Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak will kick plans for a ban on gay and trans conversion therapy into the long grass, as dozens of Tory MPs urged the prime minister not to include it in the […] 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 is considering several eye-catching tax cuts to win back Tory voters after two by-election drubbings this week. The prime minister is said to be looking at raising the threshold for the […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Zac Goldsmith and Nadine Dorries have launched a fresh attack on Rishi Sunak, urging anyone who cares about animal welfare to vote against the Conservatives at the next election. Lord Goldsmith, a Tory […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Questions abound following a historic Tory by-election trouncing, in which Sir Keir Starmer jubilantly declared Labour was “redrawing the political map”. The Labour leader said Tory voters were turning to them because they […] 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 has said a crossing that will deliver vital aid to Gaza should open “imminently” after talks with Egyptian and Palestinian leaders. The Prime Minister said that getting trucks with crucial supplies […] More
Rishi Sunak told reporters that sending humanitarian aid to Gaza is his “immediate priority” as he prepared to leave Cairo following meetings with Egyptian and Palestinian leaders on Friday, 20 October.The prime minister held talks with president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.Downing Street said Mr Sunak expressed his “deep condolences” for the loss of civilian lives in Gaza, including in the blast at the Al Ahli hospital earlier this week. Speaking to Sky News, Mr Sunak said: “We all share a vision of a future where Palestinian people can live with dignity, freedom, and security.” More
Labour’s double by-election victory is the “second coming of Blairism,” The Independent’s chief political commentator John Rentoul has said.Huge Tory majorities were overturned in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire, the latter of which was the biggest in British by-election history.“These are the sort of results Tony Blair got as leader of the opposition,” Mr Rentoul told TalkTV on Friday, 20 October.“It suggests that Labour is heading for that kind of swing in a general election… We’re not talking about an absolutely huge Labour majority… but it’s certainly looking pretty good for them.” More
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 This week industry bosses told The Independent electric cars could cost British motorists an extra £6,000. The anticipated hike all comes down to whether […] More
