Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email It’s been a dramatic week in UK politics, with an explosive cabinet reshuffle, a high-profile sacking and an astonishing political comeback. The departure of home secretary Suella Braverman on Monday was followed swiftly […] More
James Cleverly appeared to forget his new job title of home secretary as he was in the middle of a speech on Thursday, 16 November.The former foreign secretary was speaking at the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and National Police Chiefs Council joint summit when he said: “I want you to feel that you can speak with me and my team at the Foreign… Old habits die hard” as laughter broke out in the audience.It comes after Mr Cleverly insisted ministers are “absolutely determined” to get a removal flight to Rwanda before the next election after the deportation policy was ruled unlawful. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour rebels who quit or were sacked over a rebellion on Gaza could rejoin Keir Starmer’s top team after the election, the shadow defence secretary has suggested. It comes as the party seeks […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour rebels who quit or were sacked over a rebellion on the question of a ceasefire in Gaza could rejoin Sir Keir Starmer’s top team after the election, the shadow defence secretary has […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer suffered a major revolt among his own MPs on Wednesday evening when no fewer than 56, including 10 of his frontbenchers, defied the whip to back a […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The center-right lawmaker whose new party is riding so high in polls ahead of next week’s Dutch election that he could become a kingmaker in coalition talks said Thursday that he has fundamental […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as James Cleverly addresses the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and National Police Chiefs Council joint summit on Thursday, 16 November, after the government’s Rwanda deportation policy was ruled unlawful. It […] More
James Cleverly said he “doesn’t recognise” a claim he called the Rwanda deportation scheme “batshit.”Yvette Cooper suggested the new home secretary never personally believed in the plan as she questioned him in the Commons about what ministers will do now the Supreme Court has ruled it unlawful.“He distanced himself from it and his predecessor’s language on it. He may even on occasion have privately called it ‘batshit’,” Ms Cooper added.Mr Cleverly told Sky News: “I don’t recognise that phrase… the Rwanda scheme is an important part, but only a part, of the range of responses we have to illegal migration.” More
