T he Crown Prince of Kuwait had his visit to Number 10 partially disrupted by opponents of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez), who staged a protest against the scheme outside Downing Street. The meeting between Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Saba and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak coincided with a loud demonstrationContinue Reading
N otting Hill Carnival should be moved and potentially held in a park, the Conservative Party’s London mayoral candidate has said, following a spate of stabbing incidents. Two men are in hospital, one in a critical condition, after attacks at the festival held in the streets of west London onContinue Reading
L abour peer Lord Alan Haworth has died aged 75, the party has confirmed. He was a secretary of the parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 2004, then became a member of the House of Lords. The party said he died on Monday morning on holiday in Iceland with wifeContinue Reading
T housands of patients across England have been injured by faulty medical equipment in A&E departments in the past five years, Labour has said. The party has promised to help tackle the problem by allowing the NHS to bulk buy the latest technology and cutting “unnecessary” red tape. It comesContinue Reading
T he chair of Scotland’s Covid-19 inquiry has promised a “robust investigation” into how Scottish ministers responded to the pandemic. During a preliminary hearing of the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry, Lord Brailsford paid tribute to those who had lost loved ones or had been severely impacted by the events between JanuaryContinue Reading
A Labour government would “give patients back control over their own healthcare” and reverse the “managed decline” of the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Wes Streeting said the Government under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Steve Barclay is in “too weakContinue Reading
T he Home Office is considering fitting asylum seekers arriving in the UK via unauthorised means with electronic tags, it has been reported. The Times said officials are mulling it as a way to prevent migrants who cannot be housed in limited detention sites from absconding. The Illegal Migration ActContinue Reading
T he Government’s plan to accommodate asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge could face a legal challenge as firefighters accused ministers of a “callous disregard” for the safety of those onboard. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has sent a “pre-action protocol letter” to Home Secretary Suella Braverman outlining itsContinue Reading
R ishi Sunak faces another potentially damaging by-election after Nadine Dorries finally handed in her resignation 11 weeks after vowing to go. The Tory former culture secretary is expected to leave her parliamentary seat on Tuesday after notifying the Chancellor of her intention to do so on Saturday. She hadContinue Reading
D angerous offenders who commit the most heinous murders will face life behind bars with no chance of being released under new plans announced by Rishi Sunak. The Government aims to change the law so that judges are required to impose whole-life orders on the most depraved killers, except inContinue Reading
