Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has suggested he is willing to overrule the House of Lords and ram the small boats bill through parliament amid opposition to his plans. The prime minister hinted he was open […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The senior civil servant who oversaw the Partygate inquiry is expected is expected to join Sir Keir Starmer’s team this year after being given the green light by a government watchdog. Sue Gray is said […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The government is still being “too slow” to recover taxpayer money lost to fraud and error over the pandemic, MPs have said. The cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has also warned Whitehall needs […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Artificial intelligence (AI) could have the capability to be behind advances that “kill many humans” in only two years’ time, according to Rishi Sunak’s adviser on the technology. Matt Clifford said that unless […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The UK was hugely unprepared for the Covid crisis because of years of austerity overseen by David Cameron and George Osborne, according to a new report. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) said that funding […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Keir Starmer previously told banned Labour mayor Jamie Driscoll that he wanted to “unify the party” before blocking him from standing, it has emerged. In a friendly sit-down interview with Mr Driscoll during […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The benefits of the first Covid-19 lockdown were “a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs” it imposed, a study has claimed. Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Lund University […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Matt Hancock has been told to apologise to Parliament after being found to have breached the MPs Code of Conduct. The former health secretary was found to have committed a “minor breach” of […] More
