Seven MPs suspended by Labour could face a fresh crackdown by party bosses if they vote against the government’s decision to means test winter fuel payments, HuffPost UK can reveal.
John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Zarah Sultana, Ian Byrne, Apsana Begum, Imran Hussain and Rebecca Long-Bailey had the party whip taken off them for six months in July after they defied Keir Starmer to back calls for the two child benefit cap to be scrapped.
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However, they are still expected to vote with the government while they serve their suspension.
A party source said: “Their suspension letter says they are still expected to follow the Labour whip, which they are sent weekly.”
Ministers have agree to a Commons vote next Tuesday on chancellor Rachel Reeves’ controversial decision to remove winter fuel payments from around 10 million pensioners.
Two of the seven rebels – McDonnell and Sultana – have already said they are prepared to vote against the government again unless ministers water down their plans.
Four others – Burgon, Hussain, Byrne and Begum – have also signed a Commons motion calling on ministers to U-turn.
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Sultana told HuffPost UK: “I’m planning to vote to keep pensioners out of fuel poverty as I did with voting to lift the two child benefit cap to keep children out of poverty.
“I look forward to the process about the whip concluding in January.”
McDonnell said: “I have told the whips that unless the government comes up with a serious change in its proposal, I will vote against.”
But HuffPost UK has learned that if they do vote against the government, they are unlikely to get the Labour whip back when their current suspension ends in January.
A Labour source said: “It is a shame that some MPs who were only too happy to ride the coat tails of the party’s success at the election are now using the incredibly difficult things we have to do to yet again undermine the government and their colleagues.
“If they are more comfortable hanging out with Jeremy Corbyn and his friends, they should just be honest about it.”
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Labour insiders fear as many as 20 of the party’s MPs could rebel on Tuesday, however at this stage there are no plans to take the whip off them.
I take issue with how some Boomers talk about housing; “Just give up brunch and Netflix and you’ll have a home in five years,” they (wrongly) advise younger people.
Well, I stand by my objection, but it seems I’ve become a little out-of-touch on another topic myself.
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Maybe it’s because I grew up near one of Ireland’s absolute cheapest cinemas, but I hadn’t quite realised how pricey the five-pound-plus snack has become until I took a rare trip to the big screen recently.
While I followed the scent of freshly popped corn to the counter like a cartoon elephant drawn to a bun, my friend stood aghast ― “There’s no way we’re buying popcorn,” she said.
Looking at its price, I realised why. But how come it’s so dear to begin with?
There is a method to the madness
Researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and the University of California (UC) wrote a paper stating that, though it’s painful, the prices do make sense.
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That’s because, while only 20% of cinemas’ revenue comes from concessions (food, drink, and other non-ticket products), it accounts for a whopping 40% of their revenue.
Confused? I was too ― but it turns out that not all of the ticket revenue goes to the cinema. Instead, they share it with movie distributors.
The Stanford GSB and UC study also found that “die-hard” movie fans, who simply love going to the cinema, proportionally pay more for concessions ― low-traffic weeks, where bums were not hitting theatres’ seats, saw a higher proportion of snack profits than higher-traffic weeks.
That means ticket prices can stay lower, as people other than cinema-or-nothing movie-watchers will be put off by a high upfront fee.
“The argument that pricing secondary goods higher than primary goods can benefit consumers has been circulating for decades, but until now, no one has looked at hard data to see whether it’s true or not,” Wesley Hartmann, associate professor of marketing at Stanford GSB and co-author of the paper, said.
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Essentially, your gut instinct is right; food profits bulk up what can be quite meagre ticket profits, especially during low-traffic weeks.
Any other insights?
Yep ― unsurprisingly, people who went to the theatre in groups tended to buy more concessions, as did those who bought their tickets online.
“The fact that the people who show up only for good or popular movies consume a lot less popcorn means that the total they pay is substantially less than that of people who will come to see anything,” Wesley Hartmann said.
“If you want to bring more consumers into the market, you need to keep ticket prices lower to attract them.”
Given that “The average price for a standard UK cinema ticket in 2023 was £7.92” compared to £6.53 in 2013 (per UK Cinema Association and Statista), that seems to have held true.
Scrapping it, the then leader of the opposition made clear to the House of Commons, was a very bad thing.
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So concerned was he at the prospect of the Tories doing it, he asked Rishi Sunak at PMQs that day: “Will the prime minister now rule out taking pensioners’ winter fuel payments off them to help fund his £46 billion black hole?”
How PM Starmer must now regret that particular line of attack.
Within days of entering government two months ago, chancellor Rachel Reeves decided to means test the hitherto universal benefit, meaning only those on pension credit would continue to receive it, with 10 million OAPs missing out.
