Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Liz Truss is set to urge the government to cut taxes, shrink welfare spending and raise the retirement age in a speech one year on from her disastrous mini-budget. The former prime minister […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour is calling on the prime minister Rishi Sunak to block Liz Truss’s resignation honour list. In a letter to Mr Sunak, Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s shadow paymaster general, said that if the honours […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour is refusing to commit to completing the HS2 in full after The Independent revealed that Rishi Sunak’s government is considering scrapping parts of the landmark rail project. Sir Keir Starmer is under […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Kwasi Kwarteng has said Liz Truss was “not wired” to be prime minister, as the former chancellor turned on his old boss on the anniversary of their mini-Budget disaster. It comes as it […] More
James Cleverly refused to comment on whether he raised the case of a parliamentary researcher being arrested for allegedly spying for China when he visited the country in August.Speaking to Laura Kuennsberg on Sunday (17 September), the foreign secretary said: “On intelligence and security matters we do not comment.”“You can keep asking and I keep giving the same answer,” Mr Cleverly added.The researcher was arrested on suspicion of spying for Beijing in March.He has denied the allegations in a statement released through his lawyers, saying that he had spent his career trying to “educate others” about the “threats presented by the Chinese Communist Party”. More
Sir Keir Starmer has responded to Penny Mordaunt calling him “beach Ken with no balls” during a Commons business statement this week.The leader of the House of Commons was responding to the Labour leader calling Rishi Sunak “inaction man” over his record in government.Speaking to Sky News on Sunday (17 September) Sir Keir said: “When a government has completely run out of energy and ideas… they go down this rabbit hole of ridiculous insults.”The comment was “water off a duck’s back,” he added. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Liz Truss will claim that Rishi Sunak’s government has spent £35bn more than she would have as prime minister, in a speech on Monday. The short-lived PM will use a speech at the […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain’s homeowners have taken a hit of more than £300bn in the year since Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-Budget, according to new analysis. This week marks the first anniversary of the calamitous spree of […] More
