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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 Watch live as Rishi Sunak gives evidence at the Infected Blood Inquiry on Wednesday 26 July. Campaigners will call on the prime minister to pay full compensation to those infected and affected by […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Mobile phones should be kept out of the classroom and young people should be taught to “ration” their screen time at home, the schools minister has said. Nick Gibb said mobile phones can […] More
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 NatWest could have avoided a 3 per cent drop in its share and the loss of its CEO if Coutts boss Peter Flavel had […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Energy suppliers are “short-changing too many of their customers” regulators have warned as they announced planned new protections to help those struggling to pay their bills this winter. Ofgem wants better support for […] More
The government’s decision to put pressure onto demands for NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose to resign in the row over Nigel Farage’s Coutts account is “astonishing,” a Labour shadow minister said on Wednesday (26 July).Rishi Sunak told a press conference in Warwick: “It’s not right for anyone to be denied financial services because they’re exercising their lawful right to free speech.”Nick Thomas-Symonds told Sky News the matter was “for NatWest” and not politicians.“When it comes to dealing decisively with colleagues… the prime minister has invariably been slow to act but when it came to this situation… they moved straight in.” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Nigel Farage has called on the entire NatWest board to quit after chief executive Dame Alison Rose stepped down. The former UKIP leader said Dame Alison was “unfit” to stay in post after […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Jeremy Hunt’s expansion of state-funded childcare “will not work” unless more is done to address rising costs, stagnant funding and the recruitment crisis hitting the profession, MPs have warned. Parliament’s education committee has […] More
Nigel Farage lashed out at a BBC Radio 4 presenter Nick Robinson after a jibe about his failed attempts at becoming an MP.The former UKIP leader lost his temper after Mr Robinson raised the prospect of Mr Farage using the row over his closed bank account to launch a return to frontline politics.But he was cut off by Mr Farage, who said: “I am really not going to have this.“I am sick to death of your condescending tone.” More
