Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email For over a decade, Shaun Bailey has tried and failed to get into parliament. Last week it looked like he might have finally made it – only for one last obstacle to be […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Cabinet minister Michael Gove has suggested that mortgage rates fixed for 25 years could help ease the crisis facing by homeowners facing spiralling monthly costs. Rishi Sunak’s government was urged to “end this […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as Jeremy Hunt is questioned by opposition MPs in the House of Commons on mortgage rates and the cost of living on Tuesday, 20 June. Labour’s Gerald Jones asked te chancellor what […] More
Shaun Bailey has apologised “unreservedly” after a video emerged of his Tory campaign team drinking and dancing at a gathering during lockdown in December 2020.At the time, lockdown rules meant that six people were allowed to meet socially distanced outside.The video emerged after the former London mayoral candidate was offered a peerage by former prime minister Boris Johnson, who was found by the Privileges Committee to have misled Parliament over parties at Downing Street during Covid lockdowns.Mr Bailey said the event “obviously turned into something once I left and I didn’t realise that.” More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Watch live as George Osborne gives evidence to the Covid inquiry on Tuesday, 20 June. The former chancellor must be “taken to task” over austerity-era cuts that left the country “so unprepared” for […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Boris Johnson has endured a final humiliation over the Partygate scandal in parliament as MPs backed the scathing report which found he deliberately lied to the Commons and just seven Tories voted in […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The chair of the Commons privileges committee Harriet Harriet has defended the work of her panel and condemned Boris Johnson’s Partygate lies – saying all prime ministers “must tell the truth”. The senior […] More
David Cameron was heckled as he left the Covid Inquiry on Monday, 19 June, after giving evidence.Shouts of “shame on you” were heard as the former prime minister made his way out of the hearing in London.The former Conservative leader told the inquiry it was a “mistake” for his government to focus too heavily on preparations for combating a wave of flu rather than a coronavirus-like pandemic.Mr Cameron his government’s austerity cuts which have been blamed for leaving the NHS in a “parlous state” before the pandemic hit. More
