UK Politics

James Cleverly said he “doesn’t recognise” a claim he called the Rwanda deportation scheme “batshit.”Yvette Cooper suggested the new home secretary never personally believed in the plan as she questioned him in the Commons about what ministers will do now the Supreme Court has ruled it unlawful.“He distanced himself from it and his predecessor’s language on it. He may even on occasion have privately called it ‘batshit’,” Ms Cooper added.Mr Cleverly told Sky News: “I don’t recognise that phrase… the Rwanda scheme is an important part, but only a part, of the range of responses we have to illegal migration.” More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is expected to be chosen by a majority of legislators to form a new government in a parliamentary vote Thursday. The vote comes at the end of […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email James Cleverly has promised a treaty with Rwanda to save the government’s failed asylum plan will be published “within days, not weeks” – but he refused to say when the first migrants would […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email David Cameron has visited Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine in his first overseas trip as foreign secretary. The former prime minister joked about his “disagreements” with Boris Johnson, but said support for the Ukrainian […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The House of Commons is voting on the King’s Speech on Wednesday, which was delivered by His Majesty King Charles III last week and laid out the legislative agenda the Conservative government plans […] More

Protesters disrupted Yvette Cooper’s speech in the House of Commons as she spoke about the Israel-Hamas conflict on Wednesday, 15 November.A group of around five or six people were removed from the public gallery after holding up “Ceasefire now” signs during the King’s Speech debate.Doorkeepers approached the group and removed them from the public gallery.Extinction Rebellion (XR) claimed responsibility for the protest.It comes as Labour MPs were due to be subject to a three-line whip to abstain on the SNP’s amendment to the King’s Speech calling for a ceasefire. More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Bangladesh’s expected parliamentary elections will be held on Jan. 7, electoral authorities announced Wednesday, but the opposition reiterated its vow to boycott the polls unless the government hands power to a caretaker administration. […] More

With Suella Braverman’s remarks about protests taking place on Remembrance Day and her widely condemned comments on homelessness in the UK, prime minister Rishi Sunak sacked his home secretary in a reshuffle to save the presumed fate of his government.The prime minister surprised all by bringing back former prime minister David Cameron as his new foreign secretary, following James Cleverly’s move to the Home Office. But do the changes show just how bare the Conversative party’s options are with ministerial talent?John Rentoul answers your questions about the past week in Westminster. More