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 is on course for a landslide general election victory bigger than 1997, despite party tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict. The Labour leader would become prime minister with a 212-seat majority […] More
Nadine Dorries has questioned if Michael Gove was “drunk” while walking through central London on Saturday 11 November.Mr Gove was mobbed by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Victoria station after a day of tensions over a march and counter-protests held on Armistice Day.“What was Michael Gove doing in the middle of Victoria station on a day when every other sensible politician would not want to make the police’s job any harder? Was he drunk? What was he doing there?” Ms Dorries asked, during an appearance on the BBC.She then clarified that she was “coining a phrase” rather than actually accusing Mr Gove of being drunk. More
Rishi Sunak will make a decision on a cabinet reshuffle “whenever he wants”, Grant Shapps has said, amid growing calls for Suella Braverman, the home secretary, to be sacked.The defence secretary refused to back Ms Braverman when he was asked if she would still be in the job “by the end of the week”.“As you absolutely expect me to say, the prime minister is in charge of whoever he wants in his cabinet, and he will make that decision whenever he wants to reshuffle,” Mr Shapps told the BBC.“I don’t come with news on that front.” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Grant Shapps has refused to say if Suella Braverman will still be home secretary next week amid growing calls for her to be sacked. The defence secretary said “a week is a long […] More
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 accused Suella Braverman of “whipping up division” and “sowing the seeds of hatred and distrust” ahead of Armistice Day commemorations that saw far-right thugs clash with police. The Labour […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email It is a familiar sight in this remote rural town: a migrant in a headscarf and thick winter coat carrying her belongings to the overcrowded reception center as a storm brews over the […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Kemi Badenoch is understood to have fallen out with Michael Gove after he had an affair with one of her friends. The levelling up secretary, who is divorced from columnist Sarah Vine, went […] More
Tory minister refuses multiple times to say PM has confidence in Suella Braverman More
