Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Six cabinet ministers are set to lose their seats at the next general election as the Conservatives come under assault in the so-called blue wall of safe Tory seats, a new poll shows. […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The current parliament will have presided over the biggest set of tax rises since at least the Second World War, experts have said. By the time of the next general election, taxes will […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Unions are demanding an urgent summit with ministers, mayors and other stakeholders to ensure the northern leg of HS2 goes ahead. After weeks of speculation since The Independent revealed Rishi Sunak and Jeremy […] 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 mocked predecessors Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, as well as former health secretary Matt Hancock, during a speech to journalists on Thursday night. The Prime Minister was addressing the Westminster correspondents’ […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email GB News is embroiled in a Tory bias row tonight after announcing Suella Braverman will be interviewed by her own party’s deputy chair – just a week after the right-wing news channel was […] 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 repeatedly declined to back his home secretary Suella Braverman over the claim that multiculturalism has “failed” in her highly-controversial US speech on immigration. In an apparent snub to the cabinet minister, 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 Aftershocks continue to be felt from Suella Braverman’s incendiary speech on immigration. In one of her most controversial remarks, she spoke of ‘an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the […] More
Rishi Sunak blamed the Covid pandemic for Britain’s failing railways as he refused multiple times to rule out scrapping HS2’s northern leg in a series of excruciating interviews.During a round of interviews with local BBC radio hosts, the prime minister said running train services has been “very difficult” because the pandemic made people “stop travelling on the rail network”.“There have obviously been challenges on the rail network more generally, and it’s across the country because of the pandemic,” Mr Sunak said when grilled by BBC York’s Joanita Musisi over why he has “failed the North’s rail passengers so badly”.“It was bad before the pandemic, prime minister,” the presenter replied. More
