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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 Jeremy Hunt hit back at criticism from Rachel Reeves over his past support for HS2 being built in full. The chancellor said in 2020 that going ahead with the high speed rail line […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Voters are going to the polls in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The seat was vacated after former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier was ousted in a recall petition. Ms Ferrier was kicked […] More
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 appeared to shift closer to the right wing of his party with an attack on “virtue signalling”. In a speech that largely avoided “culture war” subjects, the Prime Minister used […] More
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 announced his plan to scrap A-levels and replace it with a new qualification called the Advanced British Standard (ABS) aimed at creating the “best education system in the western world”. […] More
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 reported to police in Scotland over comments made about former first minister Nicola Sturgeon in his Tory conference speech. Mr Sunak sought to make fun of the former SNP […] More
Penny Mordaunt said ‘stand up and fight’ 12 times in a bizarre speech at the Conservative Party Conference.On 4 October, Rishi Sunak closed the annual gathering of Tory politicians held this year in Manchester, but not before the Leader of the House of Commons delivered a rallying speech which appeared to give nod to ex-prime minister of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher.Addressing the conference, she said, “stand up and fight for the freedoms we have won against socialism, whether it is made of velvet or iron.”She walked off to rapturous applause, but left many rather puzzled. More
Rishi Sunak confirms HS2’s Manchester leg will be scrapped More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak came under fire within hours of delivering his first Conservative Party conference speech as two former Tory prime ministers took aim at his flagship plans. In a wide-ranging address, the PM […] More
