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    More emergency alert confusion as government backtracks on second alarm

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Mobile phone users were thrown into confusion again after a government website announced a second emergency alert, just days after the nationwide alarm did not go entirely to plan. A page viewable on […] More

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    Labour promises ‘tough’ new law against spiking to protect women and girls

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour would make spiking a specific offence in order to tackle a “terrifying rise” in the crime, Sir Keir Starmer has pledged. The Labour leader said spiking was a “pernicious, dangerous and hateful […] More

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    Watch live as MPs debate sewage during parliament opposition day

    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 MPs debate issues around water quality and sewage during opposition day in the House of Commons. Labour has tabled a motion on providing parliamentary time next week for the Water […] More

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    Covid inquiry demands Tory ministers hand over WhatsApp messages

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Conservative ministers and top civil servants will have to hand over WhatsApp messages to the Covid inquiry, the chairman of the official probe has said. Baroness Hallett made clear that she would use […] More

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    Michael Gove desperate to appear on Strictly, says ex-wife

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Cabinet minister Michael Gove is “desperate” to take part in Strictly Come Dancing, his ex-wife Sarah Vine has claimed. The levelling up secretary – once captured raving in an Aberdeen nightclub – is […] More

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    Isolating China is ‘betrayal of national interest’, James Cleverly to say

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email James Cleverly will claim isolating China is a “betrayal” of the national interest in a speech setting out the government’s position on Beijing. The foreign secretary will say the UK must engage directly […] More

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    Labour to push Commons vote on opposition bill to end sewage dumping

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Tory MPs have been told they face “judgment day” as Labour plans to force a binding vote on draft legislation aimed at bringing an end to sewage dumping. The party said it will […] More

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    Fake reviews and subscription traps to be banned under new bill

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A regulator is to police the “excessive dominance” of big technology platforms with the power to fine them up to 10 per cent of their global turnover under new legislation. The Digital Markets […] More