sunak Just Made His Final Conference Speech To Tory Members As Party Leader

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Rishi Sunak has officially made his last ever conference speech as the leader of the Conservative Party.

The party’s annual gathering usually has those at the top leading the whole event, but the former PM – who is still leader until November – has taken the almost unprecedented step of not speaking from the main stage at all this year.

Allowing the spotlight to fall on the four remaining contenders vying to replace him, Sunak just made a 15-minute “thank you” speech to party members away from the main hall.

Speaking to a room – which was not exactly packed to the brim – Sunak was quick to apologise for leading the party into its worst set of election results ever.

He said: “I am only sorry that your efforts could not deliver the results you deserved.”

But one person in the crowd heckled him, saying: “It wasn’t you!”

He received further support when he confirmed that this would be his last speech to conference as the Tory Party leader, as another mysterious attendee shouted, “We love you, Rishi!”

He did not respond.

The former PM also wasted no time in criticising Labour, whom he claimed were trying to “rewrite history”.

New PM Keir Starmer has blamed his more unpopular decisions – like restricting the winter fuel payments to those on pension credit – on the £22bn black hole Labour claim the Tories left behind in the government finances.

Sunak said conference this year was clearly such a “hot ticket” that he was surprised the prime minister “hasn’t asked someone to buy it for him”.

He added: “Socialists always run out of other people’s money, something Lord Alli is finding out as we speak.”

Lord Alli is a Labour donor who has been in the spotlight this month over the amount of freebies Starmer has declared since 2019.

Sunak concluded his speech by saying: “I do want to finish with a final ask of all of you.

“Whoever wins this contest, give them your backing.”

He continued: “We must end the division, the backbiting, the squabbling. We must not nurse old grudges but build new friendships.

“We must always remember what unites us rather than obsess over where we might differ, because when we turn in on ourselves we lose and the country ends up with a Labour government.”

Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick are competing to replace Sunak as the leader of the Tory Party, and will use this week’s conference to pitch themselves to the Conservative members.

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Kemi Badenoch Has Said That Statutory Maternity Pay Is ‘Excessive’

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Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has suggested that statutory maternity pay is “excessive”.

According to the government website, new mothers are legally entitled to 90% of their average earnings for six weeks, followed by a maximum of £184.03 a week for the next 33 weeks.

But appearing on Times Radio this morning, Badenoch – a former women and equalities minister – said the exact amount was “neither here nor there”.

She said she was in favour of parents taking “more personal responsibility” rather than burdening businesses with more regulation.

The MP said: “Maternity pay varies depending on who you work for, but it is a function, where it’s statutory maternity pay. It is a function of tax.

“Tax comes from people who are working. We’re taking from one group of people and giving to another. This in my view is excessive.”

Asked by presenter Kate McCann is she believed maternity pay was excessive, Badenoch replied: “I think it’s gone too far the other way in terms of general business regulation.

“We need to allow businesses, especially small businesses, to make more of their own decisions. The exact amount of maternity pay in my view is neither here nor there. We need to make sure that we are creating an environment where people can work and people can have more freedom to make their individual decisions.”

But McCann hit back: “Well it’s here nor there for people who can’t afford to have a baby, isn’t it?”

Badenoch replied: “We need to have more personal responsibility. There was a time when there wasn’t any maternity pay and people were having more babies.”

McCann then told her: “Well that’s because women often had to not work. They had to stay at home. So is that the solution?”

The former cabinet minister then accused the interviewer of “putting words in my mouth”.

She added: “The point I’m making, Kate, is that we have got to a point where government isn’t working anymore and it’s tinkering everywhere. Me giving you an exact amount of what maternity pay should be when circumstances are different everywhere is not where we’re starting from.”

Her comments soon sparked criticism from her leadership rivals.

Robert Jenrick said the Conservatives should be “firmly on the side of parents”, adding: “Nobody says it is easy having kids, why would we want to make it harder?”

Tom Tugendhat claimed he had not seen the context of her comment but that it is “important that women have the ability to choose how to live their lives”.

James Cleverly said: “When it comes to working mothers the cost of childcare is too expensive.

“It was government meddling that made it expensive.

“Let’s make childcare cheaper so that mums who want to can go back to work and can afford to do so.”

Badenoch later responded to the backlash, writing on X: “Contrary to what some have said, I clearly said the burden of regulation on businesses had gone too far… of course I believe in maternity pay! Watch the clip for the truth.”

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Former Tory Chair Quits Party Because It Is So ‘Far Right’

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A former Tory chair has quit the party because it has become so “far right”.

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi said she had decided to give up the Conservative whip in the House of Lords “with a heavy heart”.

In a post on X, she said: “This is a sad day for me. I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current party are far removed from the party I joined and served in cabinet.

“My decision is a reflection of how far right my party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities. A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter.”

Baroness Warsi was made a life peer in 2007 and was Tory chair alongside Lord Feldman between 2010 and 2012.

