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It's Whitsun recess this week, so parliament is not sitting and things are generally pretty quiet. The big Westminster story continues to be the lumbering saga of the Covid inquiry's attempt to pin down Boris Johnson, specifically over…
Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP Neil Coyle has had the Labour whip returned after being suspended from the parliamentary party. Coyle had the Labour whip suspended, as well as his membership administratively suspended, in February last year…
The headline event of this week's Prime Minister's Questions was the ejection of Tory MP Paul Bristow by the Speaker for heckling Keir Starmer. PMQs watchers will have been noting Lindsay Hoyle's increasingly crabby demeanour when dealing…
The political quote of the year for me thus far has been Humza Yousaf's succinct assessment that the arrest of a former senior SNP figure was "not great". Also very much "not great" from the SNP leader's perspective is new MRP polling from…
Lisa Nandy has said she is "baffled" some on the left are opposed to Labour's increasing focus on home ownership, arguing that helping people to buy and supporting social housing are not a "zero-sum game". The Shadow Levelling Up Secretary…
Margaret Greenwood has announced that she will stand down as as MP at the next election. Greenwood has been the Labour MP for Wirral West since 2015, when she defeated Tory cabinet minister Esther McVey by 417 votes. She held the seat in…
The NHS topped voters’ priorities in the recent local elections, a new poll shows in an apparent vindication of Labour’s focus on cutting waiting lists during the campaign and its latest health ‘mission’. Polling also shows that for…
Experts, campaign groups and unions have welcomed much of Keir Starmer's speech setting out Labour's mission for an "NHS for the future", but also warned he must commit new funding to meet freshly unveiled targets and tackle the causes of…
Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP Margaret Ferrier has lost her appeal to parliament's independent expert panel and will now be suspended from the commons for 30 days, a period long enough to trigger a recall petition in the seat. A recall…
Keir Starmer has pledged that a Labour government would meet waiting time targets for ambulances, A&E and hospital appointments by 2030. Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning whether he was formally pledging to meet targets on…
Keir Starmer will launch the third of his five missions with a speech at an Essex ambulance station at around 10.30am today – which is why we're bringing you this email early. This will focus on health and the NHS, and has been trailed with…
Labour has drafted its most comprehensive policy programme yet for a Keir Starmer government, drawing up a provisional but wide-ranging blueprint likely to shape the next general election manifesto. The 86-page policy handbook, seen by…
