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Labour MP for Blackpool South Chris Webb has sent a clear message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the Spring Statement, as he asks for coastal communities not to be forgotten. Speaking to GB News’ Political Editor Christopher Hope on Chopper’s Political Podcast, Mr Webb emphasised how “we cannot go back to austerity”.

Speaking to GB News’ Political Editor Christopher Hope on Chopper’s Political Podcast, Chris Webb MP has spoken out against Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall's announcement this week on reforming the welfare system. The Labour MP for Blackpool South said that there is a ‘considerable amount’ of Labour MPs who are concerned, at least until the Chancellor gets on her feet on Wednesday and reveals the figures.

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Former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe is too right wing to join the Conservative party, ex-Cabinet minister Sir David Davis has said, who said the rise of Reform UK was a symptom of his party's failure over the past years.

Party grandee Davis told today's Chopper's Political Podcast said that Reform had grown in popularity because "we were not proper Tories for too long", and added that new Labour MPs were telling him they feared only being in office for a single Parliamentary term.

Davis - a Tory MP since 1987 and a former Cabinet minister - said that it was "probably right" for Lowe - who lost the whip as a Reform UK MP after a spectacular falling out with its leader Nigel Farage - to be an independent MP.

Asked by host Christopher Hope if he felt that Lowe would be welcome in the Tory party, he replied: "No, I don't. I think, if anything, Rupert is a bit to the right of the rest of them, of Nigel Farage."

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A rural Labour MP has broken ranks with Sir Keir Starmer to demand the Prime Minister takes urgent action on the controversial inheritance tax raid on British farmers.

Henry Tufnell is one of three Labour MPs to have called for the Prime Minister to rethink plans to force more farms to pay 20 per cent inheritance tax on estates worth over £1million.

Tufnell, who was elected as the Labour MP for Mid & South Pembrokeshire last July, told today's Chopper's Political podcast that having a rethink on the plans is a "a fantastic opportunity for Labour, who've won a huge amount of rural seats, to come in and reset that relationship".

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One of the Labour party's rising star MPs has told how he would not have joined the Labour party when Jeremy Corbyn was leader because of concerns that it was no longer patriotic.

Mike Tapp, the Labour MP for Dover and Deal since last July, told GB News' Chopper's Political Podcast: I would not have stood under Jeremy Corbyn. I've made that really clear. 

"He's not a Labour MP now and we love the flag and we're very patriotic. And I think you've got to love the country to serve it."

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Kemi Badenoch cannot "outdo Reform" in terms of anger, former Tory Cabinet minister Michael Gove has said, as he backed the Conservative leader.

The former Conservative Cabinet minister also said that he considered Donald Trump's arrival in the White House to have been "a good thing" having backed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris at the presidential election.

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The Conservatives and Reform UK are 70 per cent likely to merge or agree an electoral pact before the next general election, the most senior Conservative MP has said.

Father of the House, Sir Edward Leigh said that that if the Conservative Party don't come up with firm immigration policy, they will be "slaughtered" at the May local elections.

Speaking to GB News' Chopper's Political Podcast, he said that the Tories had to agree "a full scale merger" or not compete in 100 seats where Reform is stronger to stop a Labour second term in power.

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This week, GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope is joined by Labour MP Jo White and Conservative MP Andrew Griffith.

White tells Christopher Hope that Rachel Reeves Budget was too focussed on the south and urges Keir Starmer to appoint a red wall minister 'if and when' there is a Cabinet reshuffle.

Griffith questions Labour's attitude towards trading with America and why the have not taken greater advantage of Brexit benefits.

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Quentin Letts has predicted that the EU will not exist in 20 years time. Speaking to Chopper's Political Podcast he said: "Twenty years time the EU, I think will have disappeared. Gone down the plughole. Down the Swanee. Adios. I think the whole thing's gonna go because I just don't see that the French and German access can continue. And without that, there's going to be no money."

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Home Office's Prevent programme should be "improved" not scrapped, says former Security minister Tom Tugendhat as Axel Rudakubana was jailed for 13 life terms for attacking and killing children in Southport last year.

The Government has started a review of the Prevent programme after it emerged Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021, yet went on to commit his bloody murders in July last year.

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