About a quarter of a million people queued for up to 17 hours to see the Queen’s coffin as it lay in state at Westminster Hall, Michelle Donelan, the culture secretary, said this morning.
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She also refused to say how much the government spent staging the state funeral for the Queen, but she said “the British public would argue that that was money well spent”.
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My colleague Tobi Thomas has the story here.
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In her first PMQs as prime minister, Liz Truss said that under her premiership there would be “tweaks” to the online safety bill to ensure it did more to protect free speech. The bill is currently at report stage in the House of Commons, which means MPs have already spent many hours debating it, but the government could still table amendments in the Commons or in the House of Lords.
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In her interviews this morning Michelle Donelan, the new culture secretary, claimed that the changes proposed by Truss would not affect the measures in the bill protecting children. They would only relate to ensuring “we’ve got the balance right in terms of free speech in relation to adults”, she said.
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She told the Today programme:
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I’m not going to announce today exactly how we’ll be changing [the bill] because the due process will be to do that in parliament.
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But that element is in relation to adults. The bits in relation to children and online safety will not be changing. And that is the overarching objective of the bill, and why we put it in our manifesto.
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But Donelan did not explain how the provisions in the bill could be made less restrictive for adults without the ability of children to access harmful material also being affected. Social media companies have been notoriously bad at enforcing age controls.
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The UK is already the second largest military donor to Ukraine, committing £2.3bn in 2022. We have trained 27,000 members of the Ukrainian armed forces since 2015, and in the last year we have provided hundreds of rockets, five air defence systems, 120 armoured vehicles and over 200,000 pieces of non-lethal military equipment.
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Last week saw the largest commercial road move of ammunition since the second world war as tens of thousands more rounds of UK-donated artillery ammunition went to the front lines in Ukraine.
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The precise nature of UK military support in 2023 will be determined based on the needs of the armed forces of Ukraine. However, it is expected to include equipment like the multiple launch rocket system, provided to Ukraine by the UK and others, which has been decisive in allowing Ukraine to re-gain over 3,000 square kilometres of territory in recent days.
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Good morning. As my colleague Pippa Crerar reports, it turns out Barack Obama was right after all. When it comes to a free trade deal with the US, post-Brexit Britain really is at the back of the queue.
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Liz Truss admitted that she did not expect talks on a free trade deal with the US to start “in the short to medium term” while speaking to reporters last night on her plane over to New York, where she is attending the United Nations general assembly. No one who has followed progress towards the “massive” free trade deal once promised will be surprised by the substance of what Truss said; it has been clear since Joe Biden won the US presidential election that for the time being the deal is all but dead. But the fact that Truss was prepared to admit this quite openly is notable. Last year, on a similar trip to the US, Boris Johnson was more evasive.
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In answering the question candidly, Truss was also burying a commitment in the Conservative party’s 2019 manifesto, which said:
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Our goals for British trade are accordingly ambitious. We aim to have 80 per cent of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within the next three years, starting with the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
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The Truss comment also marks the return of No 10 as a news-generation machine. After the death of the Queen, all government business was put on hold and even the sources who give journalists unattributable briefings more or less clammed up. But now political news is back. We will be hearing more from Truss later today, and this morning Michelle Donelan, the new culture secretary, has done a full interview round. I will summarise the key points shortly.
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Labour opposed Brexit in 2016, but under Keir Starmer it is now presenting itself as the party that would “make Brexit work”, and it now routinely attacks the Tories for failing to implement Brexit properly. Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow international trade secretary, says Truss’s admission that the US free trade deal won’t happen is “terrible news” for the economy. He says:
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The admission that there is no prospect of a trade deal with the USA is terrible news for the UK economy – it is costing billions in lost potential trade opportunities and holding back growth.
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There is no doubt that the blame for this mess lies at the door of the prime minister, who tarnished the UK’s international reputation as foreign and international trade secretary. This is an embarrassment for Liz Truss.
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The Conservative manifesto promised a trade deal with the United States by the end of this year, now this has no chance of being delivered.
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Only the fresh start a Labour government can provide will rebuild these international relationships and run a trade policy focused on growth.
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Parliament is not sitting today. Here is the agenda.
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Lunchtime (UK time): Liz Truss is expected to record interviews in New York, where she is in a visit to attend the United Nations general assembly.
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Around 4pm (UK time): Truss is due to hold a meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the French president.
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Also, at some point today Brandon Lewis, the new justice secretary, is due to hold a meeting with the Criminal Bar Association to discuss the barristers’ strike.
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I try to monitor the comments below the line (BTL) but it is impossible to read them all. If you have a direct question, do include “Andrew” in it somewhere and I’m more likely to find it. I do try to answer questions, and if they are of general interest, I will post the question and reply above the line (ATL), although I can’t promise to do this for everyone.
