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Badenoch privately defended flexible working before publicly opposing it | Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch defended legislation introducing the right to flexible work in a conversation with the businessman James Dyson, despite being outspoken in her opposition to the measures during the Conservative leadership contest.
Minutes of a meeting during her time as business secretary last June, seen by the Guardian, show the pair discussed the Tory government’s plans for flexible working laws, with Dyson raising concerns about the impact they would have on his business.
After the meeting, Badenoch ordered a review of the impact of the flexible working bill, which gave workers the right to ask for flexible working. The bill itself had already passed and became law the following month.
The documents show that during the meeting Badenoch mounted a defence of the bill and told Dyson that flexible working “goes beyond working from home, such as the ability to work compressed hours”. “[The] bill seeks to allow employees to request these from day one of employment not mandate companies into agreement,” she said.
Dyson, the vacuum cleaner entrepreneur, said the bill “would cause significant issues for Dyson”, as he requires all Dyson employees to be in the office, and “the bill makes it hard for Dyson to mandate this, additional HR requirements.”.
The document, released under freedom of information law, states that Dyson told Badenoch there was “no need to legislate on this matter”. It then notes: “SoS [secretary of state] would like to review this bill and the impacts on companies. PO [private office] to commission a one pager.” Such a document would be likely to include an overview of the impact of the law on businesses.
It was a 2019 Conservative manifesto commitment to give workers the right to request flexible working from day one of a new job. But Badenoch has since been a vocal opponent of flexible working – as well as making the argument that small businesses already bear too much burden for rights such as maternity pay and the minimum wage.
She said in September: “I find it extraordinary that Labour are scraping the policy barrel here to find more ways of flexible working when actually we need to get more people into the workplace. They are not learning, they’re not getting the skills at the same rate they used to, which is one of the challenges of working from home.”
Badenoch told TalkTV she supported home working “when it makes sense, but it shouldn’t necessarily be the default. What is extraordinary is that Labour have had 14 years to think about what they want to do with the economy. They have got no answers”.
The Tory leadership contender also caused controversy at the Conservative party conference when she described maternity pay as “excessive” when it was paid out of taxation, and said that people had more children when maternity pay did not exist. Badenoch has since stated that she is not against maternity pay.
She also cited the minimum wage as an example of a burden on business, saying at a party conference event: “There’s a cafe in my constituency that closed down and the lady who owned it said, ‘I can’t afford to pay the wages any more. I can’t afford minimum wage. I can’t afford for my staff to go on maternity’.”
A spokesperson for Badenoch said: “The flexible working legislation was a Labour PMB [private member’s bill] accepted by a previous business secretary. Kemi had significant concerns with this bill but, as the minutes show, wanted to ensure Dyson was aware of the key provisions.
“As the CEO of one of the country’s leading manufacturing businesses, Kemi took James Dyson’s concerns very seriously and commissioned a review based on the issues he raised in this meeting.”
Emily Thornberry, the former shadow attorney general, said: “Kemi Badenoch’s appalling record in government still lingers. It’s clear, like all of the Tory leadership contenders, she has learned nothing from the public rejecting 14 years of Tory government, which left working people worse off.
“This week while the Tories debated scrapping maternity pay and minimum wage, the Labour government brought forward plans for the biggest boost to workers’ rights in a generation. That’s the difference Labour makes in power.”
Dyson declined to comment but a source at the company said the businessman was right to make those arguments – which reflect his public position – and to meet with senior politicians as an employer of thousands of UK scientists and engineers.
Dyson has said that employees in his company must be present in laboratories, research and work spaces to work side-by-side in product development and design, as well as learning from and teaching each other.
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Labour donor Lord Alli committed minor breaches of Lords rules
Labour peer Lord Waheed Alli committed four minor breaches in his register of interests, a report has found.
The breaches are not related to previous revelations that Lord Alli paid for clothes for senior Labour figures, including Sir Keir Starmer, and allowed some of them to use his properties.
A House of Lords standards commissioner recommended Lord Alli apologise for failing to properly register his interests in a series of businesses and a charitable foundation.
In his apology letter to the Chair of the House of Lords Conduct Committee, the peer accepted the findings and vowed to “endeavour to follow the Code of Conduct at all times to prevent this from happening again”.
