Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Nadine Dorries was referred to the Tory chief whip by the UK’s top civil servant over claims she sent “forceful” messages to senior civil servants after she was blocked for a peerage in Boris […] 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 Rishi Sunak speaks at the Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on Wednesday 12 July after private talks with Volodymyr Zelensky. The pair met privately to discuss plans to provide Kyiv with […] More
The single best way to get out of poverty is by getting a job, Oliver Dowden told MPs at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 12 July.The deputy prime minister filled in for Rishi Sunak this afternoon while the prime minister attended a Nato summit in Lithuania.Mr Dowden told the House of Commons: “The single best route out of poverty is a job and record numbers of people… under this government have got a job.”It comes after the Office for National Statistics released figures showing that the unemployment rate for March to May 2023 increased by 0.2 percentage points on the quarter to 4 per cent. 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 been urged to keep an independent appeals process for removing harmful online content from platforms such as TikTok and OnlyFans. Conservative peer Baroness Newlove has written to Rishi Sunak and […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Electric car drivers will only need one app to pay for public chargepoints operated by different companies, under legislation laid in Parliament. Motorists are currently forced to use multiple smartphone apps or membership […] More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The Home Office has moved asylum seekers into an Essex military base despite being embroiled in an ongoing legal challenge over using the site to house 1,700 people. The first migrants arrived at […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch live as Oliver Dowden faces Angela Rayner at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) on Wednesday, 12 July. The deputy prime minister is filling in for Rishi Sunak, who is at a Nato summit […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The European Union’s parliament on Wednesday approved in a cliffhanger vote a major bill to protect nature and fight climate change. In a test of the EU’s global climate credentials, the legislature supported […] More
