LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine ) – Keir Starmer began PMQs by questioning Boris Johnson whether he supported, opposed, or was on the fence about a windfall tax on energy businesses. There was no clarity on the matter even at the end of
KYIV (Parliament politics Magazine) – For the first time, there are now more open jobs than jobless individuals in the UK. During January and March, the unemploment rate decreased to 3.7 percent, the least in over 50 years, while job vacancies reached
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) – According to a senior government source, the UK government is planning to introduce legislation that would empower London ministers to overturn aspects of the Brexit deal affecting Northern Ireland. Boris Johnson will travel to Belfast later this
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Labour will call for a vote on Tuesday to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas corporations, claiming it would be humiliating not to do so to help with growing living costs. The government’s refusal to
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The education minister has slammed the suggestion that prestigious universities like Cambridge and Oxford should bend the system to admit more students from public schools. Admissions should be based on merit, according to Nadhim Zahawi, and 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) – Boris Johnson’s “P&O-style” strategy to slashing 91,000 Whitehall jobs could be met by a strike, warns the biggest civil service union, with officials also trying to decrease staff redundancy terms by up to a third. After Johnson
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) – Natalie McGarry, a former Scottish National Party MP, was found guilty of embezzlement of about £25,000 from a pro-independence group she helped start as well as her local Scottish National Party unit. She was found guilty by