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FactCheck: Rishi Sunak’s poverty claim explained
“There are 1.7 million fewer people in poverty than in 2010, including hundreds of thousands of children.” That was the claim from Rishi Sunak this week. FactCheck takes a look.
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Senior Tories reject call for Rishi Sunak to resign
“Foolish”, “self-indulgent” and “divisive” – that’s the furious response from Conservative MPs to one of their colleagues who called on Rishi Sunak to resign yesterday.
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‘UK will not hesitate to take further action against Houthis’, says Sunak after strikes
Rishi Sunak has warned that Britain and the United States will not hesitate to take further action against Houthi rebels – to protect against attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The prime minister said the UK was not seeking confrontation, but had acted in self defence. And he said that new sanctions to…
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Rwanda Bill: Sunak expected to overcome second day of rebellion
Rishi Sunak is expecting to face down a second day of rebellion by backbenchers who want him to toughen up his plans to deport migrants to Rwanda. MPs are just voting on a rebel amendment that would give ministers the power to ignore emergency injunctions from the European Court of Human Rights. The rebels say…
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Sunak rocked by Conservative resignations over Rwanda bill
Rishi Sunak has suffered a rebellion by 60 of his backbenchers this evening over his bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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Middle-East tension: Sunak says attacks on Houthi are unrelated to Israel-Gaza conflict
Rishi Sunak has told MPs that last week’s strikes on Houthi infrastructure were unrelated to the conflict between Israel and Gaza. Speaking to a largely sympathetic Commons, he said the US led attacks were carried out in self defence in response to attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
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FactCheck: Sunak asylum backlog claim needs context
Nearly a third of ‘initial asylum decisions’ were withdrawn claims, according to the latest comparable stats.
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Rishi Sunak facing Tory rebellion over Rwanda bill
Rishi Sunak is facing renewed pressure from both sides of his party, as MPs threaten to rebel when the Rwanda bill is voted on next week.
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Sunak announces blanket exoneration for wrongly convicted in Post Office scandal
A new law will wipe out the convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongly convicted of stealing from the Post Office.
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Sunak hints at further tax cuts
Rishi Sunak has denied having significant doubts when he was Chancellor about the government’s policy to send migrants to Rwanda.
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‘Sunak certainly hasn’t put country first’, says Shadow Science and Technology Secretary
We spoke to Peter Kyle, the Shadow Science and Technology Secretary and started by asking him whether Rishi Sunak had spiked Labour’s guns by ruling out a spring election.
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Sunak suggests autumn general election, as Starmer says Labour ready for power
Rishi Sunak has poured a bucket of cold water over speculation he could call a May General Election – claiming instead that his ‘working assumption’ is a vote in the second half of this year.
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Reform UK’s Richard Tice claims Tory MPs ‘terrified’ of his party and urges Sunak to call election
Rishi Sunak is facing more calls from his political opponents to call an election early this year. On his left flank, the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told a campaign rally in Guildford that the Prime Minister should stop “clinging on to power.” From the right, the Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice claimed…
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Home Secretary defends claim that Sunak’s asylum pledge has been met
The government has been accused of massaging the asylum numbers after claiming it’s cleared the backlog of asylum claims, built up before the end of June 2022.
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FactCheck: Cleverly incorrectly claims Sunak asylum pledge has been met
The ‘legacy’ backlog stands at over 4,500.