A complaint triggered an investigation into Labour donor Lord Alli, who was already facing scrutiny over his donations of clothes to senior politicians.
A report by the House of Lords Standards Commissioner found that Lord Alli improperly removed his controlling stake in Silvergate BP Bidco Limited, the media company behind CBeebies show Peter Rabbit, from the register.
Lord Alli sold part of the company to a Hollywood studio in 2019 and no longer benefited financially from his shares, but still maintained a controlling stake in the firm.
The commissioner found Lord Alli also failed to register that he was an unremunerated director of a firm in the British Virgin Islands tax-haven in time.
Lord Alli correctly registered his trusteeship of The Charlie Parsons Foundation but should also have included his position as an unremunerated director of the foundation, the commissioner found.
Lord Alli co-founded the charity, which focuses on investing in “new talent, new projects, and new business ideas” in the TV and entertainment industry.
In the report, the commissioner said: “While I consider each individual breach of the Code to be minor, I have found there to be four breaches in total, and have therefore recommended that Lord Alli write a letter of apology.”
In his letter to Conduct Committee chair Baroness Manningham-Buller, Lord Alli said: “I am writing to you today to offer my apology for my breach of conduct by not registering my interests correctly.
“I will endeavour to keep to the Code of Conduct at all times to avoid such circumstances again.”
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From PMQs with love: Dowden says a fond farewell to his rivalry with Rayner | John Crace
Those we didn’t know we would miss. Those we didn’t know we had loved, even.
Westminster can be a brutal place. Somewhere ambition collides with reality. Where egos come to die. But just occasionally there is a crack in its tough facade. A crack that lets the light in. To a world where politicians show their softer side. Respect may be pushing it a bit far. So let’s call it a common humanity. A recognition that they are all in it together.
With Keir Starmer en route to Samoa for the Commonwealth heads of government meeting, prime minister’s questions was handed over to the two deputies. Angela Rayner and Oliver Dowden. An occasion for everyone to be demob happy. When no one need try too hard. Where nothing really matters too much. Where power goes hand in hand with irresponsibility. A time for everyone to let their hair down.
Rayner is a known quantity at deputy PMQs. A force of nature. She can dish it out with the best of them, while retaining a smile on her face. Somehow she pulls off the impossible, by appearing not to take herself too seriously while actually taking herself very seriously indeed. No one gets away with taking any liberties with her. Cut away the laughter and you quickly get to steel. The Tory benches are littered with the bodies of MPs who have underestimated her. Make that the Labour benches as well.
It was Dowden who was the revelation at this PMQs. Three months in opposition has done Olive, as almost everyone calls him, nothing but good. In government he had to try just that bit too hard merely to stand still. Imagine being that guy on such a ship of fools. The one who couldn’t even keep up with Liz Truss or James Cleverly. Let alone Honest Bob Jenrick. The shame.
So Olive always used to struggle in the chamber. Terrified of being found out, his face used to look permanently pinched. It was uncomfortable watching him trying to live up to the person he clearly was never going to be. Every outing was just another dance with failure.
But now he is a liberated soul. There is no longer any artifice involved. Instead, he has embraced his own failure. Has owned the essential futility of his existence. The Dialectics of Being Oliver Dowden. By hurtling towards the very worst of himself – the bits from which he used to run – he somehow now manages to present the best of himself. This is Olive Unplugged. A man at one with his limitations. Who no longer cares if he’s a fraud. Deep down he knows he should never have been a politician. He should have been a maitre D at a Pizza Express. Not many politicians have that level of self-acceptance.
Dowden began by acknowledging this was the last time he would be speaking from the opposition frontbench. In less than a fortnight the Tories will have a new leader and neither Team KemiKaze nor Team Honest Bob will want him on voyage. He should take that as a badge of honour. It’s not his incompetence that’s in question but his sanity. He’s not quite mad enough for the Brave New World. So he’s off to languish on the backbenches for a while, before gently drifting into total obscurity.
Tell me, he asked Rayner. What is the definition of a working person? Angela smiled broadly. She was going to enjoy this long goodbye. First a reminder. The last time they had crossed swords in the Commons had been before he had masterminded the July election for Rishi Sunak. So a big thank you for that. In fact, if the Tories hadn’t already offered him a peerage, then she would be happy to do so herself. Olive couldn’t stop himself beaming. This was how politics ought to be. One promotion after the other till you reached peak uselessness. The Lords was his natural home.
