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Starge suggests that Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is not serious.
Davy asks about US signal leaks. Will PM order an urgent review of the security of information it shares with the US?
Starmer says the UK works with the US every day. He says Davey wants to consider herself rational and serious. He continues:
It is neither liability nor serious to unravel the relationship with the US on defense and security.
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Priority refuses to rule out digital services taxes that have been watered down under pressure from the Trump administration
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is calling for prioritization to ensure that the Digital Services Tax will not be watered down to appease President Trump and Elon Musk.
The priority is that social media laws will take place in the UK. However, he ignores questions about the Digital Services Tax.
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Badenok says that his ancestors cannot guarantee that teachers’ jobs are safe. And she criticizes the government for falling below the academy in the school bill.
Priority says most schools are already academies.
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Badenok asks about the impact of increased national insurance on schools. She says that the school was meant to be compensated, but this hasn’t happened.
Priority says that the schools were failed by the last government.
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Badenok asks why labour banned school action programs launched under the last government.
Starme criticizes the last government record of school behaviour.
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Badenok says if this is true, why is the government considering policies in this area?
Priority says that the majority of schools have effective enforcement policies.
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Priority says that a legal ban on school mobile phones is “completely unnecessary.”
Kemi Badenok says the Prime Minister will provide an “emergency budget.” Even Ed Ball is calling it, she says.
However, she relies on another minister, confusing her simple secretary, the Education Secretary. Why did she reject Tory’s appeal to ban school cell phones?
Priority says, “It’s completely ignorant.” The school is already doing this.
He says that what matters is content on the internet.
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Starmer says the change plan has reduced the NHS wait list for the past five months.
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Kiel Starmer says the spring statement will showcase the government will make the economy even faster.
And tomorrow he will meet President Macron of Paris to discuss plans for Ukraine.
He says that a Bring Back Kids delegation is in the gallery, highlighting the light-form of children from the occupied Ukrainian territories that have been accused of Russia.
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Priority faces Badenoch in PMQS
PMQS will start soon. Rachel Reeves will release a spring statement as soon as it finishes just after 12:30pm.
Here is the list of lawmakers to ask questions.
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Below are two charts from the Resolution Foundation that will help explain the context of the Spring Statement announcement:
Next week, in discussions about how the Prime Minister can meet fiscal rules, or if she should, the key policy challenge remains a disastrous growth performance.
The growth in the first half of the decade is considered to be the weakest of a comparable period of the first century. pic.twitter.com/uvj0ddb4zv
– Resolution Foundation (@resfoundation) March 26, 2025
The UK has only run one current surplus in the last 20 years.
Instead, the government is targeting predicted surplus. This is a much more common (and loose) financial target. pic.twitter.com/lgp25uv9vb
– Resolution Foundation (@resfoundation) March 26, 2025
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Scope criticizes Reeves for his “knee” decision to deepen profit cuts on obstacles
The disability charity scope has denounced what was called the government’s “knee-down” decision to deepen welfare cuts, announced last week. (See 8:33am.) This is from Strategy Director James Taylor.
The government is rushing to further cuts without considering the impact on people with disabilities.
This adds to the billions of pounds cuts, which were the main motivation for welfare reform.
This move will hit people with disabilities even more violently and drive them into poverty.
There must be a better way to reform welfare than moving from one set of knees to another.
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Tory argues that Reeves needs to use “emergency budget” to correct mistakes in workers
Conservatives still call the Spring Statement “an emergency budget” and even believe the date was released weeks ago (i.e. not an emergency measure).
This is what Shadow Chancellor’s Mel Stride said in a statement ahead of the statement at 12:30pm.
Our national security requires a strong economy. However, since Rachel Reeves’ first budget, growth has declined, borrowing has increased, and business confidence has been destroyed.
Labour has broken promises to pensioners in winter fuel payments, as well as farmers and businesses with crippling tax increases that have boosted inflation and interest rates.
The Prime Minister will need to use the emergency budget later today to correct his mistakes and end the war with workers’ businesses.
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Kenny McCaskill elected leader of the Alba Party
Former MP Kenny McCaskill was elected as Alba Party leader as the successor to Alex Salmond. Reports from PA media. Salmondo founded the party after leaving the SNP and his death at a conference held in North Macedonia in October.
Acting leader Mackaskill won the leadership contest with 1,331 votes (52.3%), and the party announced at an event in Edinburgh, beating rival candidate Alba MSP Ash Regan to win 1,212 votes (47.7%).
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Photo: James Manning/PA
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