Josh Glancy

How Rachel Reeves’s grand vision became a battle for survival The chancellor took over at the Treasury promising to turn Britain around — after 16 months of missteps and misfortune she doesn’t look so clever

- Two child benefit cap to be abolished after all

- Deep frustrations from team Reeves about Gordon Brown's unhelpful interventions on the issue

- Lots of blame for the chaotic budget process being levelled at Torsten Bell

My @thetimes.com pre-budget read

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Thanks James, appreciate that

Not for a bit, I'd imagine

It's a 1300 word news interview in which I did my best to describe her biography and world view.

Within the article, there is a significant focus on immigration and its attendant issues such as the ECHR, because yes I do think that is important.

It's a 1300 word, one hour interview in which I did my best to describe her biography and world view. Yes we discussed Brexit, but there simply wasn't room to go into a lot of detail on every angle. I think people learned something from it.

And the immigration stuff was just one smallish chunk of a wide ranging discussion, though it has obviously blown up massively since.

I'd have liked to go into more detail, both with her and in the piece. There was more material on culture, but I didn't have space for it.

Easy to call people negligent, but as you note the article shared her position with the world, plenty have pushed her for further detail since.

Go on I'll bite. Why was I negligent?

Mass deportation of people with indefinite leave to remain was official Tory party policy - until Katie Lam spelled it out to me in a newspaper interview.

And now it ... isn't

More detail would no doubt have been helpful. But honestly I thought running her quotes at length, in which she sets out her reasoning for the policy, was the priority in the space I had. And I think the debate that followed has vindicated this.

You were replying to my post. In the third person. It's unusual.

Hi Jonathan, I had read about the Tory policy in preparation for the interview, which is why I asked her about it. I didn't have space or time to explore it in great detail, because I had much ground to cover. Others have run with it, which is good

Your patronising and snarky tone seems unnecessary

Hi Jonathan, you can talk at me rather than in the third person! I haven't misrepresented her policies. Nor have I "sanewashed" them, whatever that means. Just presented them to the world concisely, as it was a shortish profile interview that covered lots of ground, not a detailed policy debate.

The standfirst is a bit frothy. But other than that I'm not sure what you mean by "the blithe way it has been promoted". We described Katie as a hardliner in the headline, which she is.

There has been a torrent of discussion about the interview, which again feels like a good thing.

I framed her view as a sombre and radical position, because it is, but I'm not sure it's my place as an interviewer to insert masses of my own opinion. People can - and have - made their own minds up.

Hi Ben, I certainly take responsibility ahead of my editors.

I asked Katie about something that is official Tory party policy. She expressed a view in support of that. Lots of people found that view abhorrent. I think the interview served its purpose, because now people know what Tory policy is.

Thanks D

Opinion | When a Terrorist Comes to Your Hometown (Published 2018)

Well, I'm biased because she's my friend. But this week I went back to reread her piece after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, it's excellent.

www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/o...

I've been commissioned and edited by her a few times. I would say that she's actually a pretty good commissioning editor.

OPINION: The innocence of Anglo-Jewry ended this Yom Kippur Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

OPINION: The innocence of Anglo-Jewry ended this Yom Kippur - Jewish News Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

I wrote a column for @jewishnews.bsky.social on the shattering of Anglo-Jewish innocence. And what may come next.

www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-...

Starmer and his grown-ups can’t just invent a bold identity The prime minister once described his pragmatism with pride. Now the absence of clear vision is becoming existential

Keir Starmer's lack of "vision" and "narrative" has become a cliche at this point. But this isn't just a PR problem. It has a real cost - in muddled hiring decisions and Whitehall not knowing what is it the PM actually wants to do.

My @thetimes.com column

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Is Keir Starmer blowing it? The PM is in for a stormy autumn Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis

🔎 Analysis: Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis ⬇️

Went on The Times podcast to talk about the Green Party leadership race and the new energy mustering on the left of British politics

Inside Haiti: where women are raped on the street and gangs rule The capital of the Caribbean nation of Haiti is now at the mercy of gangs bent on kidnap, rape and murder. Louise Callaghan meets their victims — and confronts a warlord

A world class piece of reporting from the streets of Haiti by
Louise Callaghan. Heartrending, terrifying, quietly furious

www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

Is Keir Starmer blowing it? The PM is in for a stormy autumn Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis

For today's @thetimes.com read, I spoke to Labour MPs ahead of a seismic autumn for Starmer. The mood is ... existential

'It’s been a bizarrely quiet summer'

'I’m staggered by the lack of direction'

'It can’t carry on at this pace. It’s not sustainable'

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Think it was me who said this? Take your point on distinguishing between Farage and the online right, but I wasn't just referring to immigration. He's picked up a lot of momentum and attracted a lot of coversage on many different fronts

Succession in Singapore: a bungalow row and a brother in London exile The city state has been scandalised by a battle between the two sons of Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore. One brother has fled to the UK for his and his wife’s safety. The source of the r...

In June 2022, Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Fern received an early police knock at their Singapore apartment. They flew to London and claimed asylum.

But why had the son of Lee Kuan Yew fled his own country?

They tell their full story here, for the first time

www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

‘It’s not an excuse but I was distracted’: Keir Starmer on the benefits U-turn and his toughest week yet A year into the job and foundering in the polls, can the prime minister convince an impatient electorate to stick with his steady approach to fixing Britain? Josh Glancy meets him in No 10, Ipswich an...

The PM tells Josh Glancy it is "total bollocks" that Morgan McSweeney (not Keir Starmer) is in charge of the Starmer project
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