Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A Labour MP who billed taxpayers for a £55 parking ticket has been promoted in Sir Keir Starmer’s reshuffle. Abena Oppong-Asare has been handed the women’s health and mental health brief just weeks […] More
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Watch the full PMQs exchange between Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday 6 September.The prime minister was grilled on what he knew about the crumbling concrete crisis, with the government releasing a full list of schools affected by the issue just minutes before the session started.Despite being on the back foot, Mr Sunak said the government acted “decisively” on the Raac crisis and called Mr Starmer “Captain Hindsight”.The Labour leader, meanwhile, likened the Tories to “cowboy builders” and accused them of letting schools crumble. 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 published the full list of schools so far identified to be affected by Raac concrete. The list, published just 30 minutes before Rishi Sunak faced the Commons for prime minister’s […] More
Rishi Sunak has accused the Labour Party and Sir Keir Starmer of “punishing” hardworking families with the London Ulez expansion.The prime minister said it is “disappointing” that Sir Keir “allowed the Labour mayor to introduce Ulez, charging hardworking people £12.50 every time they start their car”.“All I can say, Mr Speaker, is that while we focus on helping hard-working families, all he does is punish them,” Mr Sunak claimed, suggesting the Ulez expansion only “adds to the burden of the cost of living”. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The Conservatives have been handed huge £5m donation from a millionaire healthcare entrepreneur, as the party relies on a select group of mega-rich backers to boost its coffers. Frank Hester, founder and chief executive […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour will attempt to force ministers to publish documents detailing the full extent of the crumbling concrete crisis facing Britain. The party plans to force a vote to “reveal information about the full […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Tests are being carried out on the Houses of Parliament for a form of crumbling concrete that has already caused chaos with the closure of more than 100 schools. Surveyors are on the […] More
