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 distressed Rachel Reeves shed tears in the House of Commons on Wednesday as Sir Keir Starmer dodged a question overContinue Reading
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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 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said Wednesday that Treasury chief Rachel Reeves is secure in her job after a seriesContinue Reading
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Critics of the Chancellor have been highlighting a Tweet she made in 2012 when she was a newish MP to juxtapose with her tears in PMQs after the government’s humiliation over welfare Reform. Back then she posted: “Don’t think I’ve ever been so close to tears as I was atContinue Reading
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Minister warns welfare U-turn will have ‘financial consequences’ The Independent’s political correspondent Archie Mitchell reports: One of the biggest problems for Labour after Sir Keir Starmer’s U-turn on welfare is the £5bn hole left in the government’s spending plans by the change. And chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster PatContinue 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 welfare bill has managed to scrape past its second reading as he fended off what is believed toContinue 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 has suffered the biggest blow to his leadership since coming into power a year ago after he wasContinue 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 Ahead of the welfare reform bill vote, a frustrated minister privately questioned the whole approach to the painful debate. “We areContinue Reading
