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How fox hunting ban could show path forward for assisted dying bill

Supporters of the assisted dying bill are planning to enlist some 200 MPs to attempt to bring it back into contention this summer.

Steel bosses warn ‘back door’ loophole in UK trade rules could lead to job cuts and closures

New measures will protect Tata and British Steel but allow foreign pre-made parts into the UK, say industry bosses Steel bosses have warned ministers that a “back door” in new trade rules could hit British manufacturers and lead to job cuts and factory closures by allowing a vast array of foreign products to still enter the UK tax-free. The loophole means pre-made steel parts ranging from bridge sections, columns and door frames, all the way to smaller rods and tubes used in buildings, will esca

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King Charles’s state visit to US to go ahead, Buckingham Palace confirms

Visit with Camilla to take place in late April despite calls for it to be delayed because of US war against Iran UK politics live – latest updates The king’s state visit to the US is to go ahead next month as planned, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Charles and the queen’s long-expected trip to see Donald Trump will take place in late April, despite calls for it to be postponed because of the ongoing war in the Middle East. Continue reading...

Fleur Butler: The case for women in power is not fairness – it’s competence

Women bring different instincts to group decision-making. They are less inclined towards automatic loyalty and more likely to interrogate assumptions before committing to a course of action.  The post Fleur Butler: The case for women in power is not fairness – it’s competence appeared first on Conservative Home.

Rachel Reeves ‘critical’ warning as 1.3k businesses could be ‘on brink of collapse’

The Chancellor has been told to make sure firms don't go over the edge amid hostile conditions.

Andrew Gilligan: Britain is in a mess, but not as much as you might think

Significant parts of the political debate, on left and right, are based on official statistics which are wrong. And the wrongness more often seems to be in one direction - towards the gloomy, the pessimistic and the negative. The post Andrew Gilligan: Britain is in a mess, but not as much as you might think appeared first on Conservative Home.

Ed Miliband's 'mad plan' slammed as energy bills to rise by £288 a year from July

Soaring wholesale costs of energy caused by the Iran war are set to push up Ofgem's price cap.

BMA dismisses Starmer’s 48-hour warning over resident doctors’ strike plan – UK politics live

Prime minister threatens to withdraw NHS training posts for residents doctors if they don’t call off strike The grooming gangs inquiry will directly examine whether ethnicity, culture or religion influenced offending and whether they shaped the institutional response, the Press Association reports. Good morning. Keir Starmer is chairing a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee later to discuss the Iran war, but domestic issues don’t go away and he (or, to be more accurate, his sta

The toughest job facing the new head of Ofcom: tackling the blatantly partisan GB News | Polly Toynbee

It will take a regulator with grit and guts to enforce the UK’s impartiality laws. This is Labour’s chance to remedy our twisted media landscape Labour feels more sure-footed. A stronger sense of its own identity flows from standing up to Donald Trump, his war and his insults. MPs are less often looking over their shoulders at the right and its media. Here comes one test. Selecting a new chair of the media regulator Ofcom is in its final phase: which of two reported frontrunners is appointed w

Our Survey: Big support for Badenoch’s position at the start of the Iran war and for increased defence spending

81.2 per cent of responders back Badenoch in saying she'd have granted use of our bases from the start of operations. 62.3 per cent say they backed the US and Israel striking the Iranian regime. 92.8 per cent back the UK spending more on defence, and faster. The post Our Survey: Big support for Badenoch’s position at the start of the Iran war and for increased defence spending appeared first on Conservative Home.

Fury as civil servants try to use Iran war as excuse to avoid the office

Civil servants are demanding remote working due to the war between Iran, the US and Israel.