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    Rishi Sunak finally gives his verdict on Boris Johnson’s Partygate lies

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has finally given his verdict on Boris Johnson’s Partygate lies, saying it is right the disgraced former prime ministerhas been held to account. In a final humiliation on Monday MPs backed […] More

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    David Cameron: My wife Samantha convinced me to introduce gay marriage

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email David Cameron’s wife Samantha “convinced” him to press ahead with legalising same-sex marriage, the former prime minister has revealed. Despite internal opposition from some within the Conservative Party, Mr Cameron said he “kept […] More

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    Tories face ‘blue wall’ wipeout from mortgage time bomb

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak is facing a wipeout in the Tories’ “blue wall” seats in the south of England over a backlash from mortgage holders hit by soaring borrowing costs. Constituencies in the south-east are […] More

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    Watch as Sunak and Starmer clash in first PMQs since Partygate vote

    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 faces Sir Keir Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday 21 June. It was their first clash since the Partygate vote, with Boris Johnson’s shadow still looming large over […] More

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    Keir Starmer plans to stuff House of Lords with Labour peers

    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 is said to be drawing up plans to appoint dozens of Labour peers to the House of Lords to stop his agenda for government being frustrated by the upper chamber. […] More

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    Jeremy Hunt calls mortgage crisis summit as experts urge banks to help those struggling

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Ministers have waded into the unfolding mortgage crisis, piling pressure on lenders to be “flexible” with those struggling to keep up with soaring repayments. Jeremy Hunt has summoned bosses from Britain’s leading banks […] More