The politicians have all left Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique en Marche (LREM) over the President’s lack of commitment to environmental and social issues. The French leader has failed to stick to his famous “make our planet great again” slogan from 2017, sparking
Tax cigarette giants to stub out littering: MPs call for tobacco companies to pick up the tab for cleaning butt-strewn streets New platic tax on cigarettes being considered to tackle scourge of littered butts It is made possible by a new power
Will staff get vaccine passports for offices? MPs eye plan to allow bosses to use documents to help reopen offices after Covid pandemic Ministers considering allowing workplace vaccine passports when reopening Employers would be able to compel staff to prove they had
Boris Johnson faced calls to lift lockdown faster last night as Covid infections, hospital cases and deaths hit a six-month low. Four NHS regions – covering 29million people across southern England – reported no deaths on Sunday. Just 23 fatalities were logged elsewhere.
MPs from both the Conservative and Labour Party have moved forward with plans to block the Government’s £4bn cut to foreign aid, sparking widespread outrage. Danielle Boxall, from the Tax Payers’ Alliance, blasted the plan from Tory MPs that could potentially take
Boris Johnson and Joe Biden last night condemned China after it sanctioned British MPs for exposing what the Prime Minister called ‘gross human rights violations’. Mr Johnson and the US President spoke on the phone to ‘express their concerns’ over Beijing’s move, which
The Prime Minister praised the nine critics for “shining a light” on the gross human rights violations and stressed that he stood “firmly with them”. China’s hardline action is widely seen as a tit-for-tat retaliation for UK sanctions over Beijing’s treatment of
Their comments came after the Chinese Communist Party slapped sanctions on a number of MPs, including former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith. The move was made in response to the UK placing their own measures on Chinese officials deemed responsible for
The Commons voted by 484 to 76, a majority of 408, to keep powers in place untl the end of September. And Health Secretary Matt Hancock would not rule out a further renewal. He claimed that the laws – unprecedented in peacetime
Stephen Timms MP: Chairman of work and pensions committee has asked DWP to explain how it is prioritising payouts to elderly women MPs have demanded the Government reveals how it plans to prioritise £3billion of state pension backpayments to elderly women, and