Coffey says Boris Johnson demonstrates leadership in the UK and across the world.
The Mayor of Great Manchester says “Nobody in my position should ever criticise people for trying to protect their incomes in a cost of living crisis”.
The Work and Pensions Secretary says that “to the best of her knowledge” the Prime Minister was unaware of concerns about Pincher’s behaviour.
The Prime Minister and the Chancellor issue joint pledge to cut business tax and reduce cost of living | They are accused of being ‘at war with the Cabinet’ over tax cuts | Johnson is said to have ‘known Pincher faced lurid allegations two years before’ appointing him to senior post
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
The Prime Minister commits to boosting UK defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030, and will push NATO allies to match | Number 10 ‘plans VAT cut to ease pain of rising prices’ | Johnson refuses three times to rule out an early election | Pincher resigns as deputy Chief Whip after ‘groping two men’ and ‘drinking too much’ at Carlton Club event
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Johnson calls on Nato to increase defence budgets despite breaking own pledge | Prime Minister faces ‘kangaroo court’ over inquiry into partygate ‘lies’, No 10 fears | ‘Ruthlessly organised’ Tory rebels plot 1922 takeover to oust Johnson | Food import tariffs will be cut to ease cost of living squeeze
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition argued “a million more people will be using food banks” by 2030.
The Prime Minister calls on NATO to increase defence budgets to fight Putin | Wallace urges boost to military spending | Truss says Britain should send weapons to Taiwan
Government wins Commons vote on bill to rip up Northern Ireland protocol | Three Red Wall Conservatives ‘in talks to defect to Labour’ | Prime Minister insists he has ‘new mandate’ to lead Conservatives | Johnson and Sunak ‘will reject Tory demands for early tax cut’
Plus: The Cabinet Office Minister on the proper limits of the Bank of England’s independence.
PM hails ‘le bromance’ as he agrees an Anglo-French summit with Macron | Truss: We have a “duty” to fix the NI Protocol | Johnson claims there is “no point” giving public sector workers a big pay rise
“It would not be responsible opposition if I suggested yes to every strike,” the Shadow Foreign Secretary adds.
But Lewis also insists that the Conservatives “are a party of free trade” and will “work within international law.”