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
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
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
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
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
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Bad things may come in threes for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose Conservative Party faces a trio of unwanted verdicts from voters this week. The U.K. is holding three special elections for […] More
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
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
