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    Michael Gove says 25-year fixed rates could ease mortgage crisis

    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

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    Watch: Jeremy Hunt questioned on mortgage rates and cost of living

    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

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    ‘The buck stops with me’: Shaun Bailey reacts to Partygate video leak

    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

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    Watch live: George Osborne gives evidence to Covid-19 inquiry

    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

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    ‘Shame on you!’: David Cameron heckled whilst leaving Covid Inquiry

    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