Chancellor says overall government won’t face cuts in real terms before ket conference speech
Most political parties publish a detailed conference timetable in advance. But Labour only publishes a skeleton schedule before the conference starts, and the exact time when certain debates and votes will happen often only gets decided the night before (by the conference arrangements committee).
Yesterday people were expecting the vote on the winter fuel payments cut to happen today. Now it looks like it will be on Wednesday. But no one has said for sure, and in an interview with LBC Rachel Reeves said even she did not know.
I don’t know the situation about when votes take place, but if delegates want to vote on this, they will get a vote on this.
I don’t know the timing of the vote, but we’ve already had a vote in parliament where it was overwhelmingly passed.
Continue reading… The Guardian Read More Chancellor says overall government won’t face cuts in real terms before ket conference speech Most political parties publish a detailed conference timetable in advance. But Labour only publishes a skeleton schedule before the conference starts, and the exact time when certain debates and votes will happen often only gets decided the night before (by the conference arrangements committee).Yesterday people were expecting the vote on the winter fuel payments cut to happen today. Now it looks like it will be on Wednesday. But no one has said for sure, and in an interview with LBC Rachel Reeves said even she did not know.I don’t know the situation about when votes take place, but if delegates want to vote on this, they will get a vote on this.I don’t know the timing of the vote, but we’ve already had a vote in parliament where it was overwhelmingly passed. Continue reading…
