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 Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are being urged to end their silence on the “national emergency” of energy costs hitting £3,600 in just two months, after Labour vowed to freeze […] 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 Sir Keir Starmer has announced his plan to tackle soaring energy bills this winter, calling runaway household fuel costs a “national emergency”. During a media blitz on Monday morning, the […] 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 An eight-year-old charity fundraiser given an award by Boris Johnson interrupted proceedings to quiz the outgoing prime minister about breaking his own Covid rules. Carmela Watson visited Downing Street for […] 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 Liz Truss will introduce an emergency budget “within a matter of weeks” of becoming prime minister, one of her allies has said. The timing announcement comes after Labour laid out […] 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 Boris Johnson will only work on his second summer holiday if it is “urgent”, No 10 has admitted – as two huge removal vans arrived outside the famous front door. […] More
Ministers need to announce another £12 billion of help for households to keep pace with higher than expected energy prices forecast for this autumn, a leading financial think tank has warned. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the money was required if the government still wanted to provide the same level of aid it set out this spring.The effect of that support, unveiled by the then chancellor Rishi Sunak, has shrunk as predicted energy bills skyrocket. More
A senior Conservative MP has defended Boris Johnson’s work ethic and claimed he is “continuing to work” while away on his second holiday in two weeks.The prime minister, who has less than a month left in office, has now reportedly jetted off to Greece for a week – shortly after returning from an earlier trip.The holidays are taking place despite surging inflation and the threat of a looming recession. 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 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has insisted his energy price freeze will have the “double benefit” of curbing inflation as he defended his decision to go on holiday during the […] More
