Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Senior Tories have condemned plans to strip the right to free prescriptions from benefits claimants who don’t look for work, warning that the government risks descending into the politics of “hate”. Former deputy […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Tory infighting over Rishi Sunak’s beleaguered Rwanda plan has descended into civil war as a former deputy prime minister compared Suella Braverman to Vladimir Putin. Damian Green, deputy PM under Theresa May, said […] More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The average family could be expected to pay £120 more a year in council tax despite Jeremy Hunt’s plans to cut inheritance tax in half for the UK’s richest households, according to reports. […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Hungary’s government on Friday released a set of questions for an informal survey it will send to voters on a number of divisive issues including migration, LGBTQ+ rights and support for Ukraine, including […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Sacked home secretary Suella Braverman has launched a fresh attack on Rishi Sunak and said his plan to revive the Rwanda deportation scheme will fail unless he implements her five-point plan. Mrs Braverman, […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Jeremy Hunt is considering cutting inheritance tax in half and lowering taxes for small businesses with his autumn statement next Wednesday. The chancellor has been handed a financial boost as official forecasters told […] More
Scotland’s health secretary has apologised as he revealed how his teenage sons used his Holyrood-issued iPad to watch football matches while on holiday in Morocco – resulting in a bill of almost £11,000 in data roaming charges for the device.Michael Matheson made a personal statement to MSPs a week after a row erupted about the charges.He initially insisted he had been using the device for parliamentary work during the trip, which he went on with his wife and two sons shortly after Christmas last year.But amid increasing demands to explain the data charges – which amounted to a total of £10,935.74 – Mr Matheson told MSPs that members of his family had “made use of the iPad’s data”. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Sacked home secretary Suella Braverman has been accused of wanting to do ‘what Putin and Xi do’ in her latest bid to ensure deportation flights to Rwanda can take off. Mrs Braverman, dismissed […] More
