Parliament in London on July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) The U.K. has its first change in government in 14 years after the Labour Party won a landslide victory early Friday in a general election that saw the Conservative Party suffer its biggest defeat ever. The new government ...
Alongside these challenges to the structure of the standards regime, there have been ongoing problems of sexist conduct in the UK parliament. In April 2022, unnamed Tory MPs made a sexist slur against the deputy Opposition leader Angela Rayner, which was condemned as misogynist by Prime Minister ...
announced in the King’s Speech. Charles III highlighted that the UK government will “legislate to … ban exploitative practices and enhance employment rights”, confirming that a new Employment Rights Bill is expected to be brought before the UK Parliament in the coming months. ...
Arguably, the trend toward independence was boosted in the late 1990s when the process of devolution began. This meant that certain powers and responsibilities were devolved from the government in Westminster to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales (Scotland and Wales have their own Parliaments while...
The first seat of the 2024 general election has been called for Labour in the constituency of Houghton and Sunderland South. Bridget Phillipson, Labour's education chief, was declared the first member of the U.K.'s new parliament. She said that if exit polls were correct, "then after 14 ...
UK's Gove Says Stepping up No-Deal Contingency Planning More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Britain's Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove leaves the Houses of Parliament as parliament discusses Brexit, sitting on a Saturday for the first time since the 1982 Falklands War, in London, Britain...
Johnson has divided opinion after being accused of mismanaging government and misleading parliament. However, Truss has consistently distanced herself from his detractors and therefore managed to gain crucial support for her leadership bid from members of the ruling Conservative Par...
European Parliament adopts new AML laws On 24 April 2024, the European Parliament announced that it had adopted the new Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism package, comprising (i) the sixth AML directive, (ii) the EU “single rulebook” regulation, and (iii) the An...
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Reeves added that she has instructed Treasury officials to provide an assessment on the state of British spending inherited from the previous Conservative administration, which she aims to present to Parliament before summer recess. Housing and planning were center stage in Reeves' Monday speech: ...