Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The BBC faced an escalating crisis Saturday over its suspension of former soccer star and program host Gary Lineker for comments criticizing the British government’s new asylum policy. As a growing number of […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Cross-party MPs have called for a ban on electric shock therapy as a mental health treatment in England and want an urgent inquiry into the practice carried out. MPs told The Independent they […] More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Star presenters staged an extraordinary mutiny on Friday night after the BBC told Gary Lineker to step down from Match of the Day after a row over his likening of the government’s immigration […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Pupils should be asked to complete their coursework and essays under exam conditions in schools following the emergence of artificial intelligence systems, Ofqual’s chief regulator has suggested. Jo Saxton, chief regulator of Ofqual, […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Universal Credit claimants could be left to wait until April 2024 for the government to fix a faulty operative system. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was found to only be correcting […] 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 agreed to give nearly half a billion pounds to France in a bid to tackle illegal immigration, it was announced today, as he hailed a “new beginning” in Anglo-Franco relations. […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch live as Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron hold a joint news conference after their bilateral summit. The prime minister arrived in Paris on Friday (10 March) hoping to “strengthen and deepen” cooperation […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Paying France hundreds of millions of pounds more to stop small boats leaving their shores will provide value for money for taxpayers, Rishi Sunak suggested today as travelled to Paris in a bid […] More
