Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Ministers are considering a shakeup of lending laws that would encourage banks to offer 40-year mortgages to help first-time buyers. The long-term fixed-rate deals, which are popular in the Netherlands and Denmark, allow […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he does not think the Irish government would offer condolences to Russia in the event of Vladimir Putin’s death. Mr Varadkar was responding to a question relating to […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A self-identification system to allow transgender people to legally identify as their chosen gender without a medical diagnosis is not the “right way forward”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. It comes after Labour […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Dame Alison Rose’s dead-of-night resignation as NatWest chief executive wiped £850m off the value of the taxpayer-backed bank. Her decision to quit – after admitting she leaked a story about Nigel Farage’s Coutts […] More
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 NatWest could have avoided a 3 per cent drop in its share and the loss of its CEO if Coutts boss Peter Flavel had […] 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 faced heckling and mockery from members of the public on Wednesday as he defended the government’s handling of the contaminated blood scandal. The prime minister faced groans and laughter from members […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch live as Rishi Sunak gives evidence at the Infected Blood Inquiry on Wednesday 26 July. Campaigners will call on the prime minister to pay full compensation to those infected and affected by […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Mobile phones should be kept out of the classroom and young people should be taught to “ration” their screen time at home, the schools minister has said. Nick Gibb said mobile phones can […] More
