Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour has reportedly watered down its plans to strengthen rights for gig economy and precariously employed workers in a bid to woo business leaders. The party’s national policy forum last month agreed a […] More
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Rishi Sunak’s government has been accused of making the country’s stark educational divide even worse, as this year’s A-level results showed a “growing disparity” between the most and […] 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’s education secretary has been branded “downright rude” after she said employers would not even ask about pupils’ A-levels a decade from now. As students across the country opened their exam results, […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A petition demanding “absentee” MP Nadine Dorries quits her seat in parliament has passed 75,000 signatures. The former culture secretary said she would quit with “immediate” effect around 10 weeks ago – but […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain could lurch from high inflation into a recession next year with interest rates unlikely to fall until the second half of 2024, economists have warned. Cuts to energy prices led to Consumer […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The Tories will still have left households significantly worse off even if official figures this week confirm a slowdown in inflation, Labour has said. It comes as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A war of words has erupted between Britain and the EU following claims that the bloc has rejected Rishi Sunak’s plea for a post-Brexit asylum seeker returns deal. On Tuesday morning 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 Asylum seekers could return to the Bibby Stockholm barge within days after a Legionella scare forced its evacuation, a Conservative minister has suggested. Will Quince, the health minister, said officials would ensure the […] More
