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    Keir Starmer reacts to ‘beach Ken’ insult from Penny Mordaunt

    Sir Keir Starmer has responded to Penny Mordaunt calling him “beach Ken with no balls” during a Commons business statement this week.The leader of the House of Commons was responding to the Labour leader calling Rishi Sunak “inaction man” over his record in government.Speaking to Sky News on Sunday (17 September) Sir Keir said: “When a government has completely run out of energy and ideas… they go down this rabbit hole of ridiculous insults.”The comment was “water off a duck’s back,” he added. More

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    My economic plan would have saved £35bn in spending, says Liz Truss

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Liz Truss will claim that Rishi Sunak’s government has spent £35bn more than she would have as prime minister, in a speech on Monday. The short-lived PM will use a speech at the […] More

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    Liz Truss mini-Budget ‘left homeowners £300bn worse off’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain’s homeowners have taken a hit of more than £300bn in the year since Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-Budget, according to new analysis. This week marks the first anniversary of the calamitous spree of […] More

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    Tories and Labour neck and neck in battle for Nadine Dorries seat, poll shows

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour and the Conservatives are neck and neck in the byelection battle for Nadine Dorries’ old constituency of Mid Bedfordshire, new polling has revealed. The Survation survey offers evidence that a split in […] More

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    Rishi Sunak ‘pushing for HS2 to stop six miles north of Euston’

    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 said to be keen to axe part of the HS2 link running into central London so that it stops six miles north of Euston, it has been claimed. The Independent revealed […] More

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    Starmer to declare four major threats to western world as ‘axis of instability’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Sir Keir Starmer will declare people-smuggling, terrorism, climate change, and weakening democracy the four major threats to western countries as he embarks on the latest in a series of engagements on the global […] More