Three times Olive tried to ask the same question. What was a working person? Was it a small business owner? The IFS and the chancellor had seemed to think so. Predictably Rayner never bothered to answer. Choosing instead to remind him of what the Tories had done to working people in the past 14 years. Crashing the economy. Countless tax rises. The Fuck Business attitude. Basically a selection of her own greatest hits. It’s going to be a while before she tires of them. The Labour benches loved it.
“Do you actually agree with yourself?” Dowden demanded. The idiot’s question. Because of course no politician ever agrees with themselves when it’s inconvenient. The truth is always mutable. It turned out that Angela had no more of an idea of what a working person was than Keir Starmer. More will be revealed in next week’s budget. Whoever escapes a tax increase will definitely be working people. But it may also turn out that some working people might suffer from false consciousness.
Then it all got surprisingly tender. As if the previous exchanges had all been just a game. Olive wanted to send one last billet-doux to his favourite sparring partner. He looked Angela in the eye. She was his Belle Dame Sans Merci. “I love you,” he mouthed. She would always be the One Who Got Away for him. The one who was out of his league. But that didn’t stop a man hoping.
Rayner relented. She gave him a heart sign. He would always treasure that. She had enjoyed the battle of the gingers, she said. She too would miss their exchanges. Though not quite as much as Dowden. There were other, more important, fish in the sea. But just for now she would indulge him. They could share their love of the monarchy together. She would give him that. Dowden beamed and settled down to laugh about carers with Jeremy Hunt.
The rest of the session was mere froth. Time and again, Labour MPs would lob her friendly questions only for Angela to talk about “14 years of failure”, “14 years of chaos”, “14 years of anything”. The closest we got to real politics was Stephen Flynn asking about Labour staffers campaigning in the US. Though everyone knew this was the very definition of a non-story.
It was all meaningless. Pure theatre. Deputy PMQs always is. But it had been rather nice while it lasted.
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Angela Rayner rebuffs jibe over Donald Trump’s election interference claim
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has dismissed an SNP jibe over the row over Labour Party volunteers campaigning in the US presidential election.
Donald Trump’s campaign has filed a complaint alleging Labour has broken US election rules on foreign interference by sending activists to campaign for his Democratic Party opponent, Kamala Harris.
Rayner told MPs that “people in their own time often go on campaigns”, adding that “it happens in all political parties”, during Prime Minister’s Questions.
She was standing in for Sir Keir Starmer, who has also played down the row while on his way to Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which King Charles will open on Friday.
Rayner was responding to a question from Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP at Westminster, who invited her to join him “in applauding the brave Labour staff members who travelled across the Atlantic to campaign against Donald Trump?”
The deputy PM replied: “People in their own time often go and campaign, and that’s what we’ve seen.
“It happens in all political parties, people go and campaign and they do what they want to do with their own time, with their own money.”
The row over campaigning was sparked by a now-deleted social media post from Labour’s head of operations, Sofia Patel, that she had about 100 current and former party staff heading to America before polling day.
The LinkedIn post said she had “10 spots available” for anyone willing to travel to North Carolina to campaign for Harris, adding “we will sort your housing”.
Foreign nationals are permitted to volunteers in political campaigns in the US as long as they are not compensated, according to Federal Election Commission rules.
Labour Party sources insist no one has done anything wrong, but there is concern about whether the row could impact the so-called “special relationship” between the UK and US should Trump win the election on 5 November.
The Trump campaign complaint to the Federal Election Commission flags that senior Labour Party staff attended the Democratic convention in Chicago and met Harris’s campaign team, naming Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, Downing Street director of communications.
Deborah Mattinson, Sir Keir’s former director of strategy, was also named as someone who travelled to Washington in September to brief Harris’s campaign on Labour’s election-winning approach.
It is understood from Labour officials that Labour met McSweeney’s costs, while Doyle was hosted by the Progressive Policy Institute, a US think tank.
But the officials said it would be wrong to suggest either man had advised or assisted the Harris campaign, adding that Labour sends a delegation to each Democratic convention.
