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    Call early election to ‘minimise’ losses, senior Tory tells Rishi Sunak

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A senior Conservative has urged Rishi Sunak to call an early election to minimise Tory losses at the polls. Lord Finkelstein, a member of the House of Lords and former senior advisor, said […] More

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    Rachel Reeves tells Labour child benefit rebels: We won’t back down

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rachel Reeves has fired back at Labour MPs sharing their anger over the plan to uphold the Tories’ “nasty” two-child benefit cap. Labour’s shadow chancellor said “dire” public finances meant there is not […] More

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    UK inflation falls as prices rise less than expected

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The rate of the UK’s price rises has fallen from 8.7 per cent to 7.9 per cent in the year up to June, according to the latest official figures. The consumer price index […] More

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    Shaun Bailey takes House of Lords seat despite new Partygate police investigation

    Shaun Bailey has taken a House of Lords seat despite a new Partygate police investigation.The 52-year-old accepted the coveted spot despite demands he should wait until police complete a probe into a lockdown “Jingle and Mingle” event held by his campaign team, which he attended.Escorted by Black Rod Sarah Clarke, Independent peer Baroness Clare Fox and Conservative peer Lord Stuart Polak, he was formally introduced as Baron Bailey of Paddington and swore the oathe of allegiance with his left hand across his breast. He then bowed to and shook hands with Lord Speaker Lord McFall. More

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    ‘Coutts targeted me on personal and political grounds,’ says Nigel Farage after private bank shuts account

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Nigel Farage has claimed he has obtained documents showing prestigious private bank Coutts decided to close his account because his views “do not align with our values”. The former leader of the UK […] More

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    Revealed: Ukraine’s chilling warning to Tony Blair about Putin two decades before invasion

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Newly unsealed government documents reveal that Tony Blair received a chilling warning that Ukraine feared the West was nurturing too “rosy” a view of Vladimir Putin – two decades before Russia’s invasion. At […] More

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    Keir Starmer hits back at Labour critics of child benefit U-turn

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Sir Keir Starmer has hit back at critics of his plan to uphold the Tories’ two-child benefit cap. The Labour leader suggested there were some within his party who agreed with the need […] More