Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak’s wife is a shareholder in a childcare agency that will benefit from a major new policy announced in chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s recent March Budget. The PM did not mention Akshata Murty’s […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The use of barges and cruise ships to house asylum seekers was ruled out by the Treasury while Rishi Sunak was chancellor, The Independent has learned. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick told parliament that […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Jeremy Corbyn won’t be missed by Labour, frontbencher Wes Streeting has said after the left-wing ex-leader was blocked from standing for the party at the next general election. The shadow health secretary claimed […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as Dominic Raab, the deputy prime minister, takes questions in parliament during PMQs on Wednesday 29 March. Rishi Sunak was absent from the chamber as he was attending the funeral of former […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A senior SNP MP has been cleared of bullying the former Tory minister Nadine Dorries after a six-month investigation by the parliamentary authorities. John Nicolson is understood to have been investigated 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 Dominic Raab has said he believes “heart and soul” that he is not a bully but defended his “forthright” approach to his work. The deputy prime minister is under investigation over eight formal […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as Jeremy Hunt speaks to parliament’s Treasury committee about the Budget he announced on 15 March. The chancellor laid out a range of policies in his announcement, including plans to boost pensions, […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as Humza Yousaf is sworn in as Scotland’s first minister on Wednesday 29 March. The ceremony at the Court of Session in Edinburgh saw the 37-year-old make his statutory declarations, after which […] More
