Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Conservative Party deputy chair Lee Anderson has refused to apologise for his claim that asylum-seekers who do not want to live on the government’s Bibby Stockholm barge “should f*** off back to France”. […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Kwasi Kwarteng admitted at the weekend that he was badly hit by his own disastrous mini-Budget – revealing his mortgage payments had soared “a great deal”. The former Tory chancellor has also struggled […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Details of tens of millions of voters could have been accessed by hackers who targeted the Electoral Commission, the elections watchdog admitted. The organisation has revealed its systems were breached back in October, […] More
Lee Anderson’s comments on migrants boarding the Bibby Stockholm were “not unreasonable,” Alex Chalk has said.The Tory deputy chairman told the Express: “If they don’t like barges then they should f*** off back to France.”The incendiary comments came after 15 migrants boarded the barge in Portland, Dorset.Twenty others have been granted a last-minute reprieve after legal challenges.The justice secretary said Lee Anderson “expresses the righteous indignation of the British people” and added that his “indignation is well placed”. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Details of tens of millions of voters could have been accessed by hackers who targeted the Electoral Commission, the elections watchdog admitted. The organisation has revealed its systems were breached back in October, […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain has announced its largest ever crackdown on third countries aiding Russia after a dramatic plea from Ukraine’s first lady in an interview with Independent TV. Foreign secretary James Cleverly said 25 new […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Senior Labour MP Harriet Harman has said the four Conservative MPs who agreed that Boris Johnson had lied over Partygate were “heroic”. The chair of the cross-party privileges committee investigation praised Tories on […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The government has announced a new “task force” to identify unscrupulous lawyers after reports that false asylum claims are being submitted for a fee. The Home Office said the unit would bring together […] More
