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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 used his first Conservative conference speech as party leader to set out his vision for the country – with HS2, smoking, vapes, A-levels and benefits all on the agenda. On Wednesday, […] More
Lee Anderson claimed that there is no poverty in Britain as he spoke at a fringe event at the Conservative party conference on Tuesday, 3 October.The deputy Tory party chairman, once nicknamed “30p Lee” for his comments on food banks, said he “doesn’t believe” in “poverty nonsense,” claiming that there was “real poverty” when he was growing up in the 1970s.Mr Anderson told the event, hosted by Conservative Home and UK In A Changing Europe, added that he believes the UK “is not an impoverished island.”According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 13.4 million people were living in poverty in 2020/21. More
Suella Braverman has reacted to a photo in which she was pictured standing on a guide dog’s tail at the Tory party conference.The Home Secretary issued an “apology to all dogs” after she took to the stage at a Blue Collar Conservatism reception on Tuesday (3 October).Ms Braverman was pictured with her foot on a guide dog’s tail.The dog, named Inca, was at the conference with Guide Dogs UK, who are campaigning for a ban on pavement parking.“I don’t think any dogs were harmed in the filming of my visit,” Ms Braverman said. 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 finally announced that HS2’s northern leg will be scrapped, weeks after The Independent first revealed he would axe the landmark high-speed rail project. The prime minister was met with howls […] 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 axed HS2 north of Birmingham today, claiming it would free up £36 billion to spend on other transport projects elsewhere. The prime minister listed a number of other schemes that would […] 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
Gillian Keegan was spotted tearing up during Rishi Sunak’s speech at Conservative Party conference on Wednesday 4 October.The education secretary became emotional as the prime minister discussed his backstory and recalled a sweet moment he shared with his grandfather when he first became an MP.Mr Sunak also confirmed that the northern leg of HS2 will be scrapped and discussed a number of other policies during his wide-ranging speech.He announced he was replacing A levels with an “Advanced British Standard” qualifications system, and will follow New Zealand in tabling plans to raise the smoking age each year in Britain. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Scientists advising the Government during the Covid pandemic have insisted they did not make policy, despite ministers at the time saying they were “following the science”. The UK Covid-19 Inquiry heard submissions from […] More
