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    Junior doctors strike ‘immediate risk to patient safety’, NHS chiefs warn

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email This week’s junior doctors’ strikes will pose immediate “risks to patient safety”, the head of the NHS Confederation has warned. Matthew Taylor said the stoppage would also have a longer-term “catastrophic impact” on […] More

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    Labour shadow minister left floundered after tense exchange over attack ads

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A Labour shadow minister was left floundering after being challenged over Sir Keir Starmer’s controversial attack on Rishi Sunak over child sex abusers. In tense exchanges on BBC Radio 4 Today shadow attorney […] More

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    Predicted 0.08% boost from UK-Asia trade deal could be overestimate

    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 The government’s prediction that its Brexit trade deal with Asia-Pacific countries will grow the economy by 0.08 per cent may be an overestimate, it […] More

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    Could a pact between Scottish Labour and Tories oust SNP?

    For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The idea of Labour and Tory strategists working together at the next general election – plotting over tactics and where to place their resources – sounds like an […] More

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    Yvette Cooper distances herself from Labour attack ads

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper was not told about the release of controversial advert attack claiming Rishi Sunak does not think child sex abusers should go to prison. The strategy has sparked a […] More