Brandon Lewis – ‘We all have responsibility’ for historic defeat
Thursday saw a double defeat for the Conservatives that will not be forgotten any time soon. In Tiverton and Honiton, the Liberal Democrats managed to overturn a majority of over 24,000 votes, making it the biggest by-election defeat in British history. However, even that does not seem to have dampened the Prime Minister’s spirits, and he has claimed to have his sights already set on a third term in office. Sophie Raworth asked the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis about whether this was a realistic goal:
‘We are getting on’ with cutting taxes
Raworth raised a column written in the Sunday Telegraph by the former Brexit Secretary David Davis, arguing that the government needed to implement tax cuts sooner rather than later:
‘I’m confident… we will see people move to Rwanda’
On Sky News, Trevor Phillips also interviewed Lewis, who bought up the government’s Rwanda asylum plan, which has so far failed to get off the ground:
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