The Title
What is happening?
Rachel Reeves’ October Budget – is it really as bad as it seems?
September 27, 2024
The topic The Facts The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves appeared at the Labour Party conference earlier in the week in and gave a speech arguably more important than that of the prime ministers. Headline-worthy comments such as no return to austerity – a word now closely linked with the 14-year Conservative rule, made a splash … but what was really uncovered in the chancellor’s speech? Below we have three centre-left business newspapers that offer up
What are the facts?
Perspective
- Twenty fines will be issued as part of the police inquiry into Downing Street parties that broke Covid rules.
- Met police will not be saying who is fined or which events the fixed penalty notices relate to.
- Downing Street has said before that it would confirm if the prime minister was facing a fine.
- Fixed penalty notices are a sanction for breaking the law, and mean a fine, which needs to be paid within 28 days, or contested.
- The fines mean the PM misled the House of Commons in December – not known if he did it intentionally or not.
Boris 'proven' liar
The Guardian says the Shadow Minister said the fines prove PM is a liar - and the paper agrees with the minister.
No 10 'refuses' to say if PM will quit
The Independent claims No 10 is refusing to say if Boris will quit if he is fined - No 10 have confirmed they will make it punlic knowlegde if the PM is fined.
PM doesn't know if he'll be amongst first fined
The Times headline is rather misleading - as it implies the PM will be amongst those fined eventually even if he's not in the first 20 people to be fined.
PM 'not among' those fined
The Sun claims the PM isn't among those being fined today - the paper says Downing Street today confirmed the PM has not been given a fixed penalty notice.
Daily Express -Yes PM, we all want to draw a line under partygate
Daily Express -Yes PM, we all want to draw a line under partygate
The Sun - Cops probe partygate - ello, ello, ello Bojo
The Sun - Cops probe partygate - ello, ello, ello Bojo The Sun - Cops probe partygate - ello, ello, ello Bojo
Daily Express - Enough Boris! You must end ‘partygate’ farce now
Daily Express - Enough Boris! You must end ‘partygate’ farce now
No 10 Partygate & 72% of Brits want Prince Andrew stripped of title
No 10 Partygate & 72% of Brits want Prince Andrew stripped of title
