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    Union boss piles pressure on Labour after Reeves rules out wealth tax

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain’s top union boss has piled pressure on Labour to promise a wealth tax, just days after shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves ruled one out if the party wins power. The general secretary of […] More

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    UK expected to rejoin EU’s Horizon science programme

    Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight The UK is expected to rejoin the European Union’s £85 billion Horizon science research programme which it was locked out of in a Brexit […] More

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    Sunak closing in on announcing UK rejoining EU’s Horizon science programme

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak appears set to announce that the UK will rejoin the European Union’s £85 billion Horizon science research programme. Sources familiar with the negotiations between the two sides said on Wednesday that […] More

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    Some schools with crumbling concrete may have to be demolished, experts warn

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Some of the English schools found to have crumbling concrete may have to be demolished if repairs become too expensive, experts have told The Independent. Rishi Sunak’s government – under fire over years […] More

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    What is Horizon Europe?

    Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Reports suggest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to announce that the UK will rejoin the European Union (EU)’s £85 billion Horizon science research […] More

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    Gillian Keegan’s department ‘gave £1m from schools rebuilding pot to company linked to husband’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Education secretary Gillian Keegan has “serious questions to answer”, said Labour, after it emerged that a company linked to her husband was handed a £1m contract from a schools rebuilding fund. The cabinet minister’s husband Michael Keegan states on […] More