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  • London ‘left out’ of Reeves’ spending review 

    June 9, 2025

    London will find itself low on the chancellor’s agenda in the upcoming spending review, reports suggest.  London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been lobbying for extending the DLR to Thamesmead, and the Bakerloo line to Lewisham. However, getting the requisite funding to grow the transport system is looking unlikely. Bringing the Bakerloo line further south is anticipated [...]

  • Government needs to focus on lowering energy costs to sell net zero, polling says

    June 9, 2025

    The government’s embattled net zero mission suffers from a PR problem.  Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has been tasked with two huge goals: achieving clean power by 2030, and net zero by 2050. According to fresh polling by PR agency Grayling Media, 55 per cent of people think the 2030 clean power target cannot be attained.  [...]

  • Zia Yusuf returns to Reform – just two days after quitting 

    June 8, 2025

    Zia Yusuf is returning to Reform UK as head of their “UK DOGE” programme.  Just two days after the party chairman stepped down, following a dispute with the party over whether they would support the introduction of a burqa ban, Yusuf announced his new role on social media. Yusuf said he reconsidered stepping away from [...]

  • DESNZ shedding nuclear ministers as spending review threatens net zero mission

    June 6, 2025

    The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has lost two ministers in the span of a month in a blow to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. Philip Hunt, nuclear minister, retired less than a year into his tenure, citing wanting to spend more time with his family.  He was followed in short succession by [...]

  • Reform lost their businessman – what does this mean for the party?

    June 6, 2025

    Barely a week ago, Zia Yusuf was hosting journalists in the City, trying to sell them on Reform’s crypto plan. But things quickly went awry for the Reform party chairman.  On Wednesday, Yusuf publicly contradicted Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s call in Parliament for a burqa ban. On Thursday, he resigned.  The chairman announced he was [...]

  • Farage considered ‘more working class’ than Starmer, polling finds 

    June 6, 2025

    Reform leader Nigel Farage is seen by voters to have more solid working class credentials than Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, fresh polling by More in Common has found. 19 per cent see the Reform leader as a member of the working class. For Starmer, the number is 17 per cent. This follows Farage’s claim [...]

  • Calls to overhaul UK’s ‘outdated’ sanctions regime

    June 5, 2025

    Experts are calling for an overhaul of the UK’s “outdated” sanctions regime, which is “ill-equipped” to face modern forms of crime and conflict. Former justice secretary Robert Buckland has argued for reforming the UK sanctions system to better suit modern threats, writing in a report by the Adam Smith Institute (ASI). The Sanctions and Anti-Money [...]

  • Labour’s not for turning but the Inheritance Tax battle will rumble on

    June 5, 2025

    Civil servants and politicians could not believe their eyes. As the hoarse grumble of diesel motors thundered along Whitehall, a fleet of tractors descended onto Parliament Square, heralded by a cacophony of honks to the tune of Aqua’s Barbie Girl.  Beginning in November, farmers marched to Westminster to protest the government’s inheritance tax (IHT) reforms. [...]

  • ‘Never again’: Shadow Chancellor apologises for Truss’ mini-budget

    June 5, 2025

    Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride is set to apologise for the fallout from the 2022 mini-budget, vowing that “never again will the Conservative Party undermine fiscal credibility by making promises we cannot afford.” In a speech later today, Stride is expected to apologise on behalf of the Tory government for having “put at risk the very [...]

  • Government warned over demand for landlords to retrofit homes  

    June 5, 2025

    Government plans to improve the energy efficiency of private rented housing are “unachievable” due to a shortage of skilled workers, the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has warned.  Under current proposals by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), which are aimed at keeping homes warm and energy bills low, landlords have until [...]

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