Suella Braverman has provoked outrage over a U-turn on key pledges after the Windrush scandal and with her controversial plans to x-ray vulnerable child refugees. The home secretary is under fire for abandoning commitments the government made following the inquiry into the Windrush scandal – in the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the […]
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Caroline Lucas, the UK’s only Green party MP has accused Rishi Sunak’s government of committing “a climate crime against humanity” by approving a “toxic” new coal mine in Cumbria. A host of other critics have railed against the decision by Levelling-up secretary Michael Gove to approve the mine, calling it “shameful” and “a pathetic failure […]
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The government’s long awaited Energy Security Strategy for the UK has finally been published – and immediately condemned for ignoring energy efficiencies and offering no help to deal with rising prices now. Despite energy efficiencies – such as insulating homes – being hailed as “a silver bullet” for the UK’s energy conundrum, the government’s strategy […]
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Boris Johnson “has paved the way” for another major policy U-turn with speculation the recently announced fracking ban is to be reversed. The prime minister has suggested that sealing the UK’s two shale gas wells does not make sense in light of the energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Johnson’s spokesperson said today (March […]
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MPs have blamed Boris Johnson’s ‘political poison’ for the ugly scenes in Westminster on Monday (February 7) that saw Sir Keir Starmer bundled into the back of a police car to escape a mob of protestors. Tory MPs said their prime minister had endangered the leader of the opposition and called on Johnson to withdraw […]
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK economy is entering a “new age of optimism” as he delivered a budget that Labour said only benefitted “bankers on short haul flights sipping champagne”. Sunak said the government’s tax and spending plans – details below – are focused on the “post-Covid” era and will pave the way for […]
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The highly critical National Audit Office report into the government’s awarding of £18 billion in procurement deals has been overshadowed by infighting in the Labour party and the prime minister’s green plan for the UK. The parliamentary watchdog made a number of startling findings including a lack of transparency, failures to explain why certain suppliers […]
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Extinction Rebellion (XR) protestors have converged on Parliament Square to begin 10 days of disruption and civil disobedience as MPs returned to the Commons today. Police made at least 90 arrests as thousands of XR demonstrators marched through central London to Westminster to demand politicians back the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (CEE Bill). The […]
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The prime minister has been accused of “stoking fear and division” ahead of a weekend of anti-racist demonstrations and far-right counter-protests across a country still reeling from last weekend’s iconoclastic events in Bristol. That Boris Johnson’s highly contentious tweets – in which he called it “absurd” and “shameful” that the national monument to Winston Churchill […]
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