Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Voters in Spain go to the polls Sunday in an election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the populist right, a shift that would represent a […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Boris Johnson has called on the boss of Natwest to resign if she is found to have leaked details of Nigel Farage’s bank account to the BBC. The former prime minister also called […] More
Footage shows the inside of the Bibby Stockholm barge which is set to house 500 asylum seekers at Portland Port in Dorset.The barge’s capacity has been upped from 222 to 506 people.But The Independent understands that migrants will have less living space than an average parking bay.An official brochure released by owner Bibby Marine shows there are only 222 “single en-suite bedrooms” on board, meaning that at least two people may have to be crammed into every cabin for the government to achieve its aim. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Technical experts have recovered all relevant messages from Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone so they can be handed to the Covid-19 Inquiry, a spokesperson for the former PM has said. Mr Johnson 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 has suffered a double by-election defeat in safe Tory seats, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats both overturning majorities of about 20,000. Labour won Selby and Ainsty and the Lib Dems […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour has blamed Sadiq Khan and his hated expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) for their shock by-election defeat in Boris Johnson’s former seat of Uxbridge. Sir Keir Starmer said it […] More
Conservative losses in Thursday’s (20 July) by elections were because Tory voters stayed at home, Greg Hands has said.The Tory party chairman spoke to TalkTV after his party lost two safe seats as Labour gained Selby and Ainsty and the Liberal Democrats won in Somerton and Frome.A 24 per cent swing towards Labour was “largely driven by Conservative voters staying at home,” Mr Hands said.“The result in Uxbridge reflects something wider.”The Tories managed to narrowly cling on to Boris Johnson’s old Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Senior Liberal Democrats believe the ‘revenge of the farmers’ help deliver their stunning by-election win in Somerset – and will help bring down part of the Conservative’s ‘blue wall’ at the general election. […] More
