Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said he wants to “bring crypto in from the cold” and put an immediate halt to work on a potential UK central bank digital currency (CBDC).| www.globalgovernmentfintech.com
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has said a future Conservative government would get rid of stamp duty. We look at what it might mean for the housing market The post Should stamp duty be scrapped? appeared first on Big Issue.| Big Issue
Testing of the site began 12 months ago and almost immediately led to complaints from residents| Derbyshire Live
It took the power of Andy Burnham’s example to tame Robert Jenrick. Expectations heading into the Conservative Party’s annual conference suggested the shadow justice secretary would continue to strut his stuff in front of his activist admirers. But Jenrick, by his usual insubordinate standards, was a model of servility. For this, Kemi Badenoch likely has... Read more » The post Week-in-Review: Starmer and Badenoch repel their pretenders – for now appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
A former Labour councillor has been charged on a count of blackmail over last year's scandal that brought down a senior Tory MP.| Express.co.uk
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is set to fundamentally improve work for the millions of workers stuck on exploitative short and zero-hours contracts. But it’s not a done deal — key hurdles still need to be overcome to deliver what we promised at the last election. Not least the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who have been... Read more »| Politics.co.uk
Councillors Marcus Vickers and David Reynard said residents of the town felt they were 'always back of the queue'| Teesside Live
Bristolians will find out today who will run Bristol City Council for the next four years after casting their votes in yesterday's local elections| Bristol Live
Birmingham Council was told by the GMB union this month that progress on equal pay "is too slow"| Birmingham Live
The party ended with 34 councillors, two shy of the magic figure of 36 required to be bigger than all the other groups combined.| Bristol Live
Drawing on her first biography for the House of Commons, 1832-1868 project, our new research fellow Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones looks at the behind the scenes involvement of the long-serving Conservative …| The Victorian Commons
In my previous post, I mentioned that in the wake of the general election, which saw the Conservative Party suffer its worst result in history, the chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers (ACP), Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, decided to … Continue reading →| The Norton View
The Tory leadership candidates are out to prove how 'anti-woke' they are. It shows they're still in denial about losing the election.| Big Issue
One of the small pleasures in life is post-election laughing at desperate Tories - and Thérèse Coffey and Mel Stride have given us that| Canary
New figures show how companies are profiteering through more creeping NHS privatisation - this time over mental health bed provision.| Canary
The UK is set for a general election on 4 July. Global Government Forum experts discuss the key issues in the election.| www.globalgovernmentforum.com
In January, I noted on this blog that – just like one of the RAF’s bombers in 1942 and one of the Natural History Museum’s dinosaur skeletons in 1975 – one of the (Not Very)…| Labour Pains
