Politics
Masks to become mandatory in Parliament…. For everyone except MPs
One staffer said it is "ridiculous that they’re being exempted from steps which will keep us all safe.”
‘And that’s the power of Twitter’: Ministers’ U-turn over legal controls against dumping raw sewage into waterways
The change follows a public outcry after the Government instructed Tory MPs to vote down similar proposals last week.
Michael Gove tells MPs freeports will be an big Brexit benefit
Gove declined to point out that the EU is currently home to around 80 freeports.
As sewage spews, flashback to Goldsmith pledging greener Brexit Britain
Goldsmith - an environment minister - vowed that standards would "improve" after Brexit in 2019. How things change.
Watch: Kay Burley tears Paul Scully to shreds over public sector pay rise
Burley grilled the business minister over whether Rishi Sunak's ending of the public sector pay freeze will actually increase wages.
EU bans its diplomats from Cop26 meetings because of UK’s Covid surge
It comes amid a new surge in coronavirus cases in Britain which is more than three-times the infection rate of the EU average.
TLE talks to… the Green Party’s new leaders: ‘We’re the real deal’
Can Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay turn the Greens into Britain's pre-eminent third party?
Tory MP suspended from Commons for ‘egregious’ lobbying breach
Owen Paterson could face a by-election after the Commons Standards Committee published its findings.
EU energy ministers could cut off third countries – ‘like UK’ – crisis worsens
If energy shortages worsen, EU governments can resort to curbing sales of natural gas and power to 'third countries', which includes Britain as of this year.