Kemi Badenoch has been forced to stress that she does believe in maternity pay after she sparked fury by saying it was “excessive”. The Tory leadership contender on Sunday said the government was doing “too much” on statutory maternity pay, before quickly backtracking on the remarks. Describing statutory maternity payContinue Reading
James Cleverly is the preferred candidate to win the Tory leadership race amongst the British public, a new poll has shown – but a majority of respondents said they don’t know who they would support. Asked which candidate would make the best prime minister, new polling by Techne put theContinue Reading
Immigrants who see Israel as enemy ‘not welcome’ in UK says Kemi Badenoch Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email MP Rosie Duffield has launched a scathing attackContinue Reading
Keir Starmer refuses to apologise to pensioners over winter fuel payment cuts Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email Kemi Badenoch has warned that Tory members will beContinue Reading
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time on Sunday, tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe. Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led theContinue Reading
Former prime minister Boris Johnson has said he believes the Covid pandemic was caused by a leak from a laboratory in China, and did not originate in unsanitary conditions in a Wuhan market. He joins Donald Trump in dismissing evidence suggesting that the virus was transmitted “zoonotically” from infected animals. The US formerContinue Reading
Rosie Duffield has quit as a Labour MP, attacking Sir Keir Starmer’s “cruel and unnecessary policies” and the freebie row engulfing the party. The Canterbury MP and long time critic of Sir Keir will sit as an independent after resigning the Labour whip “with immediate effect”. In a damning resignationContinue Reading
Donors and businesses are turning their backs on the Tories for Labour and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK as the party enters its conference with question marks over its finances. Insiders have told The Independent that a number of red flags have been raised in preparation for the first annual conferenceContinue Reading
Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to be investigated over gifts and freebies after it emerged he received a further £16,000 of clothing donations from Labour peer Waheed Alli last October. The SNP has written to the House of Commons standards commissioner demanding a probe of the gifts, which includeContinue Reading
Keir Starmer refuses to apologise to pensioners over winter fuel payment cuts Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email Boris Johnson has claimed he considered launching an “aquaticContinue Reading
