Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Most Britons want a general election by May next year, with little appetite to hold on until January 2025, a new poll shows. Weeks after Rishi Sunak said an election is “not what […] More
Kate Garraway clashed with Mark Harper over the reallocation of HS2 funding after the northern leg of the scheme from Birmingham to Manchester was scrapped.The government has said that £150m of redirected HS2 funding will be used to improve bus services across the North and Midlands next year.“25 million more bus miles this will lead to apparently, 175 million lost in the last five years… so actually you’re 150 million miles down… what are the correct numbers?” the host said.Rishi Sunak, who announced the northern leg had been scrapped weeks after The Independent revealed he held secret talks, has said the reallocation will “[keep] fares down.” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Former Love Island star and TV personality Georgia Harrison has said she has had “serious conversations” about becoming a Labour MP in Essex. Ms Harrison, 28, attended the Labour conference in Liverpool earlier […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Jacob Rees-Mogg trousered £16,800 in severance pay for his seven-week stint as business secretary, it has been revealed. The former minister, now being paid more than £750 an hour as a GB News […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he will put party politics aside to make the UK a world leader in clean green steel and “turn the industry around”. Sir Keir made the vow […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak said he was delivering a “fairer and improved transport system” by putting £150m into bus services rather than the HS2 high-speed rail project. The prime minister scrapped the northern leg of […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Civil service chief Simon Case has stepped back from his role due to a “private medical matter”. Mr Case, whose time in the job has seen him involved in a series of controversies, […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak’s long-time personal phone number has been leaked online in a major security breach, it has been revealed. The prime minister was targeted by social media pranksters who published a video online […] More
