Tory Leadership Candidates Scramble as Membership Deadline Looms: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Conservative leadership candidates one-up each other on immigration, as membership deadline looms
“As the Tuesday night deadline looms to purchase Conservative party membership, leadership candidates are scrambling to upstage each other on immigration and border security. One has said he’d consider deploying the military to the border to deal with the influx of asylum seekers to the U.S., while another has said he’d use the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to override their charter protections.”
+1: Brad Trost’s campaign says he’s “not entirely comfortable with the whole gay thing”– BuzzFeed News
2. The giant Trump climate order is here
“In the final days of the Obama administration, scholars and journalists took stock of all that he had done to combat the dangerous rise of climate change. Barack Obama, they pronounced, had built up a surprisingly vast array of climate-concerned rules and guidelines across the government. He had turned the many policy-making tools of the many federal agencies toward preparing for this one imminent disaster.
“Well, that was then. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump will sign an executive order that will demolish his predecessor’s attempts to slow the pace of climate change.”
3. Engulfed in battle, Mosul civilians run for their lives
“The war to drive the Islamic State from its last strongholds in western Mosul has come to this: With every advance by Iraqi forces, every missile rained down by coalition aircraft, a flood of Iraqi civilians hits the streets.
“It is no longer a question of waiting between salvos — there are few, if any, breaks that make it obvious when to run, so the people of Mosul are simply running whenever they can.”
4. Nigel Farage says he will leave Britain if Brexit is a disaster
“Farage, who has spent his political life campaigning for Britain to leave the EU, was asked whether he would apologise if Brexit led to huge job losses and economic ruin.
“Farage refused to do so, saying that there wasn’t a “tradition” of politicians apologising in the UK.”
5. Coca-Cola calls in police after human waste is found in cans
“Coca-Cola has called in police to investigate how human waste turned up in a consignment of its drink cans at one of the company’s factories in Northern Ireland.
“The Police Service of Northern Ireland confirmed on Tuesday it hadopened an inquiry into how faeces ended up in the cans at the Helllenic Bottling Company factory in Lisburn, Co Antrim.”
