Shadow work and pensions secretary JonAshworth says his party wants to see 'migration lower than it is', when asked about Labour's record on immigration. Ridge: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
would the last Tory MP to leave the building please turn off the lights. The nonsense, self-destroying crap has to end or our Party dies.These emerging groups, leaks and briefings to the media are helping none of us. All of us already belong to the most successful political grouping ever - It's called the Conservative Party.I don't like leakers, I prefer to say things to peoples face.
It comes as Suella Braverman demands that net figures are drastically reduces, while other ministers call for a balance to ensure there are enough workers to fill key roles in sectors like the NHS and education He said banning all workers coming in would get the numbers down, but that would be a"dangerous" policy - it's all about where ministers choose to"tinker".
Asked if Mr Johnson is not responsible for any wrongdoing at all, Ms Jenkyns says:"I think if anything, Boris has probably been too trusting." Asked about civil servants in the Cabinet Office handing over Boris Johnson's prime ministerial diaries to the police, Ms Jenkyns says:"They should have at least let Boris Johnson know that they had concerns".
But, she says, she does not want to see a change of leader right now and wants to win the next election.Chris Bryant, chair of parliament's standards committee and Labour MP for Rhondda, has told Sophy Ridge on Sunday that it is wrong for MPs to claim back the cost of fines on expenses.claimed hundreds of pounds of driving fines on expensesMr Bryant says the standards committee, which he chairs, has"no power" to investigate rule breaches related to expenses.
Asked first by Trevor Phillips about the Sky News 'doorstep' interview where the former prime minister emphatically denied fresh allegations of lockdown rule-breaking, Mr Bryant says:"The trouble with Boris Johnson is we have heard him deny things in the past which have subsequently turned out not to be true."
He says:"Probably you have not only accidentally or inadvertently misled parliament, you have probably deliberately done so, or certainly allowed the misleading of parliament to stand, and that is a culpable contempt of parliament in my view."Turning to immigration, Trevor Phillips asked shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth about the net migration figures showing that 606,000 more people came to the UK than left in the year to December 2022.
"I think that is utterly hopeless when we know that firms are trying to fill vacancies in this country today."
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