Sir Mel Stride replaced as shadow chancellor amid Conservatives reshuffle

Andrew Griffith has replaced Sir Mel Stride as shadow chancellor as a part of Conservative chief Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle. Claire Coutinho, beforehand the shadow vitality secretary, will substitute Griffith as shadow enterprise secretary amid the continued shake-up. Badenoch is finishing up a reshuffle of her shadow cupboard earlier than the celebration’s convention in October. Dame…

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Tories would reinstate two-child benefit cap to fund defence, says Badenoch | Conservatives

Tories would reinstate two-child benefit cap to fund defence, says Badenoch | Conservatives

The Conservatives would reinstate the two-child benefit cap and use the financial savings for a wide-ranging spending splurge on defence in what Kemi Badenoch mentioned would be “the biggest peacetime programme of rearmament in our country’s history”. Speaking at a defence convention in London, the Tory chief criticised the federal government for Britain’s “lack of…

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The collapse of consequences: One failure links so many things that are wrong with modern Britain, writes Conservative Party leader KEMI BADENOCH

The collapse of consequences: One failure links so many things that are wrong with modern Britain, writes Conservative Party leader KEMI BADENOCH

We can see it in every single place – from the latest looting by hordes of youngsters, to the explosion in welfare dependency, to the tide of small-boat arrivals that mock our border controls each day. They’re all signs of the identical illness: the collapse of penalties in British life. All of us have been…

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