Politics

Rishi Sunak confirms HS2's Manchester leg will be scrappedSign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailOne of Rishi Sunak’s predecessors has attacked the decision to scrap the northern leg of HS2 to Manchester, saying the prime minister had “thrown away 15 years of…

28m ago / 4:46 PM EDTCourt adjourns for the day, but Trump and James stay behindLisa Rubin, Adam Reiss and Dareh GregorianThe judge adjourned the trial for the day at 4:30 p.m., but he asked the lawyers and AG Letitia James to stay behind.Trump was still in the courtroom as well, but reporters and spectators were cleared out. The judge did not…

DALLAS (Nexstar) — Once outspoken on GOP politics as Miss Texas, Averie Bishop is running as a Democrat in a competitive district northeast of Dallas, aiming to unseat the longtime Rep. Angie Chen Button, R-Richardson. Bishop announced her bid for Texas House District 112 in late August, months before the November filing deadline. In a…

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15m ago / 4:57 PM EDTManchin: Final Senate will vote 'within an hour'Exiting the ongoing meeting of Senate Democrats, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said the final Senate vote on the House-passed CR “should be within an hour."19m ago / 4:53 PM EDTObama's Russia ambassador calls CR a 'big gift' to PutinFormer U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat and champion of liberal causes who was elected to the Senate in 1992 and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90.Feinstein died on Thursday night at her home in…

WASHINGTON – Looking back on it, Philip Cohen takes a measure of pride in the fact that he was blocked by the former president of the United States.But in that moment in 2017, when Cohen pulled up Donald Trump's feed on what was then known as Twitter and realized what happened, he didn't feel smug or vindicated.He felt muted."I was honestly…

Speaking in New York today, Leo Varadkar said: “The priority for me is that we reduce income tax and USC.”He said in would be aimed in particular at middle-income workers.It would mean that people get to keep more of the money they earn, he said, adding that despite reports, a new middle rate of tax, was “never something I've been pushing very…

Rishi Sunak has insisted the Tories “remain committed” to the state pension triple lock but refused to commit to keeping the policy in place beyond the next general election. There is a growing debate in Westminster over the long term affordability of the pledge which ensures pensions rise by the highest of three…

Fresh cases of diphtheria have been reported among asylum seekers in England for the first time since January, new figures show.Three cases of the bacterial infection were reported in August, taking the total number of cases for 2023 to 77 - up from 74 previously. No further cases were recorded between February and July. Diphtheria…