Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Grappling with smartphones is one of the “biggest issues” facing teachers, the Education Secretary said as she pushed for devices to be banned in schools. Gillian Keegan said the Government will update its […] More
Liz Truss was questioned by reporters upon her arrival at the Conservative Party conference, with one asking if she was attending to “cause trouble”.The former prime minister delivered a speech at the event on Monday 2 October.As she made her way inside the building, someone was heard shouting: “Didn’t your plan for growth fail Ms Truss? Are you just here to cause trouble?”The same voice then asks her: “Is Rishi Sunak getting it wrong?”During Monday’s speech, Ms Truss bizarrely claimed that we “need more GB News” as she defended the channel. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Tougher rules on benefits and a boost to the national living wage will form part of a Tory plan to get more people into work, Jeremy Hunt will say today as the chancellor […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The Prime Minister is set to axe plans for the HS2 high-speed rail link to run from Birmingham to Manchester amid soaring costs. Critics of such a move include former prime ministers Boris […] More
Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray was ejected from a Conservative Party Conference event on Monday 2 October, footage shows.Mr Bray – known for his daily protests outside Westminster – was removed from a meeting hosted by the Bruges Group think tank on the fringe of the event in Manchester.“Where’s your Brexit benefits?” he was heard asking as other members of the audience manhandled him.“What a load of bulls***, I’ve never heard so much crap in my life. Brexit is a disaster,” Mr Bray added, as he was being removed from the room. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Putting off decarbonisation policies will result in a hotter atmosphere come mid-century, making the net-zero goal harder to achieve, the new chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said. Many […] More
Liz Truss bizarrely claimed that “we need more GB News” as she opened her speech at Tory conference.The former prime minister addressed Conservative Party members in Manchester on Monday 2 October, backing the news channel less than a week after Laurence Fox and presenter Dan Wootton were suspended after Fox made a series of remarks about political correspondent Ava Evans.“In my view, we need more economic journalism, and we need more GB News,” Ms Truss said.“Challenging the orthodoxy, broadcasting common sense and transforming our media landscape. So long may it continue.” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has given the clearest signal yet that he is ready to axe HS2’s northern leg as he attacked some of the high-speed rail project’s “totally unacceptable” costs. The chancellor is […] More
