Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of having “gravely misrepresented” a meeting with Muslim leaders in south Wales over the weekend, amid anger among some in Labour over the party leader’s position on […] More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The environment secretary has suggested the damage done by Storm Babet was harder to predict because rain came in from the east. Therese Coffey told MPs a “rapid review” would be conducted after […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The UK’s approach to artificial intelligence will prioritise safety and will make the country the “best place in the world” to locate and grow an AI firm, the Technology Secretary has said. Michelle […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Nigel Farage claims a “woke brigade” is marching through public and private companies after emails revealed NatWest staff gloated about the closure of his bank account in a series of sniggering internal messages. […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Conservative immigration minister Robert Jenrick has been condemned for claiming that Labour’s planned new towns would soon be “filled with illegal migrants”. The Tory minister ramped up the rhetoric in the Commons on […] More
Sir Keir Starmer welcomed parliament’s newest MPs to a Labour Party crowd at Westminster Hall on Tuesday 23 October, after the party inflicted a double by-election defeat on Rishi Sunak last week.The prime minister saw two healthy Conservative majorities disappear in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire in results that Labour leader Sir Keir said “made history”.Sarah Edwards (Tamworth) and Alistair Strathern (Mid Bedfordshire) were cheered by their new colleagues during the celebratory gathering.Both contests were triggered by the high-profile departures of their previous MPs. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Nadine Dorries has revealed that Oliver Dowden told her to “kick the Online Safety Bill into the long grass” on her first day as culture secretary. The former culture secretary said the extraordinary […] More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Would you feel safer in the UK if police had more powers to tackle terrorism? This week Downing Street has said it has no plans to do this, despite the Metropolitan Police chief […] More