A close ally of David Cameron, she also served as minister without portfolio, minister for faith and communities and a Foreign Office minister during her time in government.

However, in recent years she has been a consistent critic of her party, especially its treatment of Muslims.

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Tory Leadership Hopeful Kemi Badenoch Declares She Is A ‘Huge Fan’ Of Elon Musk

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Kemi Badenoch has claimed she is a “huge fan” of the world’s richest man, the owner of X Elon Musk, in a new interview.

The Tory leadership hopeful and shadow housing secretary revealed she supports the controversial figure because of his advocacy of freedom of speech.

Speaking to The Spectator, she said: “I think Elon Musk has been a fantastic thing for freedom of speech.

“I will hold my hand up and say, I’m a huge fan of Elon Musk.

“I look at Twitter before he took over and after: there is a lot more free speech.

“Yes, there are many, many more things that I see on X, as he calls it, that I don’t like.

“But I also know that views are not suppressed the way that they were, that there was a cultural establishment – that was very left – that controlled quite a lot of discourse on that platform.”

Musk has turned X (formerly Twitter) upside down since his takeover almost two years ago.

The billionaire, who is a vocal Donald Trump supporter, reinstated several previously banned accounts including that of the former US president, and introducing a subscription service to the platform.

More recently, he has repeated baseless conspiracy theories that there is a “two-tier” policing system in the UK, suggesting the far-right rioters seen in August ended up with a harsher punishment compared to previous pro-Palestine demonstrators.

Musk was also slapped down by No.10 when he claimed “civil war is inevitable” in the UK. Downing Street said: “There’s no justification for comments like that.”

Badenoch, who is currently competing against frontrunner Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat for the title of Tory leader, was the only leadership hopeful to announce support for Musk in her interview with the Spectator.

Jenrick said he was “not going to be booking a tête-à-tête with Elon Musk any time soon”, while Cleverly said you have to be “very, very careful about curtailing voices that you disagree with”.

Tugendhat appeared to question how Musk has handled X, saying: “If you are running a platform that is entirely dominated by anonymous bots, is that freedom of speech – or just propaganda?

“If you are allowed to say whatever you like but you put your name to it, that’s freedom of speech. And it should be defended, absolutely.”

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Building A Yellow Wall? Can Ed Davey And His New MPs Capitalise On Their Election Triumph?

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At the end of the 1972 film The Candidate, newly-elected US senator Bill McKay, played by Robert Redford, asks his adviser Marvin Lucas a simple question: “What do we do now?”

It is a question which could equally have been asked of Sir Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, as his party gathers in Brighton this weekend for its first conference since its outstanding result at the general election in July.

The Lib Dems saw their representation in parliament soar from 15 MPs to 72, allowing them to reclaim from the SNP their position as third-biggest party in the Commons.

With the Tories reduced to a rump of 121 MPs, the result has presented Davey with a golden opportunity to present his party as the true opposition to a Labour government with a huge parliamentary majority.

So far, however, it has sometimes appeared as though the Lib Dems are caught between two stools, unsure whether to attack the Labour government or what remains of the Conservatives.

Polling by Savanta, exclusively shared with HuffPost UK, highlights the party’s dilemma.

It shows that voters believe that with Labour in power, the Lib Dems need to “rediscover their purpose”.

Awkwardly for Davey, the research also reveals that Lib Dem voters are pretty happy with the job Keir Starmer is doing so far as prime minister.

They are the only group, apart from Labour supporters, who give the new PM a positive approval rating. And nearly a third – 30% – say they like Starmer and his policies.

Chris Hopkins, political research director at Savanta told HuffPost UK: “Liberal Democrat voters are broadly pretty happy – with the direction of government, the issues they’re tackling and Keir Starmer himself.

“That’s a problem for Ed Davey and his team, as it means they need to find a balance and ultimately rediscover their purpose, now that they’re holding Labour to account, rather than the Conservatives.

“The Liberal Democrats are clearly in the strongest position they’ve been in some while, and are likely looking forward to party conference.

“Through a mixture of message discipline on the NHS and sewage, they’ve taken down the Blue Wall. But the question now is where next? Do you attempt to make further inroads with a depleted Conservative party, or start focusing your ire at the government – who your voters quite like?”

Separate research by the More in Common think-tank, also seen by HuffPost UK, suggests the Lib Dems have a golden opportunity to do even better at the next election – if they have the courage to grasp it.

Focus groups with Lib Dem voters showed they want the party to be a “competent and distinctive” opposition, pushing Labour for tougher action on climate change and a closer relationship with the EU.

Chris Annous of More in Common said the 72 Lib Dem MPs also need to “establish themselves as community champions” if they want to return to parliament at the next election.

