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    Revealed: Ukraine’s chilling warning to Tony Blair about Putin two decades before invasion

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Newly unsealed government documents reveal that Tony Blair received a chilling warning that Ukraine feared the West was nurturing too “rosy” a view of Vladimir Putin – two decades before Russia’s invasion. At […] More

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    Keir Starmer hits back at Labour critics of child benefit U-turn

    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 hit back at critics of his plan to uphold the Tories’ two-child benefit cap. The Labour leader suggested there were some within his party who agreed with the need […] More

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    Private sector tech experts to be seconded to Civil Service, minister says

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Hundreds of technology and data experts from the private sector will reportedly be seconded to the Civil Service under a new Government scheme. Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin, who is due to deliver […] More

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    Labour has to take the tough decisions on spending, says Starmer

    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 said his party is having to make “tough decisions” ahead of the next election as he appeared to defend his stance on maintaining the two-child benefit cap. There has been […] More

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    Labour MPs launch bid to block Keir Starmer over two-child benefit cap

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A group of Labour MPs has launched a bid to block Keir Starmer’s policy on the two-child benefit cap, amid a backlash in the party over the issue. The MPs are urging Labour’s […] More

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    Cleverly calls for global cooperation at first UN Security Council meeting on AI

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email James Cleverly called for global governance of artificial intelligence as it “knows no borders” at the first UN Security Council meeting on the issue. The Foreign Secretary said the technology would “fundamentally alter […] More