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 said he wants to consult Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, while not ruling out House of Lords roles for the former prime ministers to serve a Labour government. Speaking […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The number of people who have died while still waiting to be compensated over the Windrush scandal has nearly doubled in two years amid ongoing payout delays, the government has admitted. The Windrush […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has admitted his promise to halve inflation by the end of the year has “become harder” to deliver, as the government comes huge pressure over Britain’s juddering economy. The prime minister […] More
Rishi Sunak cracked jokes about missing out on lunch as he reacted to news that the Bank of England has lifted UK interest rates to a 15-year high.Speaking from a warehouse in Kent, the prime minister said everything about his visit was “superb”, but that his team was “a little bit sad that there was no meatballs at lunch”.Aside from the awkward joke, Mr Sunak moved to assure the British public that “we are going to get through this”.“I am totally, 100 per cent on it, it is going to be okay and we are going to get through this,” he said. 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 promised new legal powers to ensure bereaved families are not “stonewalled” by tech companies if their children have died after accessing harmful online content. Culture minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley […] 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 Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden claimed that planning for a no-deal Brexit made the UK “match fit” for the Covid pandemic. The senior Tory minister told […] More
Floundering foreign secretary James Cleverly was left red-faced in a bruising BBC interview when he was put on the spot over the inflation crisis.Challenged six times to say how Rishi Sunak planned to cut price rises Mr Cleverly’s stumbling replies were greeted with laughter by interviewer Amol Rajan.Eventually Mr Rajan ended the interview abruptly, silencing Mr Cleverly for the weather forecast.At one point tongue tied Mr Cleverly mistakenly talked about “low skilled inflation” harming the economy – he meant to say “low skilled immigration.”Mr Rajan became so frustrated with Mr Cleverly’s evasiveness he sarcastically thanked him for “giving me an economics lesson.” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak is set to say it is imperative that he “hold his nerve” to fulfil his “moral” duty to cut inflation as he resists growing calls to bail out struggling homeowners. The […] More