Officials also pointed out that Mattinson left the Labour party staff after July’s general election in the UK.
Sir Keir briefly addressed the issue during his plane journey, telling reporters: “The Labour Party has volunteers, [they] have gone over pretty much every election.
“They’re doing it in their spare time. They’re doing it as volunteers. They’re staying I think with other volunteers over there.”
He denied the row would impact his relationship with Trump, reminding reporters the two had dinner together at Trump Tower in New York last month.
The Prime Minister’s deputy spokesperson stressed that the UK would always have “a deep and strong relationship with the US as our closest ally” whoever won the election.
She was not aware of any plans for government ministers to speak to Trump’s campaign team, but Sir Keir and Trump had discussed “the long-standing friendship” between the two nations during their New York dinner, she said.
“It is a special relationship which has endured for over a century with leaders of all political stripes, and that will always be the case,” she added.
Defence Secretary John Healey suggested the Trump campaign was “creating controversy” ahead of the presidential election.
However, Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader and Trump supporter, told the BBC he believed the wording of the LinkedIn post breached US election law, saying the rules were “very, very clear”.
Farage, who has travelled to the US to support his friend on multiple occasions, said: “The ad didn’t say you’ll be going in your own free time, didn’t say you’ll have to pay your own air fare, which at the moment, by the way, are very, very expensive, it said you’re going to have free accommodation.
“If you look at the wording of that advert there is little doubt that is against American election law.”
Filings with the US Department of Justice reveal that Farage himself has received help three times since his election as an MP in July from a PR firm based in Pennsylvania, including with hotel costs on a trip to the USA.
The company, Capital HQ LLC, is run by Alexandra Preate, who used to be an aide to Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon.
The filings show the firm paid more than $3,500 (£2,700) for Farage’s accommodation at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July.
It also helped with his “perception management”, as well as public relations, travel and logistics.
Capital HQ disclosed it had also assisted with his appearance on a Fox News business programme in July, in which he was outspoken in support of Trump’s election prospects.
It also spoke to him in August about an “upcoming trip to the United States”.
The filings were made under US laws requiring anyone who acts on behalf of foreign “principals” engaged in political activity, such as seeking to influence policy or public opinion there, to register with the federal government.
The Clacton MP has declared £32,836 he separately received from a donor for flights and accommodation for a visit to the United States in July.
Asked about this on BBC’s Politics Live programme, Farage said he “hopped on somebody else’s plane, they gave me a free lift”, adding that he had declared it and “didn’t campaign at all”.
“I went in a purely personal capacity to offer my support after the first assassination attempt… as a friend of his and the family”.
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Keir Starmer rejects calls for slavery reparation talks
Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants to focus on the future of the Commonwealth, after ruling out compensation for the UK’s historical role in the slave trade.
All three candidates to become the next head of the 56-nation organisation have called for reparations for countries that were affected by slavery.
A group of Caribbean nations has indicated it will push for the issue to be discussed at a summit of the bloc’s leaders in Samoa this week.
But the UK prime minister said he wanted to address “current future-facing challenges” rather than “spend a lot of time on the past”.
Sir Keir’s government has ruled out making slavery reparations, continuing a longstanding British stance on the subject.
Downing Street has also said Sir Keir will not be apologising for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Speaking to reporters on his way to Samoa, the Labour leader said there was “no question” that slavery was “abhorrent”.
But he added that he wanted to focus on the challenges that Commonwealth countries were “facing right now” rather than what “will end up being very, very long endless discussions about reparations on the past”.
“This is about stance really, looking forward rather than looking backwards,” he said.
The Atlantic slave trade saw millions of Africans enslaved and forced to work, especially on plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas, for centuries from around 1500.
The British government and the monarchy were prominent participants in the trade, alongside other European nations.
The UK also played a key role in ending the trade through Parliament’s passage of a law to abolish slavery in 1833.
Reparations are broadly recognised as compensation for something that was deemed wrong or unfair, and can take many forms.
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Rayner ‘will miss’ Dowden ‘battle of the gingers’ exchanges
The deputy PM said she would miss their “battle of the gingers” in a light-hearted reference with Oliver Dowden to their similar hair colours.
Angela Rayner and the Tory deputy had been speaking about the roles of King Charles and the late Queen in the Commonwealth.
