At last, a consensus is emerging on protecting women-only spaces Compassion and common sense are prevailing in a sensitive conflict over rights The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2023
Government retreats from Brexit bill plan to ditch EU laws Climbdown likely after cross-party Lords revolt threatens to defeat Jacob Rees-Mogg’s retained EU law bill The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2023
Over 100,000 people sign petition telling Tories not to amend Equality Act The UK Government is reportedly considering amending the Equality Act to define sex as 'biological rather than gender' The National (Scotland) · Apr 7, 2023
Why Britain’s new CPTPP trade deal will not make up for Brexit The UK recently announced that it will join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), giving British businesses access to the 11 other members of the Indo-Pacific trade bloc and bringing its combined GDP to £11 trillion. The Conversation · Apr 6, 2023
What would changing the Equality Act mean for trans people and single-sex spaces? Kemi Badenoch is considering amending the act to define people’s sex as biological sex in England, Scotland and Wales The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2023
Anger over admission that ministers meet climate change deniers 'all the time' Greenpeace UK has called on the Government to listen to 'actual experts' after it emerged business secretary Kemi Badenoch had dined with members of the American Enterprise Institute, which has been branded a "climate denial front group" Daily Mirror · Apr 5, 2023
UK ministers meet climate change deniers ‘all the time’, government says Admission comes after business secretary met with controversial US think-tank The Independent UK · Apr 5, 2023
Trans women could be banned from single-sex spaces under proposal to define sex as 'biological' The recommendation comes from crossbench peer Baroness Kishwer Falkner, who chairs the Equality and Human Rights Commission and was asked to carry out a review Daily Mirror · Apr 5, 2023
Kemi Badenoch could rewrite law to allow trans exclusion from single-sex spaces Redefinition of sex as ‘biological sex’ in Equality Act would enable single-sex restrictions against trans people The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2023
UK Government considering changing legal definition of 'sex' in Equality Act THE UK Government could seek to change the legal definition of sex in the Equalities Act. The National (Scotland) · Apr 4, 2023
Pacific trade deal ‘will make mockery of UK’s climate ambitions’ CPTPP membership will result in more deforestation and endanger animal welfare, say campaigners The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2023
Pacific trade deal is more useful to Joe Biden than it is to the UK’s economy Hailed by Tory MPs as a Brexit benefit, CPTPP membership actually turns the UK into a willing pawn in Washington’s geopolitical game The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2023
'Significant concerns' over UK's Asia-Pacific trade deal, says Scottish Government THE Scottish Government has said it has “serious concerns” after the UK’s Asia-Pacific trade deal was confirmed. The National (Scotland) · Mar 31, 2023
Kemi Badenoch tells media to 'not keep talking' about Brexit in trade deal row KEMI Badenoch has urged the media to “not keep talking” about Brexit amid a row over a new trade deal that won’t compensate for losing… The National (Scotland) · Mar 31, 2023
Daily Mirror · Mar 31, 2023 Rishi Sunak warned UK-Pacific trade deal will 'undermine climate pledges' The UK has signed its biggest post-Brexit trade agreement, joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - but critics say the pact is worth only 0.08% of GDP
Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2023 OPINION - The Standard View: Justice finally catches up with Donald Trump Donald Trump’s presidency comprised a series of firsts: the occupant of the Oval Office without any prior military or government service. The first to be impeached twice. And last night, he made further history, becoming the first former US President to be criminally indicted.
Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2023 Forget Brexit pain and back our Pacific trade deal, urges minister Critics say the deal involving 11 countries including Australia, Canada and Japan doesn’t compensate for the blow of leaving the EU
The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2023 Kemi Badenoch casts doubt on growth projections for Asia-Pacific trade deal Comments threaten to worsen already tense relationship between senior ministers and civil servants
The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2023 Rishi Sunak sidesteps question about whether having private swimming pool means he’s out of touch – as it happened PM also refused to say what he would do if inquiry into Dominic Raab found justice secretary bullied officials
The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2023 UK joins Asia-Pacific CPTPP trade bloc that includes Japan and Australia Unions have condemned clauses in deal that will allow large firms to sue UK government behind closed doors
The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2023 Carol Vorderman ‘disgusted’ by ministers’ attitude to menopause TV personality clashes with women’s minister, who she says ‘couldn’t be bothered’ to attend committee session
The Independent UK · Mar 23, 2023 UK-India trade agreement is ‘about the deal and not the dates’, minister says Trade minister Nigel Huddleston told the Commons ‘we will not tie our hands in terms of setting an arbitrary deadline’.
Wales Online · Mar 22, 2023 Furious Carol Vorderman says Tory MPs 'don't give a stuff' about menopausal working women Former Countdown star Carol is a patron for campaign group Menopause Mandate
The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2023 Carol Vorderman ‘disgusted’ by women’s minister’s absence from menopause hearing The former Countdown star and patron of Menopause Mandate criticised both Women’s Minister Maria Caulfield and Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch.
Daily Mirror · Mar 22, 2023 Fuming Carol Vorderman says Tory MPs 'don't give a stuff' about menopausal working women Carol Vorderman called for the government to listen to menopausal women suffering in the workplace, and said ministers "don't give a stuff" after reading testimony from working women