Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Rishi Sunak’s government has been condemned over its failure to bring thousands of Afghans who worked with British forces to safety in the UK years despite repeated promises to do so. Labour’s shadow […] More
Scottish National Party MP Kirsty Blackman criticised the “pomp” of Tuesday’s State Opening of Parliament amid the cost of living crisis.Appearing on the BBC to discuss King Charles III’s first delivery to parliament as monarch, Ms Blackman questioned if all the “sapphires and rubies” on display were the “right image that anybody wants to be to be seeing”.“People are sitting at home unable to pay their electricity bills and they’re sitting at home trying to work out how they are getting to the next week,” she said.“And then you see all of this pomp and ceremony, you hear about these sapphires and rubies, and it just feels so far removed from the daily lives and the daily struggles that so many people are going through.” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The government is considering a new tax on vapes as part of a drive to create a ‘smokefree generation’. Documents published alongside the King’s Speech show the government will explore “a new duty […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch live as parliament debates the government’s legislative agenda set out in a speech by King Charles III at the state opening of parliament earlier in the day. Rishi Sunak insisted he has […] More
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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 revealed plans to make law and order a key election battleground with a series of measures promising tougher sentences for killers and rapists in the King’s Speech. The prime minister […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Department of Health (DHSC) staff were “not concerned” about discharging elderly people into care homes with Covid until months after the pandemic struck, the official pandemic probe has heard. An email thread between […] More
Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s mother became emotional after discussing new laws to ensure criminals attend their sentencing hearings which were included in the King’s Speech on Tuesday (7 November).Thomas Cashman was jailed for life after he shot and killed Cheryl Korbel’s nine-year-old daughter at her home in Liverpool, on 22 August 2022.He refused to come up to the dock when he was sentenced.Ms Korbel told Good Morning Britain the “silence” is the hardest part of her life since her daughter was killed and praised the proposed law change as “a very important step forward.” More