Reeves blamed the £22 billion “black hole” in the nation’s finances – that Labour insist they inherited from the Tories – for the need to find savings where they can in order to balance the books.
Nevertheless, it has created a huge political problem for the new government which could result in Starmer suffering his largest backbench rebellion yet.
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Under mounting pressure from MPs, Commons leader Lucy Powell announced that a parliamentary vote on the controversial cut will take place on Tuesday.
That is the same Lucy Powell who was sent out onto the airwaves last weekend to suggest that had the Chancellor not take the decision she had, there would have been a run on the pound and the economy would have crashed.
Some in government are baffled that Reeves has chosen to take up to £300 off millions of OAPs – many of them on incomes of barely £11,500 a year – the first signature decision of her time in office.
One senior source told HuffPost UK: “I keep waiting for some sensible person to say ‘right, how do we get out of this hole we’re fallen into on this policy’ as opposed to, for some reason, making it a test of our political and economic credibility.”
Another insider said: “This is a problem on the doorstep, but they have to see it through now.”
So far, 10 Labour MPs have signed a Commons motion calling on the Treasury to think again, but some senior party figures believe as many as 20 could end up rebelling.
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That would easily beat the seven rebels who defied the PM and voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap barely a fortnight after the general election – and were stripped of the Labour whip for their trouble.
HuffPost UK understands there are currently no plans to impose the same sanction on any MPs who vote against the government on Tuesday.
Among the signatories to the rebel motion tabled by Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan is former shadow cabinet member Rachael Maskell, who told HuffPost UK she and her Labour colleagues were “deeply concerned” at the government’s approach.
“I’ve spoken to so many MPs who are really distraught about these measures,” she said. “Some have literally been in tears at the prospects of their elderly constituents not getting their winter fuel payments.
“I’ve read letters myself and been in tears. One recently widowed constituent told me they are just above the income threshold so they no longer qualify for the payment and are really fearful for the winter. This isn’t about macro-economics, this is about real lives.”
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The Treasury has launched a campaign urging the 800,000 pensioners who qualify for pension credit but don’t claim it, to do so.
But Maskell said that even once you have completed the lengthy application form, it takes nine weeks to process the claim.
“To keep old people warm and well they need to have enough money to pay the bills and this needs to be the focus now,” she said. “We have said we will protect the NHS, so we don’t need more old people in hospital beds this winter.
“Old people can’t retain heat, putting them at greater risk of stroke, heart attack and hypothermia. That would put a greater demand on the NHS, and It will be [health secretary] Wes Streeting who will have to stand before the country and explain why – and I don’t want him to have to do that.”
The York Central MP wants the chancellor to delay her plans to cut the winter fuel payment until next year, and use that time to establish a better system for targeting the benefit at those who need it.
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Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said, “many older people are very frightened about how they will manage this winter” when the payment is removed.
The charity estimates that around one million old people living near the poverty line, but who are not poor enough to receive pension credit, will “really struggle” this winter as a result of the chancellor’s decision.
Abrahams said: “The government is not disputing that millions of pensioners on low and modest incomes will lose their winter fuel payment under their plans and they have no credible answer when asked about the plight of all those whose tiny occupational pensions take them above the pension credit line.
“It is for these reasons that they should pause this policy so it can be fully considered as part of the government spending review in the spring.”
Downing Street sources have told HuffPost UK that the government has no plans to U-turn, or offer any concessions to the rebels, ahead of Tuesday’s vote.
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They pointed to the extra £421 million which was announced last week for the household support fund, and the fact that the pensions triple lock means the state pension will increase by £400 each year as proof that the government is acting to help those on the lowest incomes.
A cabinet minister defended the government’s position, and insisted that the chancellor had actually chosen the least worst option.
“We know it’s difficult but we can see how bad the public finances are,” they told HuffPost UK. ”It was pretty clear that there was going to be a major economic shock in the markets had we not taken immediate action on this.
“The choice the Treasury had was to either keep the pension triple lock or means test the winter fuel allowance. That makes it quite an easy choice.
“The politics are tough, but we have to show voters that we’ve been left with this dreadful inheritance and that’s the real difficulty we’ve got. There are no palatable choices here.
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“We’re asking the public and the pensioners to give us a bit of time to sort this mess out.”
Nevertheless, Tuesday’s vote promises to be extremely uncomfortable for Starmer and Reeves.
And with a brutal Budget coming at the end of October, the PM seems certain to make good on his promise that “things will get worse before they get better”.
The EU’s former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has just been appointed to be France’s new prime minister – and Eurosceptics with long memories are not happy.
French politics has been going through a tumultuous period since president Emmanuel Macron’s party lost its majority in parliament and the far-right saw a huge uptick in support.
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Although Macron chose Barnier, the former EU commissioner still needs to survive a vote of confidence in parliament to get the job.
