Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email James Cleverly has said that failing to engage with China would be a “sign of weakness” in a speech setting out the government’s position on Beijing. The foreign secretary said the UK must […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email “Many more” flights carrying British nationals will leave Sudan into tomorrow, Rishi Sunak said as the first civilian evacuation plane out of conflict-torn Khartoum landed in Cyprus. The prime minister said “over a […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Scotland’s External Affairs Secretary has written to the foreign secretary to express the Scottish government’s “deep concern” over the current conflict in Sudan. Angus Robertson said a number of Scots and family members […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Sudan will experience a “humanitarian catastrophe”, the Africa minister has said. Andrew Mitchell told the Foreign Affairs Committee that the position in terms of food and the lack of humanitarian relief workers will […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The Bank of England’s chief economist is facing backlash for suggesting households “need to accept” they will be poorer. Huw Pill said workers asking for higher pay and shopkeepers putting up prices were […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Mobile phone users were thrown into confusion again after a government website announced a second emergency alert, just days after the nationwide alarm did not go entirely to plan. A page viewable on […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour would make spiking a specific offence in order to tackle a “terrifying rise” in the crime, Sir Keir Starmer has pledged. The Labour leader said spiking was a “pernicious, dangerous and hateful […] 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 MPs debate issues around water quality and sewage during opposition day in the House of Commons. Labour has tabled a motion on providing parliamentary time next week for the Water […] More
