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Rishi Sunak claims he will fix Britain’s ‘broken’ politics – after 13 years of Tory rule
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 attack the last 30 years of “broken” politics – much of it under successive Conservative governments – as he pledges to fundamentally reform the UK. In his first party conference […] More
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Sunak poised to make ‘incredible gaffe’ by axing HS2 in north but saving Euston link
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 been warned he is about to make an “incredible political gaffe” by scrapping HS2’s northern leg while saving the link into London Euston. The prime minister is expected to finally […] More
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Brexit: ‘Zero chance’ of UK-US trade deal under Joe Biden, says Kemi Badenoch
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 Business secretary Kemi Badenoch said that there is “zero” chance of the UK securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the US while Joe Biden […] More
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UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman wows some Conservatives and alarms others with hardline stance
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman railed against unauthorized migrants, human-rights laws and “woke” critics of her hardline policies Tuesday as she tried to secure her place as the flag-bearer of the Conservative Party’s […] More
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Suella Braverman claims ‘hurricane’ of migrants on way as she vows to close asylum hotels
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Home secretary Suella Braverman has warned that Britain faces a “hurricane” of migrants as she dialled up her anti-immigration rhetoric in a bid to appeal to the Tory faithful. The cabinet minister made […] More
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Surprising that Human Rights Act wasn’t called ‘Criminal Rights Act,’ says Suella Braverman
Suella Braverman suggested the Human Rights Act should have been called the “criminal rights act” during a speech at the Tory party conference on Tuesday, 3 October.”Our country has become enmeshed in a dense net of international rules that were designed for another era. And it is Labour that turbocharged their impact by passing the misnamed Human Rights Act,” the home secretary told an audience in Manchester.“I’m surprised they didn’t call it the ‘Criminal Rights Act’,” she added.Ms Braverman used her anti-immigration speech to claim that Britain faces a “hurricane” of migrants. More
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Watch: Tory heckler attempts to interrupt Suella Braverman speech
A Conservative member of the London Assembly was escorted out of the Tory party conference after he appeared to heckle Suella Braverman’s speech on Tuesday, 3 October.Andrew Boff was led away by police after declaring “there’s no such thing as gender ideology” while the home secretary was speaking about “those who fail to conform” are “chased out of their jobs for saying that a man can’t be a woman” when “the left gets the upper hand.”Ms Braverman continued with her speech after Mr Boff was led away. More
