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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 A senior SNP MP has been cleared of bullying the former Tory minister Nadine Dorries after a six-month investigation by the parliamentary authorities. John Nicolson is understood to have been investigated over a […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Dominic Raab has said he believes “heart and soul” that he is not a bully but defended his “forthright” approach to his work. The deputy prime minister is under investigation over eight formal […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as Jeremy Hunt speaks to parliament’s Treasury committee about the Budget he announced on 15 March. The chancellor laid out a range of policies in his announcement, including plans to boost pensions, […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as Humza Yousaf is sworn in as Scotland’s first minister on Wednesday 29 March. The ceremony at the Court of Session in Edinburgh saw the 37-year-old make his statutory declarations, after which […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Dominic Raab is expanding a long-promised victims’ law to give himself controversial powers to veto the release of some prisoners and change the make-up of parole panels. The Victims and Prisoners Bill, which […] More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The government spent £3.5bn of aid money on supporting refugees and asylum seekers already in the UK last year – one third of Britain’s entire annual budget – while allowing hotel costs to […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Tents would be “perfectly acceptable” to house migrants while they wait to be removed from the UK, according to a Conservative former minister. Jonathan Gullis tabled an amendment to the Illegal Migration Bill […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Richard Sharp’s appointment as BBC chair “shouldn’t stand”, the corporation’s former general director John Birt has said. The BBC grandee attacked the process that saw the Tory donor given the top job without […] More
