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
Carol Vorderman has savagely branded Boris Johnson a ‘dose of diarrhoea’ amid fresh lockdown breach allegations.The TV host appeared on Have I Got News For You last night (26 May), where they reviewed some of the biggest stories from the week.“What a shower, ey? What an absolute shower!”, she said of the rumours, which involve repeated breaches at Downing Street and Chequers.“I can’t believe they’re our government. I mean, Boris Johnson is like a dose of diarrhoea that keeps on giving.”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 has been told by Conservative MPs that he may have to sack his home secretary Suella Braverman if the government fails to tackle the small boats crisis and soaring migration numbers. […] More
Boris Johnson refused to answer whether his political career is ‘over’ if accusations of ‘further lockdown breaches’ are proven to be true.The former prime minister blasted the accusations of ‘repeated breaches’ from Chequers and Downing Street to be ‘a load of absolute nonsense’.When questioned by Sky News on whether he’d be stepping back from politics he replied: “The answer is that, as I said before, there was absolutely no rule-breaking.””Those who want to make allegations shall make allegations…and so far no one has.”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 A flustered Boris Johnson has branded suggestions he may have taken part in further rule-breaking during the pandemic “a load of absolute nonsense”. The former prime minister would not say who he believes […] More
