Oliver Dowden: Williamson’s messages ‘were not acceptable’
Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden joined Laura Kuenssberg this morning, and was asked to account for a series of irate and expletive-laden messages sent by the Conservative MP Gavin Williamson to the previous Chief Whip Wendy Morton. Williamson, who has since been reappointed to Rishi Sunak’s cabinet, had accused Morton of punishing MPs by not inviting them to Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, and declared his unwillingness to follow the government’s lead. Kuenssberg asked if Sunak had shown good judgement of character in welcoming Williamson back to Whitehall:
Cop 26 ‘made important steps forward’
With the environmental conference Cop27 beginning today in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, Kuenssberg also inquired as to whether the previous Cop 26 had been a success:
‘We’re committed to honouring our 2019 manifesto’
The government’s Autumn Statement will be taking place on 17 November. Sophy Ridge asked Dowden if the government was still committed to their promise to ‘level up’ much of the country, after Dowden’s earlier suggestion that spending was likely to be cut:
Ed Miliband: ‘It is now cheaper to save the world than destroy it’
Shadow Energy Secretary Ed Miliband told Ridge that he believed that the UK should go ‘all in’ on investing in renewable energy, urging the government to reverse its ban on new onshore wind farms:
Cop is not about ‘reparations’
Miliband also defended the Cop conferences against accusations that they were just an excuse for countries to ask for ‘loss and damage’ claims against wealthier countries:
Paul Blomfield: UK should change law on assisted dying
And finally, Ridge asked the Labour MP Paul Blomfield, whose father took his own life after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, about the case for relaxing laws around assisted dying:
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