And while the French president may see Barnier as a unifying figure, Brexiters over in the UK certainly do not.
Barnier led the EU negotiations with Britain between 2016 and 2021. He was known for taking a particularly firm stance against the UK, and calling then-PM Boris Johnson a “bulldozer”.
In response to Barnier’s appointment, Reform leader and Clacton MP Nigel Farage posted on X: “Michel Barnier becomes the new French prime minister. An EU fanatic that will suit sell-out Starmer.”
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Former Brexit Party MEP, Alex Phillips, posted a much angrier message, writing that his appointment was proof “the machine doesn’t even try to hide the fact anymore that instead of rigging elections, it just ignores them.”
Meanwhile, John hayes, the Tory MP for South Holland and Deepings, one of the constituencies with the highest level of support for Leave in 2016, lashed out at the former negotiator.
told GB News: “We thought we’d seen the last of ‘Monsieur Barnier’ after the Brexit negotiations – where he was determined to get Britain the worst possible deal.”
Former Tory leader and MP for Chingford and Woodford, Iain Duncan Smith, also told the broadcaster that Barnier’s appointment “shows the desperation of France”.
A question mark remains over Barnier’s job, though, as he still needs most of parliament to back him.
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Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally in France, has already announced her party would not back Barnier in a coalition government.
Donald Trump on Wednesday told people they have no choice but to vote for him, “even if you don’t like me.” (Watch the video below.)
The lighthearted plea during his Fox News town hall caught the attention of an observer who said he sounded “desperate.” Another commentator even accused the Republican nominee of “begging” for votes.
Host Sean Hannity replayed a 2019 pledge by Democratic foe Kamala Harris to ban fracking if she were president (although she has since changed her stance on the matter).
“Pennsylvania can’t take a chance that that answer is true,” Trump said, per Mediaite.
He predicted employment and economic disaster for the swing state without fracking.
“She’s not gonna allow it,” the former president said. “You can’t take the chance. You have no choice.”
“You’ve gotta vote for me,” he added, laughing. “You’ve gotta vote for me. Even if you don’t like me!”
One person offered a curt “no, thanks” while others on social media took a more analytical view of Trump’s plea:
Self-proclaimed “extremely stable genius” Donald Trump’s boast about his “very smart” late uncle — which the former president used to suggest that, by extension, meant he was exceptionally clever too — drew mockery on social media on Wednesday.
The former president and current Republican nominee, during a town hall with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, was bombastically bragging about how he “understood” nuclear weapons “maybe better than anybody” when he went off on a tangent about John Trump, his physicist and inventor uncle who was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for almost half a century.
“Very smart guy. We have a smart family. It’s nice to have a smart family,” Trump said, before pivoting back to America’s nuclear program.
And, as before, people on social media had thoughts:
If you had to guess what the secret behind that distinctively malty Biscoff flavour is, you probably wouldn’t say sugar ― but that’s likely what it is.
Similarly, red velvet cake’s earthy, tender flavour isn’t created by crimson berries or beetroot; traditionally, it’s the action of buttermilk and vinegar on Dutch-processed cocoa and baking soda that gives it its signature taste and hue.
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It also contains vanilla.
So, it shouldn’t have shocked me that cola’s taste is partly down to an unexpected source; namely, the kola nut (yes, there is such a thing).
What’s a kola nut, and what other flavours are involved?
According to beverage company StrangeLove, “cola brands guard their own secret formulas with their lives, using generic terms such as ‘artificial and natural flavours.’”
Nonetheless, some ingredients stay constant, StrangeLove explains.
“Cola generally is a carbonated beverage which consists of these key ingredients; kola nut, citrus oils, vanilla and cinnamon,” they say.
This is usually mixed with a caramel base for that slightly sticky, moreish texture.
Kola nuts contain caffeine and are from tropical regions of Africa, Britannica says.
They look a little like the lovechild of chestnuts and cocoa beans.
They’re dried in the sun before being used in products like soft drinks and medicine, though Britannica says that “American and European soft-drink manufacturers, however, do not use the kola nut; instead, they manufacture synthetic chemicals that resemble the flavour of the kola nut.”
This is undoubtably the most interesting fruit I have ever been able to work with- the kola but. It is native to West Africa and is traditionally used for its high caffeine content. It grows in a pod similar to cacao. Now here’s where it gets interesting- it was used in the first recipe for Coca Cola and many say that it’s where the Cola part came from! Now every time I hear the word cola I’m going to think of this beautiful pink African fruit 🥹 It has a crunchy texture and a bitter flavor and I have been told that some tribes will eat it on its own with a little bit of salt and it also can be used to sooth a sore throat when mixed with honey. Once cooked with other ingredients the flavor is super pleasant. I boiled the Kola Nuts I had with fresh ginseng, ginger, yuzu peel, kumquats, clove, cinnamon, honey, and date syrup 🍵 #tiktoktaughtme#kolanut#cocacola
Given how secretive the biggest cola brand ― Coca-Cola ― has been about its 7x ingredient, many have speculated about what’s really in the world’s favourite fizzy drink.
