LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – A minister has stated that an examination into claims that Carrie Johnson held a party during the lockdown that was not included in the Sue Gray investigation is not immediately clear. Over the last six months, Chris
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – According to the new government guidelines, those ministers who breach standards regulations in a “minor” fashion will not be expected to quit or risk dismissal. MPs have historically been expected to resign from government if they violate
ANKARA (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The process for application of NATO membership was started earlier this month by Finland and Sweden despite Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s stated opposition. As Russia’s war on Ukraine rages, Ankara is out of sync with the
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Top officials who violated the Covid lockdown rules at the parties in and around Downing Street are to be named by Sue Gray. After the Met Police’s conclusion of their investigation, the senior civil servant is free
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will outline the UK government’s plans for revising Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trade pact. It comes after the Prime Minister claimed the arrangement, which governs the entrance of goods in Northern Ireland from the
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The government has decided to postpone a ban on multi-buy junk food offers and pre-watershed TV advertising. The plans will be put on hold for a year as officials analyse the impact on household budgets as households
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – If energy corporations do not invest sufficiently in new projects, the chancellor has threatened to levy a one-time “windfall” tax. Rishi Sunak went on to say that he hopes to see investment “soon” to improve energy security,
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – As he gave the Queen’s Speech, Prince Charles outlined the priorities of the government for the next year. After the Queen dropped out owing to difficulties with her health, he stood in for her at the ceremony
BELFAST (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Sinn Féin has called for a debate on a united Ireland, hailing its first victory in a Northern Ireland assembly election as a watershed moment for the British-controlled province. On Saturday, the party’s president, Mary Lou McDonald,
CANBERRA (Parliament Politics Magazine) – According to whistleblowers, Facebook employed an overly aggressive blocking system to take down the pages of Australian emergency services last year as a negotiation strategy. Following a dispute over paying news sources, the social media platform decided
JERUSALEM (Parliament Politics Magazine) – A key holy site in Jerusalem was cleared of Palestinian demonstrators by the Israeli police on Thursday, as the Jews began visiting which had been stopped for Muslim holidays. Several rounds of unrest had taken place in
BRUSSELS (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, revealed a proposal today to impose an EU-wide embargo on Russian oil imports, which are one of Moscow’s key revenue sources. The embargo will be methodical and progressive, with