Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The head of Finland’s conservative National Coalition Party, which came first in April 2 elections, said Thursday he would start talks to form a center-right coalition government that would see power-sharing with a […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Suella Braverman is facing a mounting backlash for claiming Channel migrants have “values at odds with our country” – including from a Right-wing Tory MP. The home secretary was criticised by backbencher Jonathan […] 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 has said he has a “gut feeling” that comments by one of his MPs were antisemitic. Labour suspended the whip from Diane Abbott after she wrote to the Observer newspaper suggesting […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Suella Braverman has failed to offer statistical evidence to back her claim that migrants crossing the English Channel are linked to “heightened levels of criminality” as the government’s immigration legislation cleared the Commons. […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Air evacuations from Sudan can continue even if a fragile ceasefire breaks, military chiefs said on Wednesday, as the first flight carrying British nationals arrived back in Britain. The commander in charge of […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A long-awaited shakeup of gambling industry regulations aimed at protecting punters from problem gambling is set to be published. The White Paper, first promised in December 2020, will be the biggest overhaul of […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Deputy Conservative party chair Lee Anderson engaged in an “aggressive” confrontation with MP Andrew Bridgen and a former Tory councillor in a parliamentary dining room. The deputy chair was said to have told […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour’s Jess Phillips is under investigation by a parliamentary watchdog over a potential breach of rules governing the declaration of MPs’ interests. The Standards Commissioner opened a probe on 24 April into a […] More