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If you want to attract my attention quickly, it is probably better to use Twitter. I’m on @AndrewSparrow.
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Alternatively, you can email me at [email protected]
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About a quarter of a million people queued for up to 17 hours to see the Queen’s coffin as it lay in state at Westminster Hall, Michelle Donelan, the culture secretary, said this morning.
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She also refused to say how much the government spent staging the state funeral for the Queen, but she said “the British public would argue that that was money well spent”.
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My colleague Tobi Thomas has the story here.
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In her first PMQs as prime minister, Liz Truss said that under her premiership there would be “tweaks” to the online safety bill to ensure it did more to protect free speech. The bill is currently at report stage in the House of Commons, which means MPs have already spent many hours debating it, but the government could still table amendments in the Commons or in the House of Lords.
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In her interviews this morning Michelle Donelan, the new culture secretary, claimed that the changes proposed by Truss would not affect the measures in the bill protecting children. They would only relate to ensuring “we’ve got the balance right in terms of free speech in relation to adults”, she said.
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She told the Today programme:
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I’m not going to announce today exactly how we’ll be changing [the bill] because the due process will be to do that in parliament.
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But that element is in relation to adults. The bits in relation to children and online safety will not be changing. And that is the overarching objective of the bill, and why we put it in our manifesto.
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But Donelan did not explain how the provisions in the bill could be made less restrictive for adults without the ability of children to access harmful material also being affected. Social media companies have been notoriously bad at enforcing age controls.
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Ministers are reviewing the decisions to privatise Channel 4 and to scrap the BBC licence fee, Michelle Donelan, the new culture secretary, has said. My colleague Jessica Elgot has the story here.
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Liz Truss will address the UN general assembly on Thursday. In another item of news to emerge from her trip overnight, No 10 has said she will promise that UK military aid to Ukraine in 2023 will match, or exceed, the military aid offered this year. In its news release Downing Street says:
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The UK is already the second largest military donor to Ukraine, committing £2.3bn in 2022. We have trained 27,000 members of the Ukrainian armed forces since 2015, and in the last year we have provided hundreds of rockets, five air defence systems, 120 armoured vehicles and over 200,000 pieces of non-lethal military equipment.
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Last week saw the largest commercial road move of ammunition since the second world war as tens of thousands more rounds of UK-donated artillery ammunition went to the front lines in Ukraine.
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The precise nature of UK military support in 2023 will be determined based on the needs of the armed forces of Ukraine. However, it is expected to include equipment like the multiple launch rocket system, provided to Ukraine by the UK and others, which has been decisive in allowing Ukraine to re-gain over 3,000 square kilometres of territory in recent days.
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Good morning. As my colleague Pippa Crerar reports, it turns out Barack Obama was right after all. When it comes to a free trade deal with the US, post-Brexit Britain really is at the back of the queue.
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Liz Truss admitted that she did not expect talks on a free trade deal with the US to start “in the short to medium term” while speaking to reporters last night on her plane over to New York, where she is attending the United Nations general assembly. No one who has followed progress towards the “massive” free trade deal once promised will be surprised by the substance of what Truss said; it has been clear since Joe Biden won the US presidential election that for the time being the deal is all but dead. But the fact that Truss was prepared to admit this quite openly is notable. Last year, on a similar trip to the US, Boris Johnson was more evasive.
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In answering the question candidly, Truss was also burying a commitment in the Conservative party’s 2019 manifesto, which said:
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Our goals for British trade are accordingly ambitious. We aim to have 80 per cent of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within the next three years, starting with the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
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The Truss comment also marks the return of No 10 as a news-generation machine. After the death of the Queen, all government business was put on hold and even the sources who give journalists unattributable briefings more or less clammed up. But now political news is back. We will be hearing more from Truss later today, and this morning Michelle Donelan, the new culture secretary, has done a full interview round. I will summarise the key points shortly.
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Labour opposed Brexit in 2016, but under Keir Starmer it is now presenting itself as the party that would “make Brexit work”, and it now routinely attacks the Tories for failing to implement Brexit properly. Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow international trade secretary, says Truss’s admission that the US free trade deal won’t happen is “terrible news” for the economy. He says:
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The admission that there is no prospect of a trade deal with the USA is terrible news for the UK economy – it is costing billions in lost potential trade opportunities and holding back growth.
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There is no doubt that the blame for this mess lies at the door of the prime minister, who tarnished the UK’s international reputation as foreign and international trade secretary. This is an embarrassment for Liz Truss.
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The Conservative manifesto promised a trade deal with the United States by the end of this year, now this has no chance of being delivered.
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Only the fresh start a Labour government can provide will rebuild these international relationships and run a trade policy focused on growth.
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Parliament is not sitting today. Here is the agenda.
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Lunchtime (UK time): Liz Truss is expected to record interviews in New York, where she is in a visit to attend the United Nations general assembly.
