Jessie Ames Bbc Access

To understand how we got here, you have to look not at the green benches, but at a spreadsheet. The memo, which I have seen in redacted form, originated from a junior analyst in the Office for Budget Responsibility. It suggests that the government’s own growth forecast was inflated by nearly 40% to justify the spending cuts buried in Schedule 5 of the bill.

That is the core of it. The intellectual battle has been lost. The only remaining question is whether the political one will be fought or forfeited. jessie ames bbc

I spoke this morning to a Conservative MP of 12 years, a reliably loyal voice who asked not to be named. “Jessie,” he said, “I have voted with the whip through Partygate, through the lettuce, through everything. But if I vote for this, I am voting to close the A&E in my town. I can’t explain that to a mother waiting six hours for an ambulance.” To understand how we got here, you have

The Prime Minister entered the chamber this morning with the grim composure of a captain who knows the lifeboats are half-empty. The rebellion over the Financial Responsibility and Regional Growth Bill —a dry title for a political firestorm—has not been quelled by promises of pork-barrel spending or whispered threats of lost whip status. As of one hour ago, the government’s working majority stands at an effective zero. That is the core of it

I went to a coffee shop across from Parliament this lunchtime. A nurse in scrubs was staring at her phone, refreshing a news page. “I don’t care who wins,” she told me. “I just need to know if I can pay my rent on the 1st. You lot in the media talk about ‘process.’ I talk about my daughter’s school shoes.”