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    Sunak mocks Johnson, Truss and Hancock in speech to political journalists

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak mocked predecessors Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, as well as former health secretary Matt Hancock, during a speech to journalists on Thursday night. The Prime Minister was addressing the Westminster correspondents’ […] More

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    Bias row as Suella Braverman to be interviewed on ‘toxic’ GB News by Tory deputy chair despite misogyny scandal

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email GB News is embroiled in a Tory bias row tonight after announcing Suella Braverman will be interviewed by her own party’s deputy chair – just a week after the right-wing news channel was […] More

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    Sunak refuses to back Braverman claim multiculturalism is failing

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak repeatedly declined to back his home secretary Suella Braverman over the claim that multiculturalism has “failed” in her highly-controversial US speech on immigration. In an apparent snub to the cabinet minister, the PM […] More

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    Is Suella Braverman right to say multiculturalism has failed?

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Aftershocks continue to be felt from Suella Braverman’s incendiary speech on immigration. In one of her most controversial remarks, she spoke of ‘an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the […] More

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    Listen: Sunak dodges HS2 questions and blames Covid for failing railways

    Rishi Sunak blamed the Covid pandemic for Britain’s failing railways as he refused multiple times to rule out scrapping HS2’s northern leg in a series of excruciating interviews.During a round of interviews with local BBC radio hosts, the prime minister said running train services has been “very difficult” because the pandemic made people “stop travelling on the rail network”.“There have obviously been challenges on the rail network more generally, and it’s across the country because of the pandemic,” Mr Sunak said when grilled by BBC York’s Joanita Musisi over why he has “failed the North’s rail passengers so badly”.“It was bad before the pandemic, prime minister,” the presenter replied. More

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    Now Sunak blames Covid for failing railways – as he refuses 12 times to say if HS2 will be scrapped

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has blamed the pandemic for Britain’s failing railways as he refused 12 times to rule out scrapping HS2’s northern leg in a series of excrutiating interviews. The prime minister said Covid-19 […] More

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    Labour partial U-turn on private schools’ tax breaks clampdown

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Private schools would retain some of their tax breaks under a Labour government, after party chiefs backed down on their pledge to strip such schools of charitable status. The party has planned – […] More