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Around 4pm (UK time): Truss is due to hold a meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the French president.
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Also, at some point today Brandon Lewis, the new justice secretary, is due to hold a meeting with the Criminal Bar Association to discuss the barristers’ strike.
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Global rettferdighet nå, som kampanjer for en mer rettferdig global økonomi, har ønsket nyheten velkommen om at det ikke vil være noen frihandelsavtale mellom Storbritannia og USA i løpet av de neste årene. Jean Blaylock, dens handelskampanjesjef, sa:
Det er en virkelig lettelse at det ikke er noen umiddelbare utsikter til en handelsavtale mellom USA og Storbritannia, ettersom Liz Truss har vist få tegn på at hun kunne forhandle seg ut av en klorert kyllingboks.
Erfaringen fra handelsavtalen i Australia er at Truss er villig til å ofre nesten alt hun blir bedt om å ofre for å få en avtale – og matstandarder, miljøvern og arbeidsrettigheter lider som et resultat.
Rundt 250 000 mennesker sto i kø for å se dronningens kiste i London, sier kultursekretær Michelle Donelan
Omtrent en kvart million mennesker i kø i opptil 17 timer å se dronningens kiste slik den lå i tilstanden i Westminster Hall, Michelle Donelan, sa kultursekretæren i morges.
Hun nektet også å si hvor mye regjeringen brukte på å arrangere statsbegravelsen for dronningen, men hun sa at “den britiske offentligheten ville hevde at det var vel anvendte penger”.
Min kollega Tobi Thomas har historien her.
Liberaldemokratene sier at Liz Truss personlig har skylden for at Storbritannia ikke har inngått en handelsavtale med USA (se 9.44) fordi hun pleide å være internasjonal handelssekretær, og deretter utenrikssekretær. I en uttalelse Layla Moranpartiets utenrikstalsmann, sa:
Dette er det siste brutte løftet om handel fra Liz Truss og de konservative. Bedrifter opp og ned i landet er viklet inn i byråkrati, bønder er solgt nedover elva, og nå viser det seg at en avtale med en av våre største samarbeidspartnere ikke en gang er på bordet.
Liz Truss sitt tøffe diplomati over Nord-Irland-protokollen har blitt en viktig veisperring for å få i gang denne viktige handelsavtalen.
Ethvert kompetent politisk parti ville ha sørget for at handelen og deretter utenrikssekretæren som er ansvarlig for denne serien av feil, ble holdt ansvarlig. I stedet har Høyre gjort henne til statsminister.
Kultursekretær hevder “justeringer” for å gjøre nettsikkerhetsregningen mindre restriktiv vil kun gjelde voksne, ikke barn
I sine første PMQs som statsminister sa Liz Truss at under hennes premierskap ville det være det “justeringer” til nettsikkerhetsregningen for å sikre at den gjorde mer for å beskytte ytringsfriheten. Lovforslaget er for tiden på rapportstadiet i Underhuset, noe som betyr at parlamentsmedlemmer allerede har brukt mange timer på å diskutere det, men regjeringen kan fortsatt legge frem endringer i Underhuset eller i Overhuset.
I intervjuene hennes i morges Michelle Donelan, den nye kultursekretæren, hevdet at endringene Truss foreslår ikke ville påvirke tiltakene i lovforslaget som beskytter barn. De ville bare forholde seg til å sikre “vi har balansen rett når det gjelder ytringsfrihet i forhold til voksne”, sa hun.
Hun sa til Today-programmet:
Jeg kommer ikke til å kunngjøre i dag nøyaktig hvordan vi skal endre oss [the bill] fordi den rettferdige prosessen vil være å gjøre det i parlamentet.
Men det elementet er i forhold til voksne. Bitene i forhold til barn og nettsikkerhet vil ikke endre seg. Og det er det overordnede målet med lovforslaget, og hvorfor vi legger det inn i vårt manifest.
Men Donelan forklarte ikke hvordan bestemmelsene i lovforslaget kunne gjøres mindre restriktive for voksne uten at barnas mulighet til å få tilgang til skadelig materiale også påvirkes. Sosiale medieselskaper har vært notorisk dårlige til å håndheve alderskontroll.
Ministre for å vurdere Channel 4-privatisering og opphugging av BBCs lisensavgift
Ministre vurderer beslutningene om å privatisere Channel 4 og å skrote BBC lisensavgift, Michelle Donelan, har den nye kultursekretæren sagt. Min kollega Jessica Elgot har historien her.