She suggested she did not expect to face Dowden again at PMQs after the Conservative Party chooses a new leader on 2 November.
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How a LinkedIn post sparked a transatlantic row
LinkedIn: the social network for CVs, apparently motivational corporate messages and – as of late last night – transatlantic diplomatic spats.
When Sofia Patel, the Labour Party’s head of operations, posted on the site last week that she was coordinating nearly 100 current and former party officials to campaign in battleground states in the final weeks of the US presidential election, she surely could not have imagined that she would provoke a legal complaint filed in Florida.
In a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Trump presidential campaign’s deputy general counsel declared: “When representatives of the British government previously sought to go door-to-door in America, it did not end well for them.”
Last week, he noted, was the 243rd anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown – a military victory which ensured the United States’ enduring independence from “Great Britian” [sic].
Bombastic as that may sound, it’s hardly of trivial interest that a Labour Party that has conspicuously sought to improve its ties to Trump and his team is now being formally accused of “blatant foreign interference” on behalf of his opponent, Kamala Harris.
So what’s behind all this?
Under the FEC rules, foreign volunteers on US campaigns are permissible, as long as they are just that – volunteers – and are not compensated for their work.
That is exactly what Labour says these operatives were: volunteers. While Patel’s LinkedIn post told those interested in campaigning that “we will sort your housing”, it is being argued that this was imprecise language.
Sir Keir Starmer told reporters last night that Labour officials going to the US to campaign are “doing it as volunteers, they’re staying I think with other volunteers over there”.
‘Private citizens’
There is a question over what exactly Patel meant by saying she had “10 spots available” for people willing to campaign in North Carolina.
Did that entail travel costs to get there being covered? Even if it did, Labour are adamant that they did not pay.
But arguably the more pertinent charge, diplomatically at least, is the allegation that the Labour Party as an institution is formally coming to the aid of the Democrats.
This is being denied too. Labour sources say that Ms Patel was, in her spare time, organising party officials to go out to the US in their spare time.
That was the argument from Steve Reed, the environment secretary, this morning: “It’s up to private citizens how they use their time and their money”.
And of course, it’s not surprising that those on the left of politics here would want the Democratic candidate to win the US election, just as at least one recent former Conservative special adviser is currently in a swing state campaigning for Trump.
British obsession
There’s another element to this, too. The British political world is utterly obsessed with American politics, even if it is an almost totally unrequited passion.
Every four years, British politicos stream across the Atlantic for a taste of campaigning on a far bigger canvas.
There are numerous examples. Earlier this summer Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, was at the Republican convention just days after his election as an MP, as was Liz Truss, the former prime minister, just days after she lost her seat.
Penny Mordaunt, the former Conservative cabinet minister, worked for George W Bush before she became an MP. Liam Fox, another ex-Conservative MP, has had ties with senior figures in the Republicans for a number of years.
Not that the parties on either side of the Atlantic always match up neatly.
In January 2020, I was shadowing a small group of canvassers for Joe Biden in the New Hampshire presidential primary, when I realised that one of them was Sir Simon Burns, the former Conservative MP for Chelmsford.
In recent weeks Sir Robert Buckland, who lost his seat as a Conservative at the general election, has been in the US campaigning for Harris.
Awkward spot
Be all that as it may, it’s undeniable that this is a seriously awkward spot for the Labour government to find itself in, exactly two weeks before Starmer could well be placing a phone call congratulating President-Elect Trump.
In opposition and in government, Labour officials have invested significant energy in trying to forge links to Trump and his allies.
David Lammy, the foreign secretary, spent time with JD Vance, the senator from Ohio who then became Trump’s candidate for vice-president.
Diplomats were delighted with how quickly Starmer managed to speak on the phone to Trump after the failed assassination attempt on him in July, and just a few weeks ago they met for the first time over dinner at Trump Tower in New York.
Senior Labour figures believe that this legal wrangle is not really a rebuke of that approach, but instead just straightforward politicking from the Trump campaign, who are eager to use the Labour volunteers as a way to bash the Harris campaign in the crucial final stretch.
They need to be right.
Because if they are wrong, then this may not be a mere passing awkwardness, but a dispute threatening the most important diplomatic relationship any British prime minister has.
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