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Politics

Angela Rayner and Oliver Dowden clash over Conservatives’ economic record

Rising bills, soaring mortgages and plummeting real wages are ‘pushing more families to the brink’, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner warned.
12 Jul 2023
UK

Keir Starmer’s contract with the British people speech: Five key things

What are the main themes outlined in the Labour leader’s speech made in Birmingham?
4 Jan 2022
UK

SNP presses PM over ‘new money to support businesses’ amid Omicron surge

SNP MP Ian Blackford said ‘a prime minister who can’t do what is needed to protect the public is no prime minister at all.’
15 Dec 2021
UK

Minister hails ‘huge opportunities’ to deepen US trade links on first visit

Anne-Marie Trevelyan will use her first official stateside trip this week to bolster transatlantic trade and investment, the DIT said.
5 Dec 2021
UK

Blair presses for ‘global genomic sequencing’ to act faster on new variants

The former prime minister also called for a globally agreed ‘set of travel standards and restrictions around travel’.
5 Dec 2021
UK

Make climate education mandatory in schools, Labour MP says

Nadia Whittome told MPs her bill to integrate climate change and sustainability into the curriculum would ‘prepare young people for the future’.
23 Nov 2021
UK

Rayner: PM ‘does not play by the rules’, sleaze ‘has undermined our democracy’

Angela Rayner, who previously apologised for branding senior Tories ‘scum’, called for a meeting with the Prime Minister over use of language.
14 Nov 2021
UK

PM’s ‘do as I say, not as I do’ approach to Cop26 sent wrong message – Labour

Angela Rayner also said Alok Sharma’s efforts at the talks had been ‘undermined’ by the UK Government’s cut to overseas aid.
14 Nov 2021
UK

WHO Covid special envoy calls out PM on mask-wearing

Dr David Nabarro said ‘we all need to be able to do what we’ve got to do, regardless of what politics we adopt’.
10 Nov 2021
UK

DUP MP accuses the Government of ‘climate hysteria’

Sammy Wilson warned those people in low-paid and medium-paid jobs ‘are going to face a rather bleak period in the near future’.
27 Oct 2021
UK

Domestic APD cut a disgrace amid climate challenge, warns Blackford

The SNP’s Westminster leader also said the Budget ‘brazenly cuts taxes for the banks whilst at the same time cuts Universal Credit for the poor’.
27 Oct 2021
UK

MPs adopt mixed stance on wearing face masks in packed Commons for Budget

Conservative former prime minister Theresa May wore a face covering as did Health Secretary Sajid Javid.
27 Oct 2021
UK

Gove compares 2016 leadership bid sabotage to an ‘unexploded bomb going off’

Mr Gove’s decision to run in effect forced Boris Johnson to pull out of the contest.
25 Oct 2021
UK

Number of Afghan refugees in hotels shows scale of rehousing task, says minister

The UK evacuated more than 15,000 people from August 13.
25 Oct 2021
UK

Rachel Reeves: Sunak’s help for families is just poor imitation of Sure Start

The shadow chancellor said ripping up Labour’s flagship programme was ‘an act of criminality’.
24 Oct 2021
UK

James Brokenshire: Ministers pay their respects at funeral

The service took place around St John the Evangelist Church in Bexley

21 Oct 2021
UK

David Lammy accuses Johnson Government of ‘taking justice for granted’

The shadow justice secretary said Boris Johnson was ‘levelling the country down’.
28 Sept 2021
UK

UK kickstarts talks to join trans-Pacific trade bloc CPTPP

International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan described the talks as a ‘big milestone on our path to joining CPTPP’.
28 Sept 2021
UK

Compensation arrangement for investors in failed firm clears Commons

Pensions minister Guy Opperman said that the individual circumstances surrounding LC&F were ‘completely unique’.
22 Sept 2021
UK

UK must break down ‘digital barriers’ new International Trade Secretary says

Anne-Marie Trevelyan will address industry leaders on Monday at the start of London Tech Week.
20 Sept 2021
UK

Sadiq Khan urges ‘calm debate’ as MP avoids Labour conference due to threats

Reports claim Rosie Duffield will miss the event in Brighton due to threats from transgender activists.
19 Sept 2021