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 Rishi Sunak’s government has been handed a boost after EU officials agreed to discuss post-Brexit plans to apply a tariff on electric cars, ahead […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Politicians need to consider whether the United Nations Refugee Convention is still “fit for our modern age”, Suella Braverman is set to say during a visit to the US. The home secretary will question whether […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The Liberal Democrat leadership suffered a blow as they were defied by the majority of their membership at the party’s annual conference with a vote to retain national housing targets as policy. Former […] More
Tim Farron was booed by audience members at the Lib Dem conference during a heated debate over housing.The row centres around the party replacing its pledge to build 380,000 new homes a year with a new social housing commitment.In his speech, the former Lib Dem leader criticised what he called “vague” housing targets, arguing that they benefit housing developers rather than people trying to get on to the housing ladder. As he called the amendment to the party’s housing pledge “pure Thatcherism”, he was met with a chorus of boos from members of his own party. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Sir Ed Davey has said rejoining the EU is a “long-term thing” but is not currently on the table — as Liberal Democrat tensions grow about Brexit. The Lib Dem leader said he […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email An “agreement across nations” on the safe use of artificial intelligence will be a key aim of the UK’s AI Safety Summit, the Technology Secretary has said. Michelle Donelan said she hoped the […] More
Andy Burnham has urged Rishi Sunak to avoid scrapping HS2, warning that the decision would leave the north of England with “Victorian infrastructure”.Speaking on Monday morning (25 September), the mayor of Greater Manchester questioned why those living in the region are treated as “second-class citizens”.“We need new north-south rail lines and we need new east-west rail lines, London has never been forced to choose between those two things,” Mr Burnham said.“London gets everything. Why should we always be forced to choose? Why should the public here always be treated as second-class citizens?” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Scrapping the northern extension of HS2 would be a “gross act of vandalism”, George Osborne and Michael Heseltine have warned. The former chancellor and former deputy prime minister have told Rishi Sunak that […] More
