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Workers in the UK are set to experience the most severe "wage squeeze" among G7 countries as pay is forecast to slump by more than 6% in real terms over the next two years, according to research by the TUC. Analysis of figures from the…
Prime Minister's Questions took place this afternoon overshadowed by the spectre of the ongoing Tory leadership election. This is likely to be Boris Johnson's penultimate session – who knows who Keir Starmer will be standing opposite next?…
Keir Starmer had a very good week. After Boris Johnson announced that he would be stepping down last Wednesday, the Labour leader was cleared by the police of any wrongdoing in relation to ‘beergate’ on Friday; the unlikely situation…
Boris Johnson announced on Thursday that he would stand down as Prime Minister following the resignation of more than 50 Conservative ministers within two days, including Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Chancellor Rishi Sunak. During his…
Boris Johnson has finally agreed to go. Following an unprecedented number of resignations over the past few days, a Downing Street source said this morning that the Prime Minister conceded – to 1922 committee chair Graham Brady – that it is…
Boris Johnson entered the Commons chamber to audible boos today ahead of Prime Minister's Questions, which set the scene for the tense session that followed. Keir Starmer had a clear goal in his line of questioning: to ensure that every…
The government was rocked by a series of high-profile resignations last night. First to go was Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who said he could no longer "in good conscience" continue serving in the government. He was swiftly followed by…
"It’s realistic." That was Emily Thornberry's assessment of Keir Starmer's announcement yesterday that a Labour government would not seek to rejoin the single market. Speaking to Sky News this morning, the Shadow Attorney General described…
Keir Starmer will today set out Labour's plan to "make Brexit work". In a speech to the Centre for European Reform think tank, the Labour leader is expected to say: “There are some who say ‘we don’t need to make Brexit work, we need to…
"It would be me being dishonest if I said we expected to lose," Harrow councillor David Perry tells me. We are discussing the local election results, which saw Labour lose control of the council to the Conservatives. "We didn't expect to…
It was the turn of Angela Rayner and Dominic Raab to face off at the despatch box this week, as Boris Johnson is attending the NATO summit in Madrid. The deputy Labour leader pushed the deputy Prime Minister to move against his absent boss…
Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday that she wants to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence in October 2023. The First Minister has asked the Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the Scottish government holding a…
