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    Single-sex schools will be able to refuse transgender pupils

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Single-sex schools will be allowed to refuse transgender pupils under new education guidelines planned by Rishi Sunak’s government, it has emerged. Amid fears of legal action from parents, head teachers of all girls’ […] More

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    SNP treasurer Colin Beattie arrested in party finances probe

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The treasurer of the SNP has been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the party’s finances, Police Scotland has said. Colin Beattie, 71, was taken into custody on Tuesday morning and […] More

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    Tory election candidate suspended over Facebook posts about ‘invasion of Islam’ and ‘stoning’ refugees

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A Tory candidate for the local elections has been suspended after posting on Facebook about an “invasion of Islam” and “stoning migrants”. Stuart Peach was standing to be elected as a Conservative councillor […] More

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    Rishi Sunak’s cabinet secretary sued for ‘discrimination and harassment’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The cabinet secretary Simon Case is being sued by a former Treasury official for “discrimination and harassment”. Rishi Sunak’s top official at No 10 is among those named in an employment tribunal claim, […] More

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    Jeremy Corbyn accuses Keir Starmer of ‘primary school stuff’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Jeremy Corbyn has said that Sir Keir Starmer’s claims that the pair were never friends is “primary school stuff”. The former Labour leader – blocked from running as the party’s candidate in Islington North – […] More

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    Rishi Sunak faces probe by ethics watchdog over Budget ‘benefit’ to wife’s shares in childcare agency

    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 under investigation by parliament’s sleaze watchdog over allegations of a possible failure to declare the shares held by his wife in a childcare agency boosted by the recent Budget. The prime minister is […] More

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    Starmer needs attack ads because Labour can’t count on right-wing press, says Mandelson

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email New Labour architect Peter Mandelson has backing Labour’s controversial attack ads against Rishi Sunak because the party can’t count on right-wing newspapers to “do it on their behalf”. The latest invention comes as Wes […] More