Levelling up secretary set to deliver speech this morning and threaten to remove London mayor’s powers over planning
Good morning. In a normal workplace the final day before the Christmas break is a time to ease up, but it does not like that in the House of Commons where, inspired by an old West Wing episode, today is referred to by lobby journalists as “take out the trash day”. It’s the day when the government finally publishes a series of policies/reports/announcements that it has been holding back because they might be embarrassing, or because they have been the subject of prolonged, internal feuding.
There are two obvious examples today. The Department for Education is finally publishing its guidance for schools in England on transgender pupils (which at one point was due out before the summer holidays), and Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, seems to have pushed back against reported attempts by Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary and minister for equalities, who wanted to largely ban socially transitioning in schools. Sally Weale has a preview here.
Continue reading…Levelling up secretary set to deliver speech this morning and threaten to remove London mayor’s powers over planningGood morning. In a normal workplace the final day before the Christmas break is a time to ease up, but it does not like that in the House of Commons where, inspired by an old West Wing episode, today is referred to by lobby journalists as “take out the trash day”. It’s the day when the government finally publishes a series of policies/reports/announcements that it has been holding back because they might be embarrassing, or because they have been the subject of prolonged, internal feuding.There are two obvious examples today. The Department for Education is finally publishing its guidance for schools in England on transgender pupils (which at one point was due out before the summer holidays), and Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, seems to have pushed back against reported attempts by Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary and minister for equalities, who wanted to largely ban socially transitioning in schools. Sally Weale has a preview here. Continue reading…