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 Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have struck a landmark deal to deter migrants from crossing the Channel in small boats.Continue Reading
Refugee campaigners attack new deal Campaigners for refugees warned the UK-France deal would drive migrants back into the hands of gangs. Asylum Matters executive director Louise Calvey said: “Another grubby trade in human lives will do nothing more than remove people from this country back into the hands of people-smugglers,Continue Reading
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 The defection of Sir Jake Berry, a former Tory chairman, to Reform was a genuine shock last night. As Kemi BadenochContinue Reading
Nigel Farage was drowned out by hecklers as he criticised Emmanuel Macron during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 9 July. As the Reform UK leader stood up, jeers rang out across the House of Commons. He went on to say that the reason the UK voted for Brexit was becauseContinue Reading
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 Nigel Farage has landed a major scalp as he seeks to revive the momentum in his flagging Reform UK party withContinue Reading
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 Sir Keir Starmer’s hopes to secure his much vaunted “one in, one out” migrant deal with France were hanging in theContinue Reading
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 Small boat migration is on track to reach its highest-ever levels this year, with numbers breaking records even before the summerContinue Reading
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 A deal with Google will see the tech giant provide free technology for UK government services from the NHS to localContinue Reading
Starmer and Macron discussing ‘tough new tactics to tackle illegal migration’, PM says The Independent’s political correspondent Millie Cooke reports: Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are “discussing tough new tactics to tackle illegal migration”, the prime minister has said, telling MPs at PMQs that his relationship with the FrenchContinue Reading
Pomp, pageantry and politesse greet Macron in display of British royals’ soft power The French Tricolor and Britain’s Union flag hang from the standards near Windsor Castle. The carriages are primed, the tiaras polished. French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, arrived in Britain on Tuesday at the startContinue Reading
