Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Former government whip Chris Pincher is appealing against a proposed eight-week suspension following allegations that he drunkenly groped two men at London’s exclusive Carlton Club last year. The Standards Committee earlier this month […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Private bank Coutts has apologised to Nigel Farage for closing his bank accounts, describing its assessment of him as “deeply inappropriate”. The U-turn comes as the Treasury announced it will tighten rules on […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A row has broken out between two of Britain’s largest rail unions as another round of strikes by railway staff over pay and job losses gets under way. In an interview with The […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The revolving door of ministers and officials who left government under Liz Truss and Boris Johnson cost the taxpayer more than £750,000 in severance payoffs. The controversial sacking of former Treasury chief Sir […] More
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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Voters are at the polls today for byelections in Greater London, North Yorkshire and Somerset – three contests in very different parts of the country that will serve as a barometer of public […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Tobias Ellwood faces a no confidence vote which could see him ousted as chairman of parliament’s defence committee over a video in which he praised the Taliban for “vastly improving” Afghanistan. The senior […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans said Thursday he wants to lead a combined campaign by two center-left parties that are joining forces ahead of Dutch parliamentary elections in late November. Timmermans is […] More