“There is room for pushing for a closer relationship with Europe and a quicker timetable on climate action in a way that is unlikely to backfire either in the Blue Wall or the Liberal Democrats own ‘Yellow Wall’, that now extends from Eastbourne to Exmoor, but can instead help the party establish themselves as a distinctive opposition to Labour,” he said.

“These two issues are popular both with their 2024 voters and those who considered voting Liberal Democrat in 2024.”

Ed Davey carried out a series of stunts during the election campaign.
Ed Davey carried out a series of stunts during the election campaign.

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Wendy Chamberlain, the MP for North East Fife and the Lib Dems’ work and pensions spokesperson, told HuffPost UK that the party is already proving itself to be the opposition.

“It’s quite clear that the Tories have gone into a even greater degree of meltdown since July 4, and their leadership election is going on until November.

“We’ve already demonstrated that we’re an effective opposition. One example is on Labour’s decision to cut winter fuel payments. That doesn’t feel like the change that people voted for.”

A senior Lib Dem source said: “A lot of people voted for us to get rid of the Tories, but if you look at the polling, the top reason was because of our position on the NHS and care, so it’s really important that we continue to campaign on that issue.

“People put their trust in us at the election and now we need to work hard to keep that trust.

“If you look at the seats where we’re now in second place, they are Conservative-facing. The way we think we can defeat more Tories next time is by being a better opposition than them. We’re going to be united and coherent while they tear themselves apart.”

Ed Davey spent the election campaign as if he was on a six-week long stag trip, paddleboarding, surfing, salsa dancing and bungee-jumping his way around the country.

For him and his party, the serious business of holding Labour to account while consigning the Tories to irrelevance starts now.

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Tory Frontbencher’s Attempt To Take Down Labour Over Pensioners’ Winter Turned Into Brutal Own Goal

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Tory frontbencher Helen Whately accidentally attacked the Conservatives’ legacy rather than Labour’s latest policy during an TV appearance today.

Whately, currently the shadow transport secretary, attempted to take down the new government’s plan to restrict winter fuel allowance to just those on pension credit.

The controversial move means 10 million pensioners will no longer receive a payment of up to £300 to help cover their energy bills – and the Tories have repeatedly criticised Labour for it.

Whately tried to follow suit on Wednesday by saying how cold her own constituents are during the winter – even though Labour have only been in power since July.

The MP made the slip-up on BBC Politics Live, when presenter Jo Coburn seemed to unsettle Whately by asking her about the 2017 Conservative manifesto.

The Tory pledges at the time said winter fuel payments would be means-tested, and focused on the least well-off pensioners who are most at risk of fuel poverty, although the Conservatives eventually dropped the plan.

Coburn said: “It’s a little rich coming from Conservatives to say that this is the worst thing that has ever been done politically – to take the winter fuel payment away from better off pensioners.”

Whately, who was a minister in both Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson’s governments, seemed flustered by the remark, and tried to deflect by saying Labour had taken the means-testing to a very low level.

She then said: “There are 18,000 pensioners in my constituency who are losing their winter fuel allowance.

“Some of them have written to me, including one pensioner who only heats one room of their house through the winter and sleeps on their sofa because that’s in the one room that they heat in the winter.

“That pensioner is losing their winter fuel allowance.

“This is what this government is choosing to do, and to be clear it’s a choice.”

But Labour were only elected in July, after 14 years in opposition, and have not led the country through a winter yet.

Whately’s slip-up did not go unnoticed on X, of course, with many eagle-eyed viewers saying her anecdote revealed “more about life under 14 years of the Tories than it does under Labour”.

Her comments drew so much interest on the social media platform that her name even started trending.

Here’s a look at just a few of the posts calling out the former minister…

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Tory MP Helen Whately: “Some pensioners have written me incl. one who only heats 1 room of their house through the winter & sleeps on the sofa because that’s in the 1 room they heat”

Which says more about life under 14 years of the Tories than it does under Labour#PoliticsLive pic.twitter.com/wZzvNdOr6w

— David (@Zero_4) September 11, 2024

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Tory MP Helen Whately: “Some pensioners have written me incl. one who only heats 1 room of their house through the winter & sleeps on the sofa because that’s in the 1 room they heat”

Which says more about life under 14 years of the Tories than it does under Labour#PoliticsLive pic.twitter.com/wZzvNdOr6w

— David (@Zero_4) September 11, 2024

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‘…through the winter…’ says Helen Whately.
Now as much as I don’t agree with what Labour have done with this winter fuel payment, they have been in power since early July. She does realise who was in power for the previous 14 winters? She really is the idiot’s idiot https://t.co/AtAjZfaigK

— Laffs (@neillafferty) September 11, 2024

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‘…through the winter…’ says Helen Whately.
Now as much as I don’t agree with what Labour have done with this winter fuel payment, they have been in power since early July. She does realise who was in power for the previous 14 winters? She really is the idiot’s idiot https://t.co/AtAjZfaigK

— Laffs (@neillafferty) September 11, 2024