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Israel-Iran another huge challenge for government

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC On a normal weekend, MPs might try to snatch a bit of downtime, or squeeze in a game of pin the tail on the donkey at a constituency summer fete. Ministers might be ploughing through documents in their red box, or rehearsing the next round of “lines […]

Assisted dying bill: What happens next?

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

Oscar Bentley Political reporter Parliament The draft law that would legalise assisted dying in some circumstances in England and Wales has cleared all of its initial stages in the House of Commons. MPs voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in principle back in November by a majority of 55. […]

Reform UK declares war on Lincolnshire’s net-zero projects

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

PA Media Boston and Skegness MP Richard Tice calls net zero “madness” Reform UK leaders in Lincolnshire say they have “declared war” on green energy projects. Boston and Skegness MP Richard Tice, Greater Lincolnshire’s mayor Dame Andrea Jenkyns and Councillor Sean Matthews, who leads the county council, launched a campaign at a press conference held […]

Could this be the most significant Nato since the Cold War?

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

BBC As the world holds its breath to see what happens next after the US launched direct attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites, US President Donald Trump is expected in the Netherlands on Tuesday for a Nato summit. This will be Trump’s first Nato meeting since being re-elected. In the past, he’s made angry comments about […]

Why the honeymoon was so short-lived

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

Henry Zeffman Chief Political Correspondent Leela Padmanabhan BBC News BBC By the time polls closed at 10pm on 4 July 2024, the Labour Party knew they were likely to return to government – even if they could not quite bring themselves to believe it. For Sir Keir Starmer, reminiscing 10 months later in an interview […]

How much will it cost?

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

Labour’s original plan to reform the welfare system was a hasty effort to try to make billions of pounds of cuts to a rapidly growing bill in order to help the chancellor meet her self-imposed rules on government borrowing. But this latest U-turn raises significant questions about just how stability and credibility-enhancing it really is […]

Prime minister’s benefit cuts U-turn leaves backbenchers feeling bruised

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

Henry Zeffman Chief Political Correspondent Reuters “What an absolute bloody shambles!” When we tell you that this is the unvarnished view of a Labour MP now willing to back Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s benefits plans, you get a sense of how much anger this row has provoked and is still provoking. And there are still […]

What has been driving the rise in disability benefit claims?

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

Ben Chu and Tom Edgington BBC Verify Getty Images The government has confirmed details of its scaled-back plan to reform health and disability benefits, following pressure from Labour MPs. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said changes to Pip (Personal Independence Payment) would only apply to new claimants. She also confirmed that payments to existing […]

Home Office to share asylum hotel locations with Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

The location of hotels housing asylum seekers will be shared with food delivery companies as part of a crackdown on illegal working, the Home Office has said. The agreement with Deliveroo, Just East and Uber Eats enables the firms to identify behaviour which indicates illegal working, such as an account spending a lot of time […]

Civil service interns must all be working class, government says

Reporter USAugust 1, 2025

The government will restrict civil service internships to students from poorer families as part of a drive from ministers to make Whitehall more working class. The main internship scheme designed to attract university students to the civil service will now only be available for students from “lower socio-economic backgrounds”, judged by what jobs their parents […]

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