The first Black woman to lead a major U.K. political party, Kemi Badenoch is an upbeat and outspoken libertarian who thinks the British state is broken — and that she’s the one to fix it with smaller government and radical new ideas. The new leader of Britain’s right-of-center Conservative PartyContinue Reading
Moment Kemi Badenoch is announced as new Tory leader to replace Rishi Sunak Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Newly elected Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has admitted the Tories “let standards slip” but vowedContinue Reading
Rachel Reeves is facing a growing backlash over her national insurance hike as GPs, care homes and hospices have called for an exemption from the charge. The chancellor is piling pressure on GPs and the care sector with her increase in the employer rate of national insurance – at aContinue Reading
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is weighing up whether to charge MP Mike Amesbury after CCTV footage emerged which appears to show him punching a man. The MP for Runcorn and Helsby was suspended from the Labour Party on Monday evening after a clip was published by MailOnline in which he is apparently seen hittingContinue Reading
Environment secretary Steve Reed has hit back following a storm of criticism over the government’s plans to extend inheritance tax to family farms, claiming the “vast majority of farmers will not be affected at all”. He blamed “misleading headlines” for the backlash to the tax, saying “only the richest estates”Continue Reading
Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico reacted angrily on Friday after the U.K. ambassador to Bratislava criticized his interview with Russia’s Rossiya 1 state-owned television, saying, “Slovakia is not Britain’s colony.” “I don’t know what gives you a right to interfere in my media activities,” Fico said in a videoContinue Reading
Labour’s first Budget does not bear any similarity to that of Liz Truss, a minister has said adding that the country has “got PTSD” from the former PM’s catastrophic mini-Budget as the government seeks to downplay speculation about market turmoil. Asked about market jitters following the Budget, Treasury minister DarrenContinue Reading
An angry Question Time audience member delivered a powerful speech hitting out at “economically illiterate” MPs. The man addressed the panel on Thursday’s show (31 October) – the day after Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget, announcing a £40bn tax hike. He said: “Whenever there is a change fromContinue Reading
The government’s new value for money tsar will be paid a day rate of £950, the equivalent of a £247,000 annual salary. David Goldstone, who will take up the position of chairman of the new Office for Value for Money, will effectively be on a higher pro-rata salary than theContinue Reading
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of lying to farmers about wanting “a new relationship” with them after the Budget extended inheritance tax to family farms for the first time in history. The move means farms worth more than £1m are now subject to 20 per cent inheritance tax. AlreadyContinue Reading
