Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Closing the gender pay gap will help boost Britain’s flagging economy, Labour has said. Writing for The Independent to mark the anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, deputy leader Angela Rayner suggested better […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday called an early general election for July 23 in a surprise move after his Socialist party took a serious battering in local and regional elections. Prior […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email UK police will be tasked with helping security forces break up people-smuggling gangs in North African countries, it has been reported. National Crime Agency (NCA) officers are set to join nations in the […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email MPs claiming driving fines on expenses is “manifestly wrong”, the chair of Parliament’s sleaze watchdog has said. Labour MP Chris Bryant said members of the public cannot claim fines on their daily expenses, […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The health secretary has admitted that the government’s promised 40 new hospitals actually include “a range” of building works. Steve Barclay came under pressure to clarify the manifesto pledge – made under former […] More
Matt Hancock has been using TikTok’s ‘celebrity lookalikes’ filter to find out the famous faces that he’s apparently akin to.Much to the Independent MP’s surprise, the AI filter told him he resembled the likes of Anne Hathaway, rapper 50 Cent, and supermodel, Bella Hadid.“I don’t look anything like 50 Cent!”, he joked. “This is completely bonkers.”Since announcing he’d be leaving frontline politics before the next general election, Hancock has been acting more playfully on social media in a bid to win back the trust of young voters.Click here to sign up for our newsletters. More
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 reportedly set to ask retailers to place price caps on basic foods items, such as bread and milk, in an attempt to battle skyrocketing food inflation. Downing Street aides are […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Liz Truss is believed to be planning to hand out knighthoods and other awards to up to 12 of her allies following her short-lived premiership. Close supporters who helped orchestrate the former prime […] More
