Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Some of the English schools found to have crumbling concrete may have to be demolished if repairs become too expensive, experts have told The Independent. Rishi Sunak’s government – under fire over years […] More
Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Reports suggest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to announce that the UK will rejoin the European Union (EU)’s £85 billion Horizon science research […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Education secretary Gillian Keegan has “serious questions to answer”, said Labour, after it emerged that a company linked to her husband was handed a £1m contract from a schools rebuilding fund. The cabinet minister’s husband Michael Keegan states 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 Labour MP who billed taxpayers for a £55 parking ticket has been promoted in Sir Keir Starmer’s reshuffle. Abena Oppong-Asare has been handed the women’s health and mental health brief just weeks […] More
Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Boris Johnson’s government adopted an “ostrich, head-in-the-sand mentality” at the start of the Covid pandemic and was instead fixated on Brexit, a former Tory […] More
Watch the full PMQs exchange between Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday 6 September.The prime minister was grilled on what he knew about the crumbling concrete crisis, with the government releasing a full list of schools affected by the issue just minutes before the session started.Despite being on the back foot, Mr Sunak said the government acted “decisively” on the Raac crisis and called Mr Starmer “Captain Hindsight”.The Labour leader, meanwhile, likened the Tories to “cowboy builders” and accused them of letting schools crumble. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The government has published the full list of schools so far identified to be affected by Raac concrete. The list, published just 30 minutes before Rishi Sunak faced the Commons for prime minister’s […] More
Rishi Sunak has accused the Labour Party and Sir Keir Starmer of “punishing” hardworking families with the London Ulez expansion.The prime minister said it is “disappointing” that Sir Keir “allowed the Labour mayor to introduce Ulez, charging hardworking people £12.50 every time they start their car”.“All I can say, Mr Speaker, is that while we focus on helping hard-working families, all he does is punish them,” Mr Sunak claimed, suggesting the Ulez expansion only “adds to the burden of the cost of living”. More
