The chancellor Rishi Sunak has put off the three-year Comprehensive Spending Review – CSR – in favour of announcing his fourth package of support measures to mitigate Britain’s Covid-19 epidemic. It is certain that this will not to be the last Covid bail out, yet the announcement that the CSR was to be postponed caught cabinet colleagues on the hop – not least the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.
Starmer under pressure over two child cap
Keir Starmer is punishing Labour rebels for supporting a policy that was one of his own leadership pledges.
