Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Two new all-Ireland research centres on climate and sustainable food are to be created with funding of 70 million euro (£60.7 million). The funding will bring together academics, industry and policymakers across the […] 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 Watch live as the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) addresses MPs about Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement on Tuesday (28 November). The chancellor announced tax cuts, tighter welfare rules, […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Senior Tory Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned Rishi Sunak he must wake up and act or lose the next general election, in an extraordinary attack on his own party. The Boris Johnson ally […] More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Watch as Michael Gove gives evidence to the Covid inquiry on Tuesday, 28 November. The housing secretary, who was Duchy of Lancaster during the first 18 months of the pandemic, previously told the […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Ministers have dropped plans to ban pupils from changing their gender identity in schools after being warned it would be illegal, it has been revealed. New guidance for schools, expected to be published […] More
James Cleverly apologised in the Commons for using “inappropriate language” against a Labour MP but denied he called Stockton a “s*******”.The Home Secretary was accused of making the remark after Labour’s Alex Cunningham challenged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over the level of child poverty in his Stockton North constituency. Mr Cleverly told MPs on Monday (27 November): “I know what I said. I rejected the accusation that I criticised his constituency.“My criticism, which I made from a sedentary position, about the honourable gentleman used inappropriate language for which I apologise.“But I will not accept that my criticism was of his constituency because it was not.”Mr Cunningham said: “He has not apologised to me, he’s not apologised to the people of my constituency, he has apologised for using unparliamentary language.” More
Boris Johnson ‘not aware’ other countries had imposed Covid lockdowns, says Sadiq Khan More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Matt Hancock implemented the tier 3 Covid restrictions despite knowing they would not work, the Covid inquiry has heard. In the former health secretary’s evidence to the probe on the measures which saw […] More
