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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The European Union’s ambition to lead the way on ecological issues avoided a major setback Thursday when the environment committee of the European Parliament voted by the thinnest margin to reject a proposal […] 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 said Thursday he believes the European Union will finalize a controversial pact on migration while his country holds the bloc’s rotating presidency. Sánchez set out his nation’s key […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Downing Street staff regularly broke Covid rules and engaged in a “pantomime” to stop their behaviour becoming public, the inquiry into Boris Johnson’s conduct has been told. In a written submission to the […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A Boris Johnson loyalist has warned Tory MPs they face losing their seats if they back a damning report which found he deliberately misled parliament over Partygate. MPs who support it were “fundamentally […] More

Liz Truss resigned as prime minister “because the lettuce was better than her”, Labour MP Jess Phillips has said.Speaking about the controversy around Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, the shadow minister took a passing shot at his successor.“We forget this all the time, Boris Johnson resigned because he covered up for Chris Pincher, and Liz Truss resigned because the lettuce was better than her,” Ms Phillips said, referencing the infamous Daily Star live stream of the iceberg lettuce that outlasted her.“They left in disgrace for crashing the economy, and Partygate, and all the rest of it.” More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Boris Johnson has lashed out at MPs investigating his claims about the Partygate scandal in a desperate attempt to salvage his reputation after he was accused of “repeated contempts” of parliament. The long-awaited […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The long-awaited investigation by MPs on the privileges committee into whether Boris Johnson lied to parliament over the Partygate scandal has finally been published. The findings come more than a year after the […] More