Suella Braverman is said to be in “listening mode” on a series of amendments to the government’s flagship illegal migration bill which is due for committee stage in the commons later today. The right of the Conservative party, led by Danny Kruger and Jonathan Gullis, has claimed it has as many as 60 MPs ready to
The shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said he does not support the strike action scheduled to be taken by junior doctors in England next month. The British Medical Association has announced a 96-hour walkout between April 11-15 in their fight to get a 35% pay rise in England. » Read More
Transport secretary Mark Harper has backed the Met Commissioner after a damning 363-page report into the police force found it is institutionally racist, sexist, and homophobic. A review by Baroness Louise Casey, who spent a year investigating the Met Police in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard by Couzens, » Read More
DUP MPs will vote against the “Stormont brake”, a key part of the prime minister’s solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol impasse, when it is put before the House of Commons on Wednesday. In a statement, party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said: “Our party officers, the only decision-making mechanism in our party on these matters
Jeremy Hunt has rejected the “bizarre” suggestion that his budget is aimed at helping the wealthiest one per cent in society following his decision to get rid of the lifetime pension allowance. The lifetime allowance — the total amount workers can accumulate in their pension savings before paying extra tax — was abolished yesterday. » Read
Downing Street is preparing for a fresh Brexit showdown with Conservative MPs with the first commons vote on the prime minister’s Northern Ireland Protocol solution to be held on Wednesday. The European Research Group of eurosceptic Conservative MPs is yet to deliver its final verdict on the so-called Windsor framework, » Read More
Jeremy Hunt has said the UK will avoid recession this year in his Spring Budget announcement, as he announced a series of new fiscal measures. He said: “Today the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that because of changing international factors and the measures I take, the UK will not now enter a technical recession this
A shadow cabinet minister has suggested that the Conservative Party and Jeremy Hunt as chancellor are following Labour’s lead on a number of key budget announcements expected later today. Reports first seen in The Guardian suggest the chancellor will promise to provide 30 hours of childcare a week to working parents of one and two-year-olds
A cabinet minister has refused to rule out a ban on TikTok on government devices amid concerns about users’ data privacy. The social media app is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. Critics of China argue that the national government could demand tech firms such as TikTok, whose parent company is headquartered in Beijing, » Read
The government has been criticised in the commons for the way in which the HS2 delay was announced. The high-speed railway was initially set to link London and the West Midlands with a further phase extending to cities in the North. However, in a written statement, » Read More
