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Parents of truanting children should have benefits docked, says top Tory Michael Gove

Tory Cabinet minister Michael Gove warned the government could revive plans to penalise families, but teaching unions said targeting benefit payments would just end up hurting children

Daily Mirror · Feb 28, 2023

Parents of truanting children could have benefit stopped, says Michael Gove

Cabinet minister also attacks woke politics and ‘pirate society’

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023

East Lothian council tax will rise by seven per cent as new budget approved

The council is set to charge £35 a year for garden waste collections and reduce household bin collections from fortnightly to every three weeks in bid to cut costs.

Edinburgh Live · Feb 28, 2023

Yousaf: It would be foolish to abandon SNP’s progressive agenda

The SNP leadership contender said he would use his first budget to expand free childcare provision.

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023

Humza Yousaf says rival SNP candidates should not "trash" the Government's record

The Health Secretary made his comments in an increasingly bitter leadership contest

Daily Record · Feb 28, 2023

MP reveals she dressed up as ‘idol’ Betty Boothroyd on her 4th birthday

Labour’s Charlotte Nichols shared the anecdote in the Commons during a special session to honour Lady Boothroyd’s life.

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023

Boris Johnson told to ‘put up or shut up’ and back Sunak’s Brexit deal

Rishi Sunak urged to remove Tory whip from former PM if he opposes Windsor agreement with EU

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023

DUP urged to make decision over Windsor Framework to restore Stormont

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met with some political leaders during a visit to Northern Ireland.

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023

South Gloucestershire Council voter ID row over 'rushed and ill-conceived' new law

An estimated 8,000 residents could be "disenfranchised"

Bristol Post · Feb 28, 2023

Betty Boothroyd was the first woman speaker – and the first to become a 'cult figure' via televised debates

Baroness Betty Boothroyd, who has died at the age of 93, was, in no uncertain terms, a parliamentary giant. With a career in Westminster spanning almost 50 years, she was best known for becoming the first (and so far only) female speaker of the House of Commons – a post…

The Conversation · Feb 28, 2023