Category: John Swinney

Starmer highlights UK’s war record in implicit rebuke to Vance as Lib Dems mock Badenoch for defending him – as it happened

Interventions follow US vice president’s comments about ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 40 years’. This live blog is closedIn response to a question about intelligence...

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Starmer highlights UK’s war record in implicit rebuke to Vance as Lib Dems mock Badenoch for defending him – UK politics live

Interventions follow US vice president’s comments about ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 40 years’In response to a question about intelligence cooperation with the US, Sir...

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Starmer highlights UK’s war record in implicit rebuke to Vance as Badenoch says she does not approve of ‘Twitter pile-ons’ – UK politics live

Interventions follow US vice president’s comments about ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 40 years’In response to a question about intelligence cooperation with the US, Sir...

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King Charles meets Zelenskyy after president attends summit in London

Ukraine’s leader invited to Sandringham following gathering of European leaders hosted by Keir StarmerThe king has met Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Norfolk estate, Sandringham, shortly after Ukraine’s president...

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Starmer refuses to rule out defence budget being used to fund Chagos Islands deal – UK politics live

PM fields questions on his announcement that the UK will raise defence spending and cut the foreign aid budgetPMQs is about to start.Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.The threat from the far right is real, but that...

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Badenoch challenges Starmer over defence spending and Chagos deal ahead of his Trump meeting – UK politics live

PM fields questions on his announcement that the UK will raise defence spending and cut the foreign aid budgetPMQs is about to start.Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.The threat from the far right is real, but that...

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Miliband tells MPs UK needs to ‘speed up, not slow down’ in net zero drive – UK politics live

Energy secretary insists there is ‘no contradiction between net zero and economic growth’ in hearing at Commons committeeThe hearing has stopped for a short break. Heather Hallett, the chair, tells Badenoch that her...

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Swinney to warn opposition of fuelling populism if Scottish budget not passed

Scottish Labour, Greens and Lib Dem MSPs accuse first minister of ‘creating false narrative’ John Swinney, Scotland’s first minister, will warn opposition parties that they will fuel populist forces if they...

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PCS union says Starmer’s criticism of civil servants ‘inaccurate and cowardly’ – UK politics live

Public and Commercial Services union joins FDA in criticising PM for the comments in his speech on ThursdayHere is the ‘family photo’ from today’s British-Irish Council (BIC) summit in Edinburgh. The BIC was...

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