The Prime Ministers top adviser Sue Gray has resigned from her position as downing Street Chief of staff. She said she was standing down because it had become clear that intense commentary around her position Risked Becoming A Distraction to the governments vital work of change. It had recently been revealed she earned more than the pm. In a written statement, Sir Keir Starmer thanked her for all the support she had given him, both in opposition and in government. Iain watson reports. This is how close Sue Gray was to the Prime Minister, Meeting President biden alongside Keir Starmer just last month. The Sue Gray report into Government Lockdown parties has just been published. She is probably best known as the Senior Civil Servant who drew up the partygate report, which hastened borisjohnson s departure from number ten. The conservatives were outraged when she traded her Whitehall Job for an influential role with labour. Since last september, she was Keir Starmer s Chief Of Staff in op
Delivery not ideology. They understand that britain needs leaders that just get understand that britain needs Leaders Thatjust get it done, because conservative leadership changes lives. Helps people back to well paid work that lets you choose what you do with your money that is my politics and that is what i will deliver. That is what i mean by a new Conservative Revolution. Lets talk about migration. Of course we need an effective deterrent. But we must solve as well as Stop And Thatis must solve as well as stop and that is why i have set a Cap On Migration of 100,000. Not a target, not an ambition, a cap. But a cap alone wont work. This is about visas, not about foreign courts. Let me tell you something that my opponents probably wont. This isnt simple. We issued the visas because businesses need the staff for our Care Homes and our hospitals to look after our families. So how do we square this circle . We need to fix migration by fixing the gaps in education and skills in Transport
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About 100,000 jobs impacted as a Ripple Effect because of this strike and that may show up in the October Jobs report, dont forget on the west coast, we have a strike at boeing going on right now. And so you have those jobs taken offline in addition to this Port Strike and all but impacts of the Ripple Effects, you could see not such a healthy Job Number in october that is the last Jobs Report that well see before the election. People are going to be watching that very, very closely as these strikes drag on i think itll be part of the political fodder as well. Thank you so much, vanessa. Appreciate it. A new hour of cnn, new central starts right now longfeared wider war in the Middle East has arrived, is real promises to make iran pay efforts precedented Missile Attack what does that look like now . And what role will the united states play you could call it a Throwback Debate of sorts. A throwback because civilians he actually returned to the Debate Stage for the first time in a long
We expect any moment that we will hear from Attorney General Merrick Garland and Rule Weve heard them quite a bit lately after we didnt hear a lot for quite some time but he is expected to also take questions after this announcement of a Doj Being Action against visa but what is going to happen in the Question And Answer period we expect are some questions about the dojs handling of now the second Assassination Attempt on former President Trumps life. Trump this blasted justice and the fbi and says that the florida investigators should take the lead on this so well see what Aji Garland has to say in Response Or David spunt is in the room at the Justice Department that will bring you that of course live as that played out but first former President Trump Today in georgia speaking about his plan to make America Rich again cutting inflation, cutting taxes and rewarding cant companies who make their products here in the united states. Watch. Mr. Trump under my leadership we are going to ta