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Liz Truss’s Cabinet in full

The new Prime Minister held her first meeting of the Cabinet on Wednesday morning.

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2022

Interim compensation payments of at least £100,000 should be paid to contaminated blood victims 'without delay'

The Government has been told to pay interim compensation to victims of the contaminated blood scandal "without delay" by Sir Brian Langstaff.

Chronicle Live · Jul 29, 2022

Dusting Off Our Dusty Old Industrial Policy*

Episode 418 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason · Jul 26, 2022

Change of PM could 'help ease tensions between UK and EU over Northern Ireland'

Justice Committee chairman Sir Robert Neill criticised sweeping ministerial powers in the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill as he lodged amendments

The National (Scotland) · Jul 13, 2022

Payoffs to ex ministers worth up to £250k with one in post just 36 hours

Michelle Donelan will receive a three-month severance payment worth almost £17,000 despite being education secretary for less than two days before handing in her resignation

Daily Mirror · Jul 8, 2022

Minister claims the 'business of Government continues' despite mass resignations

There are now a number of Government departments without any ministerial oversight.

Chronicle Live · Jul 7, 2022

Westminster isn't functioning so why not just give us a Section 30, SNP MP says

THE SNP have suggested that the UK Government sign over powers to a “fully functioning” government in Holyrood, after dozens of Westminster…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 7, 2022

‘I’ll lose my seat anyway’: from cabinet to backbenches, how Johnson’s support ebbed away

Over the last few days, ministers have tired of defending PM over Pincher while even MPs in safe seats feel doomed

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2022

Peers laugh as government’s statement on standards in public life read in House of Lords

Lord True smirked as he read the statement to the chamber

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2022

The Guardian view on the cabinet resignations: endgame for Boris Johnson

Editorial: The departure of Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid should herald the end of a discredited premiership

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2022