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Former Post Office chair claimed request was made so government could ‘limp into’ the next election Ministers have denied claims by the former Post Office chair that the government wanted to stall compensation payouts to victims of the Horizon scandal …
Latest blow leaves scandal-hit lobby group without a high-profile speaker at annual conferenceThe business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, has reportedly dealt another blow to the scandal-hit Confederation of British Industry (CBI) by turning down an invite …
Business secretary privately met media mogul in apparent breach of ministerial code of conductKemi Badenoch failed to declare a meeting that she held with Rupert Murdoch days after she was appointed to the cabinet – in a breach of transparency rules.Th…
Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, says news would be ‘profoundly depressing’In a report last week the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the current parliament was likely to mark “a decisive and permanent shift to a higher-tax economy”.I…
Climate Change Committee head says ‘we’ve moved backwards’ after PM defends decision to delay ban on selling new petrol and diesel carsRobinson quotes from Sunak’s resignation letter as chancellor, in which he said if something sounded too good to be t…
Prime minister says he told Li Qiang, the Chinese prime minister, at G20 that Chinese interference with the work of parliament will ‘never be tolerated’Simon Clarke, who was the levelling up secretary during the Liz Truss premiership, has defended the …
Mandate for carmakers to sell increasing number of zero-emissions vehicles could be weakened, business secretary hintsKemi Badenoch has suggested electric vehicle mandates could hamper investment in Britain and lead to job losses, in a sign that anothe…
Internal battle between ministers leaving schools in England isolated, says head teachers’ representativeSchools are being left in limbo by the government’s “political squabbles” delaying its transgender guidance for students and staff, according to sc…
Equality and Human Rights Commission paused investigation into Kishwer Falkner after media leaksBritain’s equality watchdog has restarted an investigation into complaints of bullying and harassment made against its chair, Kishwer Falkner.The Equality a…
Letter from cross-party MPs and campaigners says slow progress on legislation is a ‘moral failing’Senior Conservative MPs have accused the government of a “moral failing” for delaying the long-promised ban on conversion practices that they say damage t…