UK Politics

The government is committed to the triple lock on pensions, Rishi Sunak insisted at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 13 September.The triple lock guarantees an increase in line with average earnings, inflation or 2.5 per cent, whichever is highest – meaning that pensioners would have been in line for a rise linked to wages from April.However, pensioners may not get an 8.5 per cent increase in the state pension next year as ministers try to limit the cost to the taxpayer. More

Sir Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of “presiding over mayhem” after Daniel Abed Khalife allegedly escaped from HMP Wandsworth last week.At Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 13 September, the Labour leader cited comments from the prisons watchdog, who said Wandsworth “really needs closing.”The suspected terrorist, 21, allegedly fled in a chef’s outfit by using straps to cling onto a food delivery van.Khalife appeared before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday after being captured and charged with escaping from prison. He was remanded in custody. 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 Rishi Sunak faces Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) on Wednesday, 13 September. Wednesday’s questions came as data showed that the UK economy shrank surprisingly sharply in July. Analysts […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A peer appointed by Boris Johnson in his controversial resignation honours list has snubbed the Tory party by sitting as an independent in the House of Lords. Dan Rosenfield, Mr Johnson’s former chief […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Not a lot unites Northern Ireland’s fractious political and religious groups. The British government has managed it with a law that sets out to lay the ghosts of decades of violence to rest. […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email There will be “serious disruption” to the next general election as voter identification is introduced nationally, overstretched election staff have warned. Electoral administrators surveyed for a report by the Local Government Information Unit […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A union chief has launched a stinging attack on Keir Starmer, likening the Labour leader to “a car salesman who just sells soap”. Mark Serwotka, the head of the union representing civil servants, […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The Conservative party risks losing up to 35 seats in the next general election if voters turn to tactical voting in a bit to remove from power, new figures reveal. The Electoral Calculus […] More