P&O’s boss now admits some crew earn as little as £4.87 per hour. 2 years ago, he told MPs minimum hourly rate was £5.15.

2 months ago, when ITV/Guardian told P&O we’d seen evidence hourly rate was as low as £4.87, P&O said “we don’t recognise the pay rates you are referencing.”

Who killed Liz Truss? In the second part of my interview with her, the former prime minister completes her witness statement and reveals what she felt and what she did after she received official advice that the government faced its most acute financial crisis for almost 50

New The Rest Is Politics LEADING with the formidable, indefatigable Nancy Pelosi - definitely the first of our guests who attended JFK inauguration and whose massive experience and strong views are worth an hour of anyone’s time alastaircampbell.org/2024/05/72-nan…

Who killed Liz Truss? In the second part of my interview with her, the former prime minister completes her witness statement and reveals what she felt and what she did after she received official advice that the government faced its most acute financial crisis for almost 50

“He needs to own this [election flop] and therefore he needs to fix it…Our voters are on strike”. Suella Braverman MP tells Laura Kuenssberg it is too late to change the party’s leader and so he has to change his priorities. “At this rate we’ll be lucky to have any Conservative MPs after

Labour’s Parker beats Tory Andy Street by a whisker. Street - 224,082, Parker - 225,590. But pro Palestine independent
Yakoob got 69,621. If most of those had gone to Labour, the margin of victory would have been significant

Labour claims victory over Tory Andy Street in West Midlands. Extraordinary win, by the narrowest of margins, when so many votes went to the pro-Palestine anti Starmer candidate Akhmed Yakoob. Very bad news for Rishi Sunak

We’ve recorded a fourth (and fifth) episode of our The Rest is Money miniseries “Who Killed Liz Truss?”. It’s her testimony (an interview with her)

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The national equivalent vote share (NEV) extrapolation from the local elections, which puts Labour on 34% and the Tories on 25%, is a useful gauge of relative success, but may not be desperately useful in predicting seat numbers in a general election - because the NEV does not

Liz Truss Goes Head-To-Head With Robert Peston - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=lAD1WO…

Wise Tory MPs are aware that it is the underlying vote numbers they should focus on not the headlines about Reform coming third rather than second in Blackpool or the retention by a few votes of Harlow council. It would suit Sunak if his MPs can’t count, because the underlying

If you were interested in my piece yesterday about Gordon Brown calling for a second criminal investigation into phone hacking, you will be gripped by this amazing long read by ⁦Nick Davies⁩ in ⁦Prospect⁩ prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/ph…

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'What we didn't know was the explanation they were giving to the police for why they'd done this.'

Gordon Brown tells Robert Peston he's demanded the Met launch a fresh probe over phone hacking by News International amid 'cover up' allegations

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Exclusive: former prime minister Gordon Brown has written to the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley calling for a second criminal phone-hacking investigation into News Group Newspapers, namely into the alleged “destruction of evidence by the organisation and the cover up that

We’ve recorded a fourth (and fifth) episode of our The Rest is Money miniseries “Who Killed Liz Truss?”. It’s her testimony (an interview with her)

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

open.spotify.com/episode/57MN1Q…

“It is beginning to have that deterrent effect”

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt suggests the threat of being deported to Rwanda has resulted in more asylum seekers crossing the border from Northern Ireland into Ireland

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'It is... we would like to be able to return people who cross the channel illegally to France'

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says he wants to see a joined up approach to tackle illegal immigration with Ireland and France

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