T ributes will be paid to the late SNP politician Winnie Ewing, the party’s first female parliamentarian, at a memorial service on Saturday. The 93-year-old former MP, MEP, and MSP, affectionately known as Madame Ecosse, died last month, surrounded by her family. Former first minister Alex Salmond and former ScottishContinue Reading
R ishi Sunak is reportedly set to announce plans to cap the number of students who can take “low-value” university degrees. Limits would be imposed on courses that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, pursuing further studies or starting a business, the Guardian reported.Continue Reading
S uella Braverman’s immigration plans are facing another legal battle after councils and campaigners were given the green light to bring a High Court challenge against housing migrants on disused airfields. The ruling comes just two days after the Home Secretary’s department moved asylum seekers on to Wethersfield Airfield forContinue Reading
A breakthrough may have been made in the bid to unlock Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone after an ally suggested the Government had recovered a past PIN code. The deadline for handing over messages from the former prime minister’s previous device to the UK Covid-19 inquiry was missed this weekContinue Reading
A breakthrough may have been made in the bid to unlock Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone after an ally suggested the Government had recovered a past code. The deadline for handing over messages from the former prime minister’s previous device to the UK Covid-19 inquiry was missed this week dueContinue Reading
A trade union umbrella body has warned of a “carnival of industrial unrest” in Northern Ireland this autumn if the pay of public sector workers in the region falls behind the rest of the UK. The NIC/Ictu was responding after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak offered public sector workers in EnglandContinue Reading
W hatsApp messages on Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone have still not been handed over to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. Downing Street on Monday said “all requisite material” had been given to the inquiry after the Government lost its bid to prevent their release. The Cabinet Office had until 4pmContinue Reading
L abour will pledge to “turn the page on Tory sleaze” if it wins the next election, as it fleshes out its plans for an independent ethics watchdog for ministerial standards. Deputy leader Angela Rayner is expected to renew a commitment to “stop the rot” by creating a new bodyContinue Reading
U kraine could display more “gratitude” to countries supplying large amounts of weaponry to help its fight against Russia, the Defence Secretary has suggested. On the final day of the Nato summit in Lithuania, Ben Wallace urged Volodymyr Zelensky to show more appreciation for military aid. He said that lastContinue Reading
E nvironmental regulators will be able to charge polluters unlimited penalties for causing damage, the Government has confirmed. The current limit of £250,000 is to be scrapped following a consultation with “widespread public support”, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said. It means the Environment Agency (EA)Continue Reading
