Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has been reported to police in Scotland over comments made about former first minister Nicola Sturgeon in his Tory conference speech. Mr Sunak sought to make fun of the former SNP […] More
Penny Mordaunt said ‘stand up and fight’ 12 times in a bizarre speech at the Conservative Party Conference.On 4 October, Rishi Sunak closed the annual gathering of Tory politicians held this year in Manchester, but not before the Leader of the House of Commons delivered a rallying speech which appeared to give nod to ex-prime minister of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher.Addressing the conference, she said, “stand up and fight for the freedoms we have won against socialism, whether it is made of velvet or iron.”She walked off to rapturous applause, but left many rather puzzled. More
Rishi Sunak confirms HS2’s Manchester leg will be scrapped 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 came under fire within hours of delivering his first Conservative Party conference speech as two former Tory prime ministers took aim at his flagship plans. In a wide-ranging address, the PM […] 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 used his first Conservative conference speech as party leader to set out his vision for the country – with HS2, smoking, vapes, A-levels and benefits all on the agenda. On Wednesday, […] More
Lee Anderson claimed that there is no poverty in Britain as he spoke at a fringe event at the Conservative party conference on Tuesday, 3 October.The deputy Tory party chairman, once nicknamed “30p Lee” for his comments on food banks, said he “doesn’t believe” in “poverty nonsense,” claiming that there was “real poverty” when he was growing up in the 1970s.Mr Anderson told the event, hosted by Conservative Home and UK In A Changing Europe, added that he believes the UK “is not an impoverished island.”According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 13.4 million people were living in poverty in 2020/21. More
Suella Braverman has reacted to a photo in which she was pictured standing on a guide dog’s tail at the Tory party conference.The Home Secretary issued an “apology to all dogs” after she took to the stage at a Blue Collar Conservatism reception on Tuesday (3 October).Ms Braverman was pictured with her foot on a guide dog’s tail.The dog, named Inca, was at the conference with Guide Dogs UK, who are campaigning for a ban on pavement parking.“I don’t think any dogs were harmed in the filming of my visit,” Ms Braverman said. 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 has finally announced that HS2’s northern leg will be scrapped, weeks after The Independent first revealed he would axe the landmark high-speed rail project. The prime minister was met with howls […] More