A surprising amount of people use coriander seed in their attempted Coca-Cola remakes, alongside cassia (also known as Chinese cinnamon) and lavender.
Coca-Cola inventor John Pemberton is said to have written a recipe into his diary before he died that included lavender, coca leaves, alcohol, coca leaves, orange, cinnamon, lemon, coriander, nutmeg, neroli, and of course 7x.
Of course, the recipe has since changed ― it no longer contains alcohol and certainly uses no coca leaves, so it’s likely other elements have been switched as well.
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Given that the brand won’t even let the two people who know how to mix 7x on the same plane at the same time in case it crashes, I don’t reckon we’ll be certain any time soon…
Tom Tugendhat was next on 17 votes, with Mel Stride, who had been tipped by many to be first candidate ejected, on 16.
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The result was announced in parliament’s committee room 14 buy Bob Blackman, chair of the Tory backbench 1922 committee.
The next ballot of Conservative MPs will take place next Tuesday, when another candidate will be kicked out.
Posting on X, Cleverly said: “Great to be through to the next round and proud to have the support of my fellow MPs.
“We can only unite our party with Conservative values, and I am ready to lead, and win, the next general election. Momentum is on our side, but the work continues.”
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Great to be through to the next round and proud to have the support of my fellow MPs.
We can only unite our Party with Conservative values, and I am ready to lead, and win, the next General Election.
Tugendhat said: “It is a privilege to have the support of my parliamentary colleagues and to have made it through to the next round of the leadership contest.
“To my friend Priti, you have always faithfully served this party, care deeply about its future, and I’m sure you will continue to play a key role in it.
“Mel, James, Kemi, and Robert are all friends and good Conservatives. However, only I can deliver the Conservative revolution that our party and our nation need.
“I will lead in opposition as I would as prime minister, by serving the British people, leading with conviction, and acting to make our nation better. That is my promise, and I always deliver on my promises.”
Since then, everyone from director Todd Haynes to Joaquin himself has had a go at discussing Joker: Folie À Deux’s musical elements – and whether it’s actually a musical or just a “film with music”.
Ahead of the movie’s Venice Film Festival premiere, Gaga was asked again about the project’s relationship with music.
“The way that we approached music in this film was very special and extremely nuanced,” she explained.
“I wouldn’t necessarily say that this is actually a musical, in a lot of ways it’s very different. The music is used to really give the characters a way to express what they need to say, because the scene and just the dialogue is not enough.”
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Now… is it just us… or is that not just exactly what a musical is? Either way, we’re pleased to see we weren’t the only ones confused…
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What is this bullshit statement that these people have agreed on? Lady Gaga of all people surely should be aware that that IS what a musical is??? The Lady Gaga who belted Elphie songs during school lunches!!!??? 🙁 https://t.co/DD8O03NO3J
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Don’t worry, Marge, it’s not a musical. It’s just that the music is used to give the characters a way to express what they need to say when the scene and dialogue are not enough. pic.twitter.com/uDP4FgS36i
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Don’t worry, Marge, it’s not a musical. It’s just that the music is used to give the characters a way to express what they need to say when the scene and dialogue are not enough. pic.twitter.com/uDP4FgS36i
Joaquin won an Oscar for his performance in the first Joker film, and returns for the sequel alongside new addition Lady Gaga as the iconic Batman villain Harley Quinn.
The film’s cast also includes Zazie Beetz (returning from the first Joker film), Steve Coogan, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener.
Joker: Folie À Deux hits cinemas on Friday 4 October.
The energy security and net zero secretary told Reform UK’s deputy leader that his party’s commitment to fossil fuels would lead to higher fuel bills and “make people poorer”.
Footage of their Commons spat has gone viral online.
Tice, who was a prominent Brexiteer, accused Miliband of being “obsessed with renewable energy”, claiming that windfarm projects cost the public purse billions of pounds.
He said: “Will the secretary of state be honest and tell the truth that renewable energy is more expensive, not cheaper?”
But echoing the Vote Leave campaign’s slogan from the 2016 referendum, Miliband said green energy would let the UK could “take back control” of fuel prices rather than being at the mercy of global markets.
He said: “Whether fossil fuels are produced in this country or internationally, they are sold on the international market, and that’s why the British people paid the price and Government forked out £94 billion.
“And the only way to get off the rollercoaster of international gas markets, and take back control, is to become a clean energy superpower.”
