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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 The Prime Minister is set to axe plans for the HS2 high-speed rail link to run from Birmingham to Manchester amid soaring costs. Critics of such a move include former prime ministers Boris […] More
Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray was ejected from a Conservative Party Conference event on Monday 2 October, footage shows.Mr Bray – known for his daily protests outside Westminster – was removed from a meeting hosted by the Bruges Group think tank on the fringe of the event in Manchester.“Where’s your Brexit benefits?” he was heard asking as other members of the audience manhandled him.“What a load of bulls***, I’ve never heard so much crap in my life. Brexit is a disaster,” Mr Bray added, as he was being removed from the room. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Putting off decarbonisation policies will result in a hotter atmosphere come mid-century, making the net-zero goal harder to achieve, the new chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said. Many […] More
Liz Truss bizarrely claimed that “we need more GB News” as she opened her speech at Tory conference.The former prime minister addressed Conservative Party members in Manchester on Monday 2 October, backing the news channel less than a week after Laurence Fox and presenter Dan Wootton were suspended after Fox made a series of remarks about political correspondent Ava Evans.“In my view, we need more economic journalism, and we need more GB News,” Ms Truss said.“Challenging the orthodoxy, broadcasting common sense and transforming our media landscape. So long may it continue.” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has given the clearest signal yet that he is ready to axe HS2’s northern leg as he attacked some of the high-speed rail project’s “totally unacceptable” costs. The chancellor is […] 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 has distanced himself from Suella Braverman’s hardline stance on immigration after backlash to her speech claiming that multiculturalism has failed. The chancellor, who is married to a Chinese immigrant, said he […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain’s Treasury chief is to announce a hike in the national minimum wage on Monday, as the governing Conservative Party tries to persuade voters it is on the side of those who are […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Early voting began on Monday in New Zealand for the nation’s Oct. 14 general election, with conservative contender Christopher Luxon casting his ballot. Early voting also began in some parts of Australia in […] More
