Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Sadiq Khan is going ahead with the expansion of London’s Ulez (ultra low emission zone) on Tuesday, following the failure of a legal challenge against it last month. But what is the policy, […] More
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Andrew Bowie avoided a question on whether or not he thought it was right that standing charges for gas and electricity have gone up.The energy minister spoke to BBC Breakfast on Friday (25 August) after the announcement that average household energy bills will fall after wholesale prices dropped slightly.However, consumers still face the prospect of paying more this winter because government help which was in place last year has gone.“What we need to focus on today is the fact that people’s average energy bills are coming down. The standing charge as it is is a matter for Ofgem,” Mr Bowie said. 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 A delay in joining the European Union’s science programme post-Brexit has “damaged the UK’s reputation” in the life sciences field, experts have claimed. British […] More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The government has been accused of failing vulnerable Afghans as figures show just 233 have been resettled in the UK this year under the flagship scheme. The latest statistics come as it was […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Artificial intelligence (AI) models can achieve better average grades in university writing assignments than real-life students, a new report has suggested. The research, published in Scientific Reports, found ChatGPT matched or exceeded 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 backlog of asylum seekers awaiting decisions in the UK has reached a new record of 175,457. The Home Office blames “more cases entering the asylum system than receiving initial decisions” rather than […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The backlog of asylum cases in the UK has hit a new record high, Home Office figures show, in a blow to Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “stop the boats” and cut processing times. […] More
