07/01/2025 11:45
The Guardian
Reform UK party leader says comments by billionaire are free speechThere will be two urgent questions in the Commons after 12.30pm. Foreign Office ministers will reply to both; the first is about the situation in Gaza, and the second is about “Hong Kong police offering rewards for the arrests of pro-democracy campaigners including BNOs [British national (overseas) visa holders] resident in the UK”.The Plaid Cymru leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, has strongly criticised former first minister Mark Drakeford for warning that his party will soon face a “day of reckoning” over the Welsh government’s budget.There are no negotiations. It’s Labour’s budget to pass. And I assume they will be busy thinking how they’re going to get it passed, but no negotiations have taken place.We’ve shown in recent years our willingness to get government to do things that otherwise wouldn’t by entering into a cooperation agreement. That came to an end. But now we have Labour putting together its own budget and its responsibility to get it through.That sounds to me like a governing Labour party feeling they are entitled to have their budget passed in whatever form it’s put forward. I don’t believe that that’s how budgets work in parliaments around the world. Continue reading...
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