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In the end, the first drop of the Mandelson files contained neither a smoking gun nor bombshell revelation. The most newsworthy elements in this 147-page document detailing the vetting, appointment and severance of the ex-US ambassador were the eyewatering Β£75,000 payoff Peter Mandelson received for being sacked – he had asked for near Β£550,000 –…
π Listen to This Is Why on your podcast app π The first batch of the Mandelson files have finally been released – but even though there’s still more to come, there are already serious questions for the prime minister. What was the vetting process before Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the…
Majorities of over 100 sound pretty healthy. But those numbers do not tell the whole story. There was an ominous warning for the government in the voting figures on its controversial jury trial reforms. The numbers revealed that in the two votes, 93 Labour MPs failed to support the government in the first vote and…
Labour MP Charlotte Nichols has told the House of Commons that it took 1,088 days after she was raped for her case to reach court. During a debate on the Courts and Tribunals Bill, she said that she was raped at an event she attended as an MP. While she has previously spoken about the…
The government has announced a new definition of anti-Muslim hate that includes violence, harassment and prejudicial stereotyping – as it insisted the move will not curtail free speech. Ministers say it is a working definition and a “tool for government and organisations to better understand, measure, prevent and address anti-Muslimβ―hostility”. Crucially, the definition is non-statutory…
MPs have voted against a proposal to ban under-16s from using social media. The Conservatives had pushed for the move via an amendment to the government’s flagship education legislation currently going through parliament: the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. It had been backed by the House of Lords, but was defeated in the Commons on…
X has been questioned by MPs over “the most appalling and offensive” AI posts about the Hillsborough disaster.Β Over the weekend, Grok, X’s AI tool, was found to be falsely blaming Liverpool fans for the 1989 disaster, which led to the deaths of 97 fans, and using derogatory language about the city. A Sky News…
πListen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast appπ As Iran names its new supreme leader oil prices skyrocket, sending shockwaves across the global economy – but how will the UK government deal with the issue? US President Donald Trump claims the surge is a “small price to pay” for peace – but…
“We will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!” The latest late-night broadside from Donald Trump has torn another strip off the tattered remains of the special relationship Sir Keir Starmer has spent the past year trying to cultivate. Politics Live: ‘PM learning lessons from what went wrong in Iraq’…
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called on Sir Keir Starmer to cancel the King’s US state visit over the war in Iran. The King is due to visit the US next month. Politics Live: PM ‘learning lessons from what went wrong in Iraq’ Sir Ed said: “Keir Starmer should advise the King that…