Truss sier at britisk militærhjelp til Ukraina i 2023 vil matche, eller overgå, militærhjelp som tilbys i år
Liz Truss skal tale i FNs generalforsamling torsdag. I en annen nyhet som kommer fra reisen hennes over natten, har nr. 10 sagt at hun vil love at britisk militærhjelp til Ukraina i 2023 vil matche, eller overgå, militærhjelpen som tilbys i år. I sin nyhetsmelding Downing Street sier:
Storbritannia er allerede den nest største militære giveren til Ukraina, og forplikter seg til 2,3 milliarder pund i 2022. Vi har trent 27 000 medlemmer av de ukrainske væpnede styrkene siden 2015, og det siste året har vi levert hundrevis av raketter, fem luftvernsystemer, 120 pansrede kjøretøy og over 200 000 deler av ikke-dødelig militært utstyr.
I forrige uke ble det største kommersielle veiflyttingen av ammunisjon siden andre verdenskrig, da flere titusener runder med britisk donert artilleriammunisjon gikk til frontlinjene i Ukraina.
Den nøyaktige karakteren av britisk militærstøtte i 2023 vil bli bestemt basert på behovene til de væpnede styrkene i Ukraina. Det forventes imidlertid å inkludere utstyr som fleroppskytingsrakettsystemet, levert til Ukraina av Storbritannia og andre, som har vært avgjørende for å la Ukraina gjenvinne over 3000 kvadratkilometer med territorium de siste dagene.
Trusss opptakssamtaler om handelsavtale med USA har blitt skrinlagt er “forferdelige nyheter for Storbritannias økonomi”, sier Labour
God morgen. Som min kollega Pippa Crerar melder, viser det seg Barack Obama hadde tross alt rett. Når det gjelder en frihandelsavtale med USA, er Storbritannia etter Brexit virkelig bakerst i køen.
Liz Truss innrømmet at hun ikke forventet at samtaler om en frihandelsavtale med USA skulle starte «på kort til mellomlang sikt» mens hun snakket med journalister i går kveld på flyet hennes over til New York, hvor hun deltar på FNs generalforsamling. Ingen som har fulgt fremgangen mot den «massive» frihandelsavtalen som en gang ble lovet vil bli overrasket over innholdet i det Truss sa; det har vært klart siden Joe Biden vant det amerikanske presidentvalget at avtalen foreløpig er nesten død. Men det faktum at Truss var villig til å innrømme dette ganske åpent er bemerkelsesverdig. I fjor, på en lignende reise til USA, Boris Johnson var mer unnvikende.
Ved å svare åpent på spørsmålet begravde Truss også en forpliktelse i det konservative partiets manifest fra 2019, som sa:
Våre mål for britisk handel er derfor ambisiøse. Vi har som mål å ha 80 prosent av handelen i Storbritannia dekket av frihandelsavtaler i løpet av de neste tre årene, med start i USA, Australia, New Zealand og Japan.
Truss-kommentaren markerer også returen av No 10 som en nyhetsgenerasjonsmaskin. Etter Dronningens død ble all statlig virksomhet satt på vent og til og med kildene som gir journalister uhensiktsmessige orienteringer, er mer eller mindre kranglete. Men nå er politiske nyheter tilbake. Vi kommer til å høre mer fra Truss senere i dag, og i formiddag har Michelle Donelan, den nye kultursekretæren, gjort en full intervjurunde. Jeg skal kort oppsummere hovedpunktene.
Labour motsatte seg Brexit i 2016, men under Keir Starmer presenterer det seg nå som partiet som ville “få Brexit til å fungere”, og det angriper nå rutinemessig Tories for ikke å implementere Brexit ordentlig. Nick Thomas-Symonds, skyggen internasjonal handelssekretær, sier Truss innrømmelse av at den amerikanske frihandelsavtalen ikke vil skje er “forferdelige nyheter” for økonomien. Han sier:
Innrømmelsen om at det ikke er utsikter til en handelsavtale med USA er forferdelige nyheter for den britiske økonomien – det koster milliarder i tapte potensielle handelsmuligheter og holder tilbake veksten.
Det er ingen tvil om at skylden for dette rotet ligger på døra til statsministeren, som sverte Storbritannias internasjonale rykte som utenriks- og internasjonal handelssekretær. Dette er en forlegenhet for Liz Truss.
Det konservative manifestet lovet en handelsavtale med USA innen utgangen av dette året, nå har dette ingen sjanse til å bli levert.
Bare den nye starten en Labour-regjering kan gi vil gjenoppbygge disse internasjonale relasjonene og føre en handelspolitikk fokusert på vekst.
Stortinget sitter ikke i dag. Her er agendaen.
Lunsjtid (britisk tid): Liz Truss forventes å ta opp intervjuer i New York, hvor hun er på besøk for å delta på FNs generalforsamling.
Rundt 16.00 (britisk tid): Truss skal holde et møte med Emmanuel Macron, den franske presidenten.
På et tidspunkt i dag skal Brandon Lewis, den nye justissekretæren, også holde et møte med Criminal Bar Association for å diskutere advokatstreiken.
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