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    Coming week's timetable - from Spectator e-mail Archived Message

    Posted by johnlilburne on September 1, 2019, 11:26 pm

    Monday

    11:00 a.m. Jeremy Corbyn to give a speech in Salford and hold a shadow cabinet meeting there.

    12:00 p.m. Former prime minister of Australia Tony Abbott is to give a speech at Policy Exchange.

    7:00 p.m. Nigel Farage to give a speech in Colchester to launch the Brexit Party’s national ‘make Britain stronger’ tour.

    Tuesday

    Commons and Lords return from summer recess. Boris Johnson is expected to make a statement in the House at around 3:30 p.m., after Dominic Raab takes Foreign Office questions for the first time at 2:30 p.m.

    MPs are expected to try to take control of the Order Paper using an emergency debate.

    The Court of Session in Edinburgh is to hear a case asking for a decision on whether ministers can legally advise the Queen to prorogue parliament in advance of a no-deal Brexit.

    Wednesday

    9:30 a.m. CIPS/Markit services PMI for August to be published.

    12:00 p.m. Boris Johnson’s first PMQs.

    4:15 p.m. Mark Carney to give evidence to the Treasury Committee.

    Sajid Javid to announce the conclusions of the spending round for 2020/21.

    US Vice President Mike Pence to visit the UK, with a focus on ‘strengthening and expanding the bilateral economic relationship following the UK’s departure from the EU, countering Iranian aggression in the Middle East and beyond, and addressing the threat of Chinese malign influence’.

    Thursday

    Gina Miller and John Major’s application to challenge to Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament is to be heard at the High Court.

    Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg is to give a statement on the forthcoming business of the House.

    Mike Pence and Liz Truss to give speeches at the City of London Corporation’s International Trade Dinner.

    Friday


    9:30 a.m. The Bank of England’s latest Quarterly Inflation Attitudes Survey results to be published.

    8:00 p.m. Any Questions? from Cheshire on Radio 4. Brexit Committee chairman Hilary Benn and MEP Magid Magid are set to be on the panel.

    Mike Pence to visit Ireland.

    Ofgem deadline for the National Grid Electricity System Operator to provide it with a final technical report into the power failures of 9 August.

    Nominations for the next director general of the IMF to close.

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