Without action, a crisis over pensions looms June 6, 2019 The row over pensions for women born in the 1950s stepped up a gear this week when campaigners headed to the High Court for a judicial review. Women used to retire at 60, five years earlier than men. In 1995, a timetable was drawn up to equalise this, phasing in the increase. However, the changes [...]
Theresa May and Emmanuel Macron commemorate 75th D-Day anniversary June 6, 2019 Political leaders including Theresa May and French president Emmanuel Macron today paid tribute to the veterans of the D-Day landings on the 75th anniversary of the event. May and Macron gathered in Normandy with hundreds of veterans to thank them for their service. The French president told the crowd that “we owe them our freedom”. [...]
Rory Stewart: Dominic Raab’s no-deal Brexit plan ‘illegal’ June 6, 2019 Tory leadership contender Rory Stewart has labelled rival Dominic Raab’s bid to force a no-deal Brexit through parliament as “illegal”. Raab yesterday said he would be ready as Prime Minister to suspend parliament so he could force a no-deal departure from the EU. Read more: Tory leadership rivals caught in Westminster row The former Brexit [...]
Tory leadership rivals Rory Stewart and Sam Gyimah caught in Westminster war of words June 5, 2019 Tory leadership tensions spilled over into parliament today when two contenders were seen having a passionate row in the corridors of power. Sam Gyimah and Rory Stewart were seen having a robust exchange of words at just after lunchtime on Wednesday, the day after the party made it more difficult for leadership hopefuls to get [...]
Stick with HS2 or scrap it? Where every Tory leadership contender stands on the £56bn railway June 5, 2019 Theresa May has just days left as Tory leader, and it’s not just Brexit where the future is unclear – HS2 is also at a crossroads. Much of the talk around May’s potential successors has been centred on their stance on a no-deal Brexit. But in the transport world, all minds are focused on whether [...]
Kit Malthouse pulls out of Tory leadership race June 4, 2019 Kit Malthouse has become the second Tory MP to pull out of the contest to replace Theresa May, after James Cleverly announced he was also pulling out. Malthouse was considered an outsider in the race, in which 11 Tory MPs are now running. Malthouse served as a deputy mayor to the frontrunner in the race, [...]
All Change UK: Tory and Labour MPs disband after election failure June 4, 2019 Change UK, the fledging party formed by ex-Tory and Labour MPs, has split after just four months. Eleven MPs came together in February to form what was originally known as The Independent Group, before adopting the name Change UK for the European elections. Read more: Change UK has no hope among voters The party, which [...]
Five extraordinary remarks from Trump’s Whitehall press conference June 4, 2019 As tens of thousands of people took to the streets today in central London to protest President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, the object of their ire gave a joint press conference with Theresa May in Whitehall. Trump’s press conferences are seldom dull affairs, and his arrival in the UK was marked by [...]
HS2 chair to carry out project review to ensure ‘it is deliverable’, says Chris Grayling June 4, 2019 The chair of under-fire HS2 is undertaking a review of the project to “make sure the costs and budget are right and that it is deliverable,” transport secretary Chris Grayling has said. HS2 has become a battleground among the Tories vying to replace Theresa May as Prime Minister, with some pledging to continue with the [...]
Michael Gove to meet President Trump in private June 4, 2019 Donald Trump is set for a one-to-one meeting with environment secretary Michael Gove after the US president requested a get-together. A source close to Gove confirmed Trump’s team asked for the meeting last night, and details are currently being ironed out. Gove met Trump in January 2017, when he interview him for the Times in [...]