Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The UK Statistics Authority criticised a graph used by health secretary Steve Barclay’s department which showed “how nurses’ pay has gone up”. It comes as NHS ambulance workers across England […] More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email England’s poorest students will lose £1,000 because the government botched inflation forecasts, experts say, plunging them into “significant hardship”. Ministers are under fire for setting the level of maintenance loans […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Labour today accused the government of “botching” its windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas companies by leaving loopholes which the party calculates will cost the public finances £17bn. In a challenge to Jeremy […] More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The former head of UK counter-terror policing has called Suella Braverman’s language on migrants “inexplicable” and compared it to Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech. Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Neil […] More
Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight The British car industry is warning government that “rapid action” is needed to secure the long term future of what is still a major […] More
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The government has removed measures from its Online Safety Bill which would have forced social media sites to take down material designated “legal but harmful”, in what Labour called a “major weakening” of the legislation.Some Conservative MPs had previously warned that the axed measures could threaten free speech and could lead to “political censorship”.Culture secretary Michelle Donelan argued that removing these aspects of the much-delayed bill would help to finally get it “into law”. More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email A “member of the government” briefed false negative stories about Martin Lewis to a newspaper during this summer’s Tory leadership campaign, the money saving expert has claimed. Appearing at a […] More
