Minister resigns as Rishi Sunak faces foreign aid budget slash backlash
Liz Sugg, the sustainable development minister, resigned from her role in the revamped Foreign Office and Development Office, calling Sunak's cuts "fundamentally wrong".
Liz Sugg, the sustainable development minister, resigned from her role in the revamped Foreign Office and Development Office, calling Sunak's cuts "fundamentally wrong".
"That’s the annual salary of over 1000 NHS nurses. Or a small pay rise for every single one of them."
“We should not be going for a deal at any price, that would be the wrong thing to do and I think there are things that are important to us in these negotiations, and we’ve been entirely, as I said, reasonable, consistent and transparent.”
The chancellor was a founding partner of hedge-fund Theleme, a major early investor in Moderna.
Now The Mill in Stokesley, near Middlesbrough, has banned Tory MPs Matt Vickers, Simon Clarke, Jacob Young - and Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose constituency the pub falls in - “for life”.
Nobody denies that Rishi Sunak did a good job during the first wave of the pandemic. But, with winter approaching, the Chancellor is increasingly showing his true colours.
Former ITV correspondent Angus Walker and TV presenter Richard Madeley are also in the mix according to the bookies.
The move will heap pressure on other businesses to turn down the £9 billion handouts from the Treasury.
"'Go Down for Your Town' didn't make the cut?", one user said.
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