More stories

  • in

    Blueprint for Labour’s 2024 election manifesto is leaked

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email An early blueprint spelling out the policies that could form Labour’s next election manifesto has been leaked. The plans, drawn up by party policy chiefs, include commitments to raising taxes on private schools […] More

  • in

    Zelensky should be allowed to speak at Eurovision, Rishi Sunak says

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky should be allowed to address the Eurovision song contest final on Saturday night despite a ruling by its organisers, Rishi Sunak has said. The prime minister’s spokeman said Mr […] More

  • in

    UK government decides to keep EU ‘bendy bananas’ regulation despite Brexit

    Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight EU rules regulating the curvature of bananas will remain in British law despite a government purge of Brussels regulations. The famous Commission regulation 1333/2011 […] More

  • in

    Keir Starmer ditches plans for autobiography and returns £18k advance

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has abandoned plans to write an autobiography and will return a hefty advance to his publisher. Sir Keir said last year that he had begun penning a book […] More

  • in

    A-level students still learning about floppy disks but not AI, Parliament told

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A-level computer science students are still learning about floppy disks, but not artificial intelligence (AI), Parliament was told. Labour peer Lord Knight of Weymouth, chief education adviser at TES Global Ltd, a digital […] More