Boris Johnson information – dwell: Channel 4 privatisation ‘pink meat to right-wing voters’ as Labour stretch ballot lead over Tories

Overseas secretary Liz Truss stated Volodymyr Zelensky had delivered an “essential handle” on the UN Safety Council concerning the atrocities in Bucha.

“The UK is utilizing our presidency of the Council to carry Russia to account,” she stated.

“We won’t relaxation till the perpetrators are dropped at justice.”

In his handle the Ukrainian president accused Russia of committing the “most horrible conflict crimes” for the reason that Second World Conflict as he referred to as for trials akin to these held after the defeat of the Nazis.

Mr Zelensky accused Vladimir Putin’s forces of making “mass hunger” and taking pictures and raping civilians.

The Authorities expects “plenty of curiosity from all over the world” in its plans to promote Channel 4, a minister has stated.

Within the Lords, Labour peer Lord Dubs requested: “If the Authorities insists on pursing this coverage, what safeguards will there be towards a overseas firm shopping for Channel 4 and there shall be yet one more of our main media owned by individuals exterior this nation?”

Tradition minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay replied: “Just like the sale of any Authorities asset, the sale of Channel 4 would want to satisfy a cautious evaluation course of to make sure worth for cash for the taxpayer. Additional element shall be set out within the white paper to handle that.”

To groans from friends, he added: “We count on plenty of curiosity from all over the world in Channel 4.”

Conservative former minister Lord Deben requested: “If a former constituent got here as much as me on the street and stated Lord Deben, given Covid, the disastrous Brexit, the European conflict, the price of residing disaster, why has the Authorities thought it pressing to deliver ahead one thing for which there isn’t any public demand, and actual opposition throughout the Home?”

Lord Parkinson replied that not all constituents would “phrase it like that”, including: “The dangers of doing nothing are to go away Channel 4 reliant on linear promoting, presently 74% of its revenue comes from linear promoting which is part of the broadcasting panorama which is altering quickly, attempting to compete with the likes of Netflix which spent £9.2 billion on authentic content material in 2019 in comparison with £2.1 billion from the entire UJK’s public service broadcasters. We need to guarantee that Channel 4 is match for the long run so it will probably proceed to thrive and flourish.”

My colleague Adam Forrest has written about among the backlash from senior Tories to the federal government’s proposal to promote Channel 4.

The Inexperienced Occasion has put its plans to insulate properties on the centre of its native election marketing campaign, touting the coverage as a response to the price of residing disaster.

Co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay on Tuesday stated Greens in native authorities had been main on insulation and that their strategy would preserve individuals heat and lower payments.

The occasion factors to the work of Inexperienced-led Lewes District Council, which is working with six different native authorities to retrofit 40,000 council properties and lower power payments.

Jon Stone has the small print.

Overseas secretary Liz Truss vowed to push Russia’s economic system “again into the Soviet period”, as she urged European allies to go additional on sanctions and finish dependence on Moscow’s oil and fuel.

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The West should guarantee Ukraine doesn’t lose the conflict, Conservative former chief Sir Iain Duncan Smith has stated.

In a speech on the threats posed to the free world by dictatorial regimes, together with China and Russia, hosted by the Heritage Basis, senior Conservative MP Sir Iain argued that for the reason that ending of the Chilly Conflict, there was “each motive to doubt the West’s resolve”.

He stated: “They have to win and we should assist them do it. What defines profitable the conflict is way more tough however they mustn’t now lose.

“Sadly, I think as Putin heads east it is going to turn out to be a protracted course of, a conflict of attrition. However we should keep the course.”

The enterprise secretary says fracking isn’t the reply to the UK’s power disaster, as he orders a quickfire evaluation into the hazard of earthquakes.

The British Geological Survey will examine whether or not the dangers have altered for the reason that authorities was pressured to slap a moratorium on drilling for shale fuel in 2019.

However Kwasi Kwarteng made clear his conflict with Tory MPs demanding the ban is lifted, saying “the pause will stay in place” until the scientific proof has modified.

Our deputy politics editor Rob Merrick stories:

If the federal government is to get its method, it must work onerous to guarantee MPs that jobs – particularly these exterior of London – will by some means be protected in the course of the course of, writes Adam Forrest.

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The Authorities’s LGBT enterprise champion, Iain Anderson, has resigned in a letter to Boris Johnson, criticising the “deeply damaging” transfer to exclude trans individuals from safety from conversion remedy.

Mr Anderson wrote: “It has been the honour of my life to function the UKs first-ever LGBT+ enterprise champion. Nonetheless, I really feel I’ve no selection however to tender my resignation from this function.

“I do that with a really heavy coronary heart. As a younger homosexual man I lived by worry and oppression below the backdrop of Part 28. I may by no means have dreamt then {that a} authorities – any authorities -would appoint an LGBT+ champion later in my lifetime.

“Nonetheless the latest leaking of a plan to drop the Authorities’s flagship laws defending LGBT+ individuals from conversion remedy was devastating. Conversion remedy is abhorrent.

“Solely hours later to see this plan retracted however briefing happen that trans individuals can be excluded from the laws and due to this fact not have the identical speedy protections from this observe was deeply damaging to my work.”

Oleksiy Goncharenko, a Ukrainian MP representing Odesa, stated his nation’s armed forces want weapons that may assist defend towards Russian air and battleship assaults.

Chatting with BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme, he stated: “We want air defence, plane – that’s crucial.

“We additionally want anti-ship missiles – we’re grateful of the UK Authorities for Harpoons, however we want extra.”

The politician stated he thought it was Moscow’s mission to take the south of the nation and lower Ukraine off from the Black Sea.

He added: “They nonetheless need to assault Odesa, to take Odesa, to chop Ukraine from the ocean and to go to the border of the European Union, as a result of Romania is already there – and (there are) Russians in Transnistria, an occupied a part of the Moldovan republic.

“That’s their strategic intention to go there. For the second, they’re unsuccessful however they may attempt once more.”

Oleksiy Goncharenko, a Ukrainian MP representing Odesa, stated his nation’s armed forces want weapons that may assist defend towards Russian air and battleship assaults.

Reactivating his centrist base and reconnecting with ‘left behind’ voters shall be very important if the success of ‘Macronisme’ is to outlive Macron himself, writes Vince Cable

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