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They're going out to consultation on that. :smile:

An added reason would be the reduced hours of operation of the 310.

When it suits him!

My money's on Farage standing up in Parliament and announcing that Ms Braverman is now the Reform MP for wherever, sitting cosily together and both beaming. 'Suella Braverman defection' is right at the top on Google.

They should have retained it and made it clear it was to be counted as taxable income imo, thus ensuring the proportion of pensioners not quite poor enough to claim Pension Credit still got something worth having. There are, of course, Cold Weather payments available in addition in the case of...

They might well want a better one than the RDG, given it makes the CBI look like the most stunningly innovative and clearsighted body in Britain! :lol:

Such cases have been problematic for years, and Private Eye has been instrumental in highlighting some of them. For some reason, many are held at Southwark Crown Court, handy for the City I guess when the Old Bailey's unavailable. I'd hate to be cynical and suggest the judge might have known...

The passes are issued by travel concessionary authorities (TCAs) which are, in effect, local authorities, who may add extra benefits for their localities to the bare bones of the scheme. How they decide to reimburse the bus operators is up to them, within the wording of the relevant act, and...

Can't see why there should be, though any Tory MP can only nominate one candidate: it's fairly meaningless trying to read anything into it, any more than Margaret Beckett or Sadiq Khan having nominated Corbyn as Labour leader when they were MPs.

I did say directly. The government neither issues bus passes nor deals with recompensing the bus companies for their use. How the accounting of the £880m is dealt with I don't know, but I wouldn't think it's on a Chancellor's radar. 1722274397 A bit like the Freedom Pass in London then, but the...

Short answer - it depends on their job description! Seriously, it'll vary enormously between bus companies and in more and more cases that company is not a ''free agent'' in the traditional sense, being contracted to a higher authority which will dictate the terms in no uncertain fashion. It has...

It sees itself as ''the paper of record'', which may sound pompous but is a reflection of the position it's held for the majority of the two and a bit centuries it's existed. Now, whether you regard that as ''pro-establishment'' is a matter of opinion. but I'd agree it veers towards that stance...

Now that Braverman can't get the necessary signatures (despite her version of non-events) there's a possibility that no-one worse than Truss might emerge, a very low bar admittedly.

I think it's very likely too. Penny Morduant not holding her seat gives Badenoch a straight run imo.

In one sense (only) I hope that's true, because I can't see Trump's appearances, utterances and views attracting more than a few extra votes for him, whereas it's more than possible that his increasingly deranged and deluded spewings of verbiage will actually persuade many more that he is now...

I think it's fairly certain now that 6 Tory MPs will contest the party leadership, including Badenoch, perhaps the favourite, but excluding Bravernan. Mel Stride could be described as the Jeremy Corbyn of the piece, in that many of those nominating him have no intention of supporting him in the...

Untrue! It came out for Labour in a leader prior to the Election, as it last had in 2005. I find no Tory bias in its reporting, otherwise I wouldn't have been reading it these last fifty years!

Self-service, more like. Fill your boots! ;)

Must have been a Durham speciality. :smile:

I agree with all of that.