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Here's number 30 Mark Logan MP

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Boris Johnson has sacked Michael Gove
Wednesday 6 July 2022

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove has been sacked by Boris Johnson.

It comes after Mr Gove indicated he was unhappy with the prime minister staying in his post, Sky News understands.

The prime minister vowed to "keep going" on Wednesday despite the raft of departures, including the exit of his former health secretary Sajid Javid and chancellor Rishi Sunak.
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Well Michelle Donelan didn't last as Education secretary, she's just resigned

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Boris Johnson to resign as prime minister
Thursday 7 July 2022

Boris Johnson will today resign as prime minister as he finally bows to the pressure of swathes of government resignations.

A No 10 source said Mr Johnson had spoken to the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady, and agreed to stand down, with a new Tory leader set to be in place by the party's conference in October.

A separate No 10 spokesman has now said: "The prime minister will make a statement to the country today."

The confirmation came shortly after Mr Johnson's newly appointed Education Secretary Michelle Donelan resigned after just 36 hours in the post, and Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi told the prime minister to "go now".
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UK’s ‘unsustainable’ debt could reach 320% of GDP in 50 years, OBR warns
Thu 7 Jul 2022

Britain’s public finances are on an “unsustainable” long-term path with a debt burden that could more than treble without further tax rises to cover the mounting cost of an ageing population and falling fuel duties, the Treasury’s independent forecaster has warned.

The Office for Budget Responsibility said that if economic shocks continued to hit the public finances, debt was on course to reach almost 320% of annual national income (GDP) in 50 years’ time – up from 96% now – unless successive governments raised revenues to offset rising costs.

“The pressures of an ageing population on spending and the loss of existing motoring taxes in a decarbonising economy leaves public debt on an unsustainable path in the long term,” the OBR said.

In its annual health check of the public finances, the OBR said the government had already spent as much this year – 1.25% of GDP – to help households cope with the cost of living crisis as it had supporting the economy through the 2008 financial crisis.

If energy prices remained high over the next year and ministers continued extending this support, government borrowing would surge by £40bn in 2023-24.
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Collapse of British Conservativism Will Create a Vacuum that Must Be Filled
Thursday 7 July 2022

Over the past 48 hours, the British Government has functionally collapsed. Following 60 resignations and counting of Government ministers and aides, culminating in the news that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will resign as Leader of the Conservative Party, the business of Government itself has virtually ground to a halt.

The collapse of Johnson’s Government comes at a time of intensifying and converging global and national crises: inflation, the cost of living crisis, war in Ukraine, impending recession, record rates of poverty and inequality, energy shortages, a global food crisis and climate catastrophe.

It is no accident that this political collapse comes at a time of peak complexity. We are seeing in real-time how deeply unfit to govern is the nexus of power that currently runs the UK.

I’ve written in these pages about the idea of ‘Energy Return on Investment’, a simple but powerful ratio which measures the amount of energy we use, to get energy out. The more we need to put in, the less we are getting out in the end, and the less we then have to devote to wider society and the economy.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/07/07/the- ... be-filled/

With the Conservatives likely to continue their tactics of division and distraction, opposition parties must step up with a new vision, says Nafeez Ahmed
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