Claudia Savage
Politics
Healey pledges to ‘stop the rot’ in military housing with new consumer charter
A defence housing strategy, to be published later this year, will set out further plans aimed at improving the standard of service family housing.
18 Apr 2025
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Energy bill support will be ‘eaten up’ by price cap increase, Tories claim
Shadow energy minister Andrew Bowie said the Government’s response to Ofgem’s rise in the energy cap is ‘a sticking plaster approach’.
25 Feb 2025
Politics25 Feb 2025
Starmer vows to investigate defence statement leak as Hoyle calls out redaction
Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle asked the Prime Minister if he had provided redacted parts of his statement to the media or if it had been leaked.
Politics
Jeremy Hunt says welfare cuts would let Starmer commit to 3% defence spend now
Mr Hunt said the UK raising defence spending to match the US relative to GDP would secure the future of Ukraine and of Nato.
24 Feb 2025
Politics
Home Secretary rules out EU youth mobility scheme
Yvette Cooper was questioned on the scheme in the Commons.
24 Feb 2025
Politics18 Feb 2025
Healey: Decisions made in weeks ahead will define world security for generation
The Defence Secretary said details of a US security guarantee for Ukraine are ‘being developed’ as US and Russian officials meet in Saudi Arabia.
Politics
Prime Minister to meet Donald Trump in Washington next week
A No 10 spokesman said Sir Keir Starmer will seek to ‘deepen the special relationship’ with the new US president.
17 Feb 2025
Politics
Tories call for ‘lifetime ban’ on Islamist ‘hate-preacher’ entering UK
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said: ‘People expressing these vile views should not be allowed into the UK.’
13 Feb 2025
Politics
MP says LGBT friends fought ‘five blokes’ to protect her from assault
Labour MP for Luton North, Sarah Owen, criticised those who use terms like ‘woke’ or ‘snowflake’ to portray gay and trans people as weak.
13 Feb 2025
Politics
Now is right time to knight rugby league star Kevin Sinfield – Commons Speaker
Sir Lindsay Hoyle said it is a ‘major injustice’ that no player from the sport has ever been knighted.
13 Feb 2025
Politics
Transport Secretary urged to name train after Margaret Thatcher
Tory MP Sir Edward Leigh made the demand during Transport Questions in the Commons on Thursday.
13 Feb 2025
Politics
Government in denial about what constitutes genocide, says Labour MP
Brian Leishman also described as appalling a statement from Foreign Secretary David Lammy where he ruled out ‘any discussion of sanctions’.
12 Feb 2025
Politics
Starmer insists farming is ‘top of the agenda’ for the Government
It was reported last week that Defra minister Daniel Zeichner told a rural conference that farmers are ‘not high on the pecking order’.
12 Feb 2025
Politics
MPs approve paid neonatal leave to provide ‘support and reassurance’ for parents
The statutory instrument will provide parents a day-one right to up to 12 weeks of neonatal leave and pay.
11 Feb 2025
Politics
MPs call for changes to coroners’ rules in response to Clonoe inquest
DUP leader Gavin Robinson said the coroner had to answer ‘where, when, who and how. He had no role in trying to answer the question as to why’.
11 Feb 2025
Politics
Clonoe ambush ruling feeds ‘IRA attempt to rewrite history’, says ex-minister
Sir David Davis said last week’s coroner’s report into the Coalisland shootings was ’51 pages of fact and eight pages of naive speculation’.
10 Feb 2025
Politics
Delays to local elections not a ‘stitch-up’ – Angela Rayner
The Deputy Prime Minister was asked about the perception Labour could be delaying elections due to a fear of Reform UK making gains.
9 Feb 2025
Politics
Angela Rayner denies being ‘aggressive’ in meeting with Grenfell survivors
The Government has officially announced the west London block’s future.
9 Feb 2025
Politics
Work and Pensions Secretary says some people on benefits ‘taking the mickey’
A report from the DWP found 49% of health and disability benefit recipients reported they felt they would never be able to work or work again.
6 Feb 2025
Politics6 Feb 2025
Starmer and Dutch PM agree ‘further co-operation’ on illegal migration
Sir Keir Starmer met Dick Schoof in Downing Street on Thursday evening.
Politics
MPs urged to make vandalising water safety equipment a specific offence
Lee Pitcher MP presented Sam’s Law to the Commons, named after Sam Haycock who died aged 16 after getting into difficulty in a reservoir in 2021.
5 Feb 2025