A year of Tory turmoil, chaos and scandal turned Britain into an international laughing stock, Sir Lindsay Hoyle has opined. Speaker of the House of Commons Hoyle said the country is still “struggling to recover” from the tumultuous year that saw scandal and ineptitude bring down two governments. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s PM programme, […]
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Prime minister Rishi Sunak has put the UK government on a collision course with Scotland’s parliament by threatening to block the gender recognition bill passed by Holyrood from becoming law. Sunak said it is “completely reasonable” for the UK government to block the new legislation allowing Scots aged 16-and-over to self-declare and change their legal […]
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Home Office regulations affecting millions of EU citizens living in the UK under the settlement scheme are unlawful, a high court judge has ruled. A watchdog guarding EU citizens’ rights in the UK has warned the current scheme could create hundreds-of-thousands of illegal immigrants overnight. The measures are part of the post-Brexit EU settlement scheme […]
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Deputy prime minister Dominic Raab is now being investigated over eight bullying claims after five new formal complaints were made to Downing Street. All of the five new claims relate to Raab’s tenure as justice secretary and deputy prime minister under the disgraced former PM Boris Johnson. Rishi Sunak reappointed Raab to both those positions […]
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The government is holding a Cobra emergency meeting to deal with the wave of strikes hitting Britain across multiple sectors. Ministers will discuss deploying the military to drive ambulances and civil servants to cover Border Force staff as strikes escalate. Nurses, rail and postal staff are also among workers taking industrial action this month in […]
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A bill giving King Charles the power to personally strip titles from anyone, without parliamentary interference gets its second reading in the Commons on Friday (Dec 9). Should the bill progress all the way to royal assent, where the King gets to sign it with one of his “bloody pens”, he may well have the […]
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Ian Blackford has announced he will step down as leader of the Scottish National party at Westminster and will be replaced at next week’s parliamentary party AGM. Blackford’s surprising statement comes just a week after he told the Scotsman newspaper he had no intention of quitting and that he looked “forward to being the MP […]
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Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure with growing numbers of disgruntled Conservative MPs rebelling over onshore wind farms, planning reforms and a proposed crackdown on overseas students. Former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss signed a rebel amendment last week against Sunak’s de-facto ban on onshore wind farms. Cop26 president Alok Sharma also signed […]
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Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to make the next election a referendum on Scottish independence after the UK’s Supreme Court ruled against the SNP’s bid for a ballot in 2023. Scotland’s first minister Sturgeon said she respected the unanimous judgment but called it a “tough pill to swallow”. The Supreme Court ruled Sturgeon does not have […]
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London has lost its crown as the home of Europe’s largest stock market to Paris for the first time since records began in 2003. Stock values in Paris have wiped out a $1.4 trillion gap to London share values in the six years since the Brexit vote, according to Bloomberg. Shares traded in the French […]
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