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Reform UK chief Nigel Farage has described Joe Biden as “incompetent” and claimed the US President has “not been up to the job for years.”

The MP for Clacton criticised Mr Biden’s skills to guide the White House, which he claimed are “getting worse and worse”.

Speaking on LBC, he unhappy: “The debate was bad enough. They managed to quell that. But of course, they couldn’t hide him in a bunker when it came to the NATO Summit.”

He added: “And, you know, calling Zelensky ‘Putin’, calling Kamala Harris ‘Trump’, and it’s just getting worse and worse.

“Goodness knows why Sir Keir Starmer, our Prime Minister, who met with him, said everything was fine. You know, I guess he was just being nice.”

It comes as President Biden introduced he’ll now not stand a second time period and endorsed Kamala Harris to interchange him.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has denied an increase in immigration might assist plug abilities gaps within the workforce within the brief time period.

It was put to her that Labour’s measures to spice up abilities and cut back reliance on staff from abroad will take a very long time to return into pressure.

Asked whether or not overseas staff might fill vacancies within the meantime, she informed ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “No, this is about creating more opportunities for people here in our country to get the skills that they need in order to fill those skill shortages.

“As you say, we saw a big increase under the Conservatives in skills shortages across our economy. That’s not just holding our economy back and the growth and the job opportunities that we want – it’s holding our people back too.”

Sir Keir Starmer has arrived on the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, the place he’ll make a speech on abilities coaching.

The Prime Minister was greeted by the chief executives of plane-maker Airbus and aerospace producer Rolls-Royce, Guillaume Faury and Tufan Erginbilgic.

He then met a bunch of apprentices from the 2 firms in entrance of a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330-900 jet which has Rolls-Royce engines.

A Labour MP has slammed Sir Keir Starmer after the federal government’s refusal to abolish the two-child profit cap.

Kim Johnson, representing Liverpool Riverside, warned the prime minister there’s a “national crisis” on baby poverty and “doing nothing” will not be an choice.

Ms Johnson urged Sir Keir to amend the King’s Speech to incorporate an finish to the controversial coverage.

She informed the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “I don’t see this as a rebellion. I have said from the beginning about the amendment, it is very much about debate, not division. I do hear what ministers are saying about the financial situation we find ourselves in, the worst since the Second World War.

“But Gordon Brown and others have suggested that there are alternatives in terms of where we can find the funds to support the removal of the two-child cap which is estimated at something like £3.4billion.”

Ms Johnson added: “There are alternatives. But I know as a party we have got a massive mountain to climb but doing nothing for me is not an option.

“47 per cent of children in my Liverpool Riverside constituency are living in poverty. That is one in two children. It is a national crisis that we need to do something about.”

The chancellor has promised that “people won’t have to wait long” for a call after stories that impartial pay assessment our bodies have really useful a 5.5 per cent rise for academics and round 1.3 million NHS employees.

“There is a cost to not settling, a cost of further industrial action, and a cost in terms of the challenge we face recruiting,” she informed the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme.

Ms Reeves added: “We will do it in a proper way and make sure the sums add up.”

She stated an announcement shall be made by the tip of July, alongside the publication of a Treasury assessment into the state of public funds. Schools and hospitals are unlikely to have the ability to finance a 5.5 per cent pay rise, greater than double the present price of inflation, from their present budgets.

Our political correspondent Archie Mitchell has the total story:

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has stated VAT on faculty charges shall be rolled out “as quickly as we can”.

She stated personal colleges have has “ample time to prepare” for Labour’s tax raid and urged the pledge shall be delivered sooner than deliberate.

The tax improve was initially be set to start out in September subsequent yr however Ms Phillipson didn’t rule out it might now take impact from January.

She informed Times Radio: “Schools should be planning for the introduction of this change which we first set out in 2021. We have been clear about our position on this for some time. We do want to move as quickly as we can.

“But you’ll appreciate further measures in terms of the implementation and timescale around it are matters for the Chancellor in a fiscal event and will be presented before Parliament in the usual way.”

Asked if it could be January, she stated: “We want to move as quickly as we can on this. As I say, Rachel Reeves will set out the exact timescale.

“But we first set out this policy in 2021 so I do think schools have had ample time to prepare and my priority is about making sure that we deliver a better education, more teachers and more mental health support in our state schools where 93 per cent of our children will be.”

The shadow work and pensions secretary has revealed there’s a “reasonable chance” he might be a part of the Tory management race.

Mr Stride informed Sky News: “We’ll have to see, I haven’t made any decision. We don’t know what the process is. Colleagues have been talking to me about it, I am considering what I may or may not do.”

Asked for a way lengthy Rishi Sunak ought to stay Tory chief, Mr Stride stated: “That is a matter for him. What we don’t know is what the party board is going to come forwards with.”

He additionally stated the Tories mustn’t “appeal” to voters it misplaced to Reform UK however “those we lost to both the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats.”

While the Tories put together to decide on a brand new chief, Mel Stride admitted that “there’s no doubt that we have a demographic problem” after evaluation confirmed one in six Conservative voters are more likely to die earlier than the following election.

Demographic developments revealed greater than one million Tory votes are more likely to be misplaced by 2029, in accordance with evaluation on the get together’s problem in interesting younger individuals.

Reacting to the outcomes, the senior Tory informed Times Radio: “This isn’t just a challenge that is about leaping onto some wonderful ideological square that will suddenly see all problems resolved. It’s about some deep, painstaking work to work out how we start to attract younger electors.

“And I think this point about the age profile of those that are supporting Conservatives really underscores the depth of the challenge that we have, but it is not insurmountable.”

The shadow work and pensions minister added that “the first thing we need to do the first step is to unite the parliamentary party”.

Bridget Phillipson has been pressed to disclose whether or not the Labour authorities would scrap the two-child profit cap after rising calls from inside and out of doors the get together.

The training secretary refused to decide to lifting the cap however admitted it could be “considered”.

Ms Phillipson claimed she “believes very, very strongly” in decreasing baby poverty, including: “That’s why I’m delighted to be leading with Liz Kendall, our work and pensions secretary, a taskforce across government to look at how we can bear down on those numbers.”

However, on scrapping the two-child profit cap, she stated: “This was not a policy that a Labour government introduced.

“We are aware of the evidence around this, and as part of the review that we will conduct in the coming months we will consider that as part of a number of ways in terms of how we can lift children out of poverty.”

The chancellor got here underneath stress over the restrict, which prevents mother and father from claiming advantages for any third or subsequent baby born after April 2017.

Scrapping the coverage would carry an estimated 300,000 youngsters out of poverty, in accordance with the Child Poverty Action Group.