Sunak visits Belfast as power-sharing at Stormont is restored | Keegan admits free childcare not guaranteed for parents, despite the Prime Minister’s claims | The Education Secretary is ‘under fire’ after suggesting Clapham attack case ‘not really about asylum’ | Brexit drove me to vote SNP, admits former Labour leader Dugdale
Sunak unveils plan to boost NHS workforce | Barclay: NHS faces a healthy future under radical £2.4bn rejuvenation | Tory MPs want a plan B on small boats after Rwanda defeat | MPs summon Thames Water chiefs to explain company’s £14bn debt
President arrives in Northern Ireland pledging to ‘keep the peace’ | Biden’s Irishness overshadows visit for Good Friday Agreement anniversary | Hospitals may have to close A&E departments | ‘Militant’ BMA union chief goes on holiday as junior doctors strike
Inflation ‘soars’ to 10.1 per cent amid rising food costs | The Prime Minister is to face the Commons at PMQs in ‘renewed leadership test’ | Hunt ‘set to postpone’ the cap on social care costs | Fears arise that Putin is ‘on the brink of detonating a nuclear weapon over the Black Sea’ as Wallace ‘scrambles’ to Washington
Johnson tells Zelensky the UK will ‘never recognise’ Russia’s seizure of Crimea | The Foreign Secretary tells the latest hustings that social care should get more of ‘NHS billions’ | She is attacked by Sunak over her plans to curb the Bank of England’s independence
The Prime Minister commits to boosting UK defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030, and will push NATO allies to match | Number 10 ‘plans VAT cut to ease pain of rising prices’ | Johnson refuses three times to rule out an early election | Pincher resigns as deputy Chief Whip after ‘groping two men’ and ‘drinking too much’ at Carlton Club event
The Prime Minister calls on NATO to increase defence budgets to fight Putin | Wallace urges boost to military spending | Truss says Britain should send weapons to Taiwan
Queen’s Speech “will include new laws to counter hostile states”… “Foreign spies operating in Britain face being prosecuted and deported under new laws to protect the nation from hostile states such as China and Russia. Boris Johnson will use the Queen’s Speech on May 11 to announce a bill to counter hostile states, including a […]
And in a sign of the tensions between Ministers and the media, it’s announced that members of the public will pose questions during these sessions.
Johnson kicks off new ministry with dramatic Cabinet cull… “Boris Johnson carried out the biggest Cabinet cull in almost 60 years on Wednesday as he promoted Brexit loyalists to help him get Britain out of the EU on October 31, “no ifs or buts”. The new Prime Minister, who had recently said his favourite film moment […]
Washington 1) After their first meeting May says Trump is “100 per cent behind NATO” “US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May have reaffirmed their commitment to the Nato alliance after White House talks. Mrs May confirmed Mr Trump was “100% behind Nato” despite the president’s recent comments calling the transatlantic alliance […]
A CSJ report makes 40 practical recommendations to help tackle this scourge in every country in Europe.
The BMA unwisely challenged Ministers to choose between keeping doctors happy or acting to improve patient safety.
Obama’s Brexit warning starts to unravel “Barack Obama’s dire warnings about Brexit were unravelling last night as he admitted the US would do a trade deal with the UK – and our defence and intelligence special relationship would be unchanged… the Out campaign yesterday seized on an apparent clarification from Mr Obama, who said that he […]
The final part of our mini-series with Policy Exchange on rebalancing the Union in the wake of Boris Johnson’s deal.