Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The House of Commons is voting on the King’s Speech on Wednesday, which was delivered by His Majesty King Charles III last week and laid out the legislative agenda the Conservative government plans […] More
Protesters disrupted Yvette Cooper’s speech in the House of Commons as she spoke about the Israel-Hamas conflict on Wednesday, 15 November.A group of around five or six people were removed from the public gallery after holding up “Ceasefire now” signs during the King’s Speech debate.Doorkeepers approached the group and removed them from the public gallery.Extinction Rebellion (XR) claimed responsibility for the protest.It comes as Labour MPs were due to be subject to a three-line whip to abstain on the SNP’s amendment to the King’s Speech calling for a ceasefire. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Bangladesh’s expected parliamentary elections will be held on Jan. 7, electoral authorities announced Wednesday, but the opposition reiterated its vow to boycott the polls unless the government hands power to a caretaker administration. […] More
With Suella Braverman’s remarks about protests taking place on Remembrance Day and her widely condemned comments on homelessness in the UK, prime minister Rishi Sunak sacked his home secretary in a reshuffle to save the presumed fate of his government.The prime minister surprised all by bringing back former prime minister David Cameron as his new foreign secretary, following James Cleverly’s move to the Home Office. But do the changes show just how bare the Conversative party’s options are with ministerial talent?John Rentoul answers your questions about the past week in Westminster. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak was told to ignore the law and “get the planes in the air” by the deputy chairman of the Conservative party as he faced a furious backlash from Tory MPs over […] More
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Laughter rang out in the House of Commons as Rishi Sunak was asked to name David Cameron’s “finest foreign policy achievement” during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 15 November.The former Conservative prime minister made a shock return to government on Monday after being appointed foreign secretary in a cabinet reshuffle.Lord Cameron stood down as prime minister and quit as an MP after losing the Brexit referendum, which he had called, in 2016.He will avoid regular grillings by MPs because of his position in the House of Lords. More
The SNP’s Westminster leader has called on Rishi Sunak to allow a free vote on a ceasefire in Gaza.Stephen Flynn warned that if a ceasefire is not agreed immediately, MPs will only be “watching on” as Gaza is “turned into a graveyard”.“How much worse does it need to get? 4,609 children are already dead,” Mr Flynn said.“For members across the House, this is a question of values and it is a question of conscience. Does the prime minister not agree that should there be a vote on an immediate ceasefire, that members across the House should be afforded a free vote?” More
