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Rishi Sunak was accused of taking food from the mouths of poor children during Prime Minister’s Questions on 6 December.The Prime Minister was questioned by Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion over the Government’s decision to end the Household Support scheme in March 2024.“With the government’s cost of living crisis in full swing and energy prices about to increase again, how does the prime minister justify taking foods from the mouths of my poorest children?” questioned Ms Champion. More

Boris Johnson confessed his pandemic meetings were ‘too male-dominated’ while speaking at the Covid inquiry on Wednesday 6 December.The former prime minister admitted it as Hugo Keith grilled him about people refusing to work at No 10 due to toxic culture.“I think that the gender balance of my team should have been better,” Mr Johnson told the inquiry.“I think sometimes during the pandemic, too many meetings were too male-dominated if I’m absolutely honest with you,” he added. More

Watch as Boris Johnson’s grilling at the Covid inquiry is interrupted as the chairwoman has to kick four people out (6 December).The former prime minister began his opening apology when protesters started shouting, forcing Lady Hallet to ask for their removal.Cameras do not show the protesters, but the chairwoman repeatedly tells them to sit down before asking them to leave the room.Mr Johnson will be questioned about his leadership and decision-making in the pandemic over two days at Dorland House in London. More

James Cleverly has signed a new treaty with Rwanda in an attempt to overcome the legal block on the government’s policy of sending asylum seekers to the African country.The foreign secretary arrived in Kigali on Tuesday 5 December and told reporters that the deal “addressed” the issues raised by the Supreme Court last month.“Rwanda has now established a strong reputation for the humane and professional administration of refugees and migrants,” Mr Cleverly added.He has also insisted his new legally binding treaty with Rwanda addresses all of the reasons that caused the Supreme Court to deem the government’s flagship asylum policy unlawful. More

Home Secretary James Cleverly has signed a fresh treaty with Rwanda to help get Rishi Sunak’s thwarted asylum deal off the ground.He traveled to Kigali, Rwanda, to sign the agreement on Tuesday 5 December, in a bid to make the deal legally watertight after the Supreme Court ruled it unlawful in November.Domestic legislation is also planned so Parliament can state that Rwanda is a safe destination for asylum seekers arriving in Britain.Details on what the final treaty contains are unconfirmed. More

James Cleverly has arrived in Rwanda to sign a new treaty to help revive the Government’s stalled asylum deal.The foreign secretary travelled to Kigali as Rishi Sunak bids to make the plan to send migrants to the African nation legally watertight after the Supreme Court’s ruling against the policy.Domestic legislation, which will be rushed through parliament to assert Rwanda is a safe destination for asylum seekers who arrive in Britain, is also planned.Mr Cleverly will meet his counterpart, Vincent Biruta, to sign the treaty and discuss key next steps on the so-called migration and economic development partnership. More

James Cleverly has outlined a raft of new restrictions on legal migration which he said will slash the number of people arriving in Britain by 300,000 a year.The home secretary said a ban on overseas care workers bringing family dependants and a drastically hiked salary threshold for skilled workers to £38,700 will deliver the “biggest ever reduction”.“We will stop immigration undercutting the salary of British workers,” Mr Cleverly told the House of Commons on Monday 4 December.The strategy, which will also make it harder for Britons earning under the national average to bring over foreign spouses, comes after net migration levels soared to a record high. More

Sir Keir Starmer has defended his praise for Margaret Thatcher in a Daily Telegraph article over the weekend.Taking questions from reporters on Monday 4 December, the Labour leader said he was simply trying to distinguish between post-war prime ministers “who had a driving sense of purpose, ambition, a plan to deliver and those that drifted”.“It doesn’t mean I agree with what she did,” Sir Keir said of Thatcher.“But you don’t have to agree with someone to recognise they had a mission and a plan… I want a mission-driven Labour government.”Sir Keir added that the last 13 years of government has seen a “complete lack of leadership and a real drift”. More