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'So the idea of the fact that - and I say that as a black woman who actually fights against issues like - are the kind of things to be 'woke' is to misunderstand what my basic rights in this country are. 'And it was something that was said to young black men as they were going onto the streets in order to demonstrate for civil liberties. 'Woke is about the ability to understand your civil liberties and your rights. is actually quite ridiculous, the things that the home secretary is saying. Nimco Ali says: 'It is an American term, but it's misconstrued by the British politicians here. Ridge asks our panel what they think the word means. The Conservative conference this year saw a lot of mentions of the term 'woke' - especially from Home Secretary Suella Braverman. She does now pay UK tax on her international earnings, but it's an ever-present reminder of her status as one of the true global elite, and regularly weaponised by Labour at PMQs to paint her husband as impossibly detached from the reality of the cost of living crisis for ordinary working people. Indeed, the controversy surrounding her tax status, when it was uncovered in 2022, was widely believed to have derailed her husband's hopes of ever standing for the leadership.

Mrs Murty is not usually someone who seeks out the limelight, scalded no doubt by the row over her non-dom status and fabulous wealth as the daughter of an Indian billionaire. Number 10 insist this was the case that Mr Sunak, a man who prides himself on being across the detail of everything, had been left in the dark about the contents of her speech, which we're told she had written herself. She stepped out on stage in a bright coral suit and heels, a pop of colour against the blue backdrop - beaming across at the delegates and describing herself as 'a bit of a surprise addition… and a surprise for my husband too, who has no idea what I'm going to say'. But he did have one secret weapon - in the form of his wife, Akshata Murty. There were no big surprises in the prime minister's speech at the Conservative Party conference the big policy announcements had all been thoroughly leaked to the media in advance. When Boris Johnson amputated the eastern leg of HS2 to Leeds in 2021 it was done under the cover of the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and the Midlands, promising £54bn of local and regional transport projects. (You know what they say, you wait ages for a transport blueprint, then two come along.) Sunak may have got a better hearing had his new plan, Network North, not been the second rail plan for the north of England in as many years. HS2's history of overspending and mismanagement may make it hard to love but, whether the PM likes it or not, there is political and business consensus north of Birmingham that it was crucial to permanently bridging the north-south productivity divide. The anger and dismay that greeted the news, from industry groups to former prime ministers, was to be expected.

#Autumn sky wolfe series#

His pitch was to trade in the 14-year-old cross-party promise to deliver a new line to the city - part of the 'old consensus' he decries - for a series of smaller regional and local links using the £36bn saved on HS2. Appropriately, the railways were not running in Manchester on the day Rishi Sunak cancelled the trains of the future.Ī strike left Manchester Piccadilly quiet while up the road, in the conference centre that occupies the Victorian grandeur of the old Manchester Central station, the prime minister tried to ensure high-speed rail will never get there.