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
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Jeremy Hunt has warned those who “coast” on benefits will lose handouts if they refuse to take a job as part of a new crackdown. Claimants deemed fit to work, but who fail […] More
David Cameron and George Osborne appeared to mock Ed Balls after he stammered during a speech in the House of Commons in 2012, resurfaced footage shows.The former shadow chancellor was replying to the autumn statement when he appeared to have a hesitant start to his speech.At the time, Downing Street denied that Lord Cameron and Mr Osborne were laughing at Mr Balls because he was struggling with his speech problem.The clip has resurfaced after Mr Balls shared a tearful moment with Gareth Gates on Wednesday as they opened up about their stammers. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email James Cleverly has repeatedly refused to deny that he called Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation plan “batshit”. The new home secretary said he “doesn’t remember” describing the scheme that way after Yvette Cooper claimed […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A former Supreme Court Justice has slammed Rishi Sunak’s latest plan to save his beleaguered Rwanda scheme as “profoundly discreditable” and said it will not work. Jonathan Sumption said an attempt by ministers […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Expert groups and children’s charities could be allowed to submit super-complaints to Ofcom under the powers of the Online Safety Act. The Government has launched a consultation seeking views on the possibility of […] More
