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 government has been accused of “ignoring” an official recommendation to pay NHS staff who can’t work because they caught long Covid at work. Ministers have reportedly been told that […] More
The government’s so-called “festival of Brexit” will be probed amid concerns that £120 million of taxpayers’ cash was “frittered away” on a project that brought “so little in return”.MPs in a cross-party parliamentary committee have approached the National Audit Office (NAO) to ask it to look into how the project was managed and whether political pressures kept it going.The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee had found that the number of visitors to the event – called ‘Unboxed: Creativity in the UK’ – was just 0.36 per cent of early targets. More
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Hello there, I’m Matt Mathers and welcome to The Independent’s Inside Politics newsletter. Beware – the anti-growth coalition is out in force this morning. Its members could be […] More
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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 Liz Truss’s legislation to tear up post-Brexit arrangements for the Irish border will bring “new levels of economic and political uncertainty” for Northern Ireland, a new […] 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 Dozens of trade unions and charities have urged the government to raise the UK’s “miserly” sick pay rate to the living wage and scrap loopholes that penalise low-paid workers. Employees […] 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 Kwasi Kwarteng must reverse his tax-cutting plans or impose a “savage” £60bn austerity hit to public services, experts and rebel Tories have warned. Britain is set for recession until 2024, […] 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 former Labour shadow minister has been de-selected in his constituency. After weeks of campaigning in the safe Labour seat of Ilford South, Sam Tarry failed to see off a […] More
