Rachel Reeves picks a fight on judicial review
5/20/202621 min
After a fortnight of local and national elections drama - can the machinery of government get back moving again amid global instability?
With the Straits of Hormuz still shut, Sam and Anne examine a raft of announcements coming from the Treasury. Is Rachel Reeves about to open a massive argument with the NIMBYs on the right to launch judicial reviews?
Away from the levers of government, the duo look ahead to some upcoming by-elections and explain the rules around the coverage of electoral events.
All the candidates standing in the Makerfield by-election can be found here.
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First 90 secondsSam Coates· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, good morning and welcome. It's Wednesday, May the 20th. After days of chaos, Rachel Reeves is going to kick the tires and find out whether the machinery of government is still working today with a big and tricky growth announcement. What is it and what will it tell us about the state of the government right now? My name is Sam Coates of Sky News.
Anne McElvoy· Host0:24
And I'm Anne McElvoy from Politico. PMQs at lunchtime no doubt featuring the Prime Minister's future again. And a sense that real world politics has been on hold for almost a fortnight since the local elections drama. But with the Straits of Hormuz still closed and ministers trying to figure out what to do about the consequences, we've got a couple of days of Treasury powered announcements designed to help the country, uh, through that. But if ministers pull the levers, do they still work?
Sam Coates· Host0:56
Yeah, I keep hearing the bits of Whitehall aren't working. And, you know, that's compounded by mixed signals, should we say, from the center. You know, there are some in Downing Street I think don't think there's much of a future worth planning for after June the 18th and the Makerfield by-election, but other people strongly disagree, and you can see disagreements over the Prime Minister's potential longevity in office, uh, splashed over the papers. Um, Labor MPs, well, their focus is what Andy Burnham might do, perhaps understandably, but particularly because it... There'll be a lot of them are concerned for