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 Fewer than one in 10 British voters think Brexit has gone well, a new study has found. Research by the think-tank UK in a […] 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 was forced to deny making a “desperate” attempt to interrupt the Labour conference, as he also faced an awkward grilling by voters in the East Midlands. The PM was accused of […] More
Rachel Reeves claimed that Liz Truss “is still leading the Conservative Party” despite “being out of Downing Street”.The shadow chancellor took aim at the former prime minister as she made a speech at Labour conference in Liverpool on Monday 9 October.“I’m telling us what we already know, Liz Truss might be out of Downing Street, but she is still leading the Conservative Party,” Ms Reeves said.She went on to say that the “one sensible thing” the Tories announced last week was a phased smoking ban, before joking that the government won’t have any cigarette packets left to write their other policies on. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Working-class Britons who helped Boris Johnson and the Conservatives win the last general election have been fleeing the party under Rishi Sunak, according to new polling. Less than half (44 per cent) of […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Conservative cabinet ministers spouting Trump-like conspiracy theories are alienating business, the shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said. The Labour frontbencher said Britain needed the “best of government” to tackle the big issues […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as Rachel Reeves speaks at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool on Monday 9 October. The shadow chancellor used her address to pledge that the party will “restore hope” and “get […] More
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Welsh delegates at the party’s conference in Liverpool it is “time for change”.As activists gathered for what could be the final Labour conference before the election expected next year, Sir Keir said the party would make the “positive case for change” with a pitch to swing voters that would “weld together” competence and the offer of fresh hope after 13 years of Tory rule.The party’s members gather in Liverpool enjoying consistent double-digit poll leads over the Tories and buoyed by the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election triumph over the SNP, but Sir Keir also warned against complacency. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Ministers will be blocked from using private jets when they could get regular flights under a Labour government, Rachel Reeves says today. In a bid to get the public to think “I can […] More
