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The Latest Breaking News from Esther McVey

£26 billion national insurance ‘grab’ could dent police front line, warns MP

Esther McVey accused the Government of ‘financial illiteracy’, ahead of a change to employers’ national insurance contribution rates.

Evening Standard

Labour minister defends migrant raid videos after being accused of trying to mimic Reform

Dame Angela Eagle said the government is simply ‘enforcing the rules’ by publishing videos of immigration raids targeting illegal workers

The Independent UK

Reporting of vaccine side-effects should be mandatory – Tory former minister

Esther McVey said there was a ‘gross underreporting’ of unintended impacts of vaccines to the medicines regulator.

The Independent UK

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GB News overtakes rival Sky in latest live viewing figures, data shows

Rightwing broadcaster’s ratings surge in month featuring farmers’ protest in London and Trump re-election in US

The Guardian - UK

GB News fined £100,000 by Ofcom for breaking impartiality rules over Rishi Sunak interview

Ofcom says broadcaster gave Rishi Sunak a ‘mostly uncontested platform’ in February interview

The Independent UK

GB News fined £100,000 by Ofcom after Rishi Sunak Q and A debate

The channel’s chief executive, Angelos Frangopoulos, said the ‘unnecessary, unfair and unlawful’ ruling is being challenged in the courts.

The Independent UK

Esther McVey doubles down on ‘repugnant’ Holocaust smoking ban comparison

The former common sense minister has refused to back down over a Tweet which appeard to compare the smoking ban to the Holocaust

The Independent UK

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Margaret Thatcher portrait will stay on display in No10, minister says after backlash

Sir Keir Starmer is reported to have found one portrait of his Tory predecessor ‘unsettling’ and wanted it to be moved

Evening Standard

Government seeking to make ‘fewer places where you can smoke’ – as it happened

Jacqui Smith says Labour hopes to ‘make it much more likely’ that smokers will want to give up

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP told to ‘get a grip’ for using Holocaust poem to criticise smoking ban

Esther McVey used poem about complicity with the Nazis to criticise Labour’s proposals about smoking in beer gardens

The Guardian - UK

Jewish leaders hit out at Tory MP’s ‘repugnant’ use of Holocaust to criticise smoking ban

Ex-common sense minister defends her ‘analogy’ as she rejects criticism as ‘politically correct bullying’

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage revealed to be highest paid MP

The Reform UK MP’s register of interests shows he is paid £97,928.40 a month by the broadcaster, for 32 hours of work.

Evening Standard

Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – manifesto for a better politics speaks plainly but falls flat

The fourth book from the admirable Labour MP is part memoir, part rallying cry – but it feels a bit rushed and too familiar

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage to restart GB News show next week after election win

The Reform UK leader will return to the channel next week and present a show three times a week

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Students going home could put 35 Tory seats at risk in election, analysis says

Higher Education Policy Institute research suggests that holding ballot in summer break may be strategic error

Evening Standard

NHS staff will be banned from showing Palestinian flag, says Health Secretary

Cabinet minister says move will help Jewish people feel safer at work

The Independent UK

Minister warned Sunak it was not common sense to have a snap election

Exclusive: Details are emerging of the final cabinet meeting when Rishi Sunak told his top team he had called a snap election

The Guardian - UK

Starmer takes it step by step in the phoney war that is a general election campaign

With no date in sight, the waiting game drags on. So Labour spells out the message again, and again

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The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak REFUSES to apologise for 'comparing Yessers with Putin'

RISHI Sunak called the SNP “a threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom” as he refused to apologise for comparing Yessers with extremists…

The Guardian - UK

Can the civil service survive the chaos and incompetence of Team Sunak? Of course we can: we’re optimists

As this difficult era nears its endgame, we are guided by a belief good governance – and buoyed up by public support, says the secret civil servant

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer averts row with union leaders as Labour reiterates ‘full commitment’ to new deal for working people – as it happened

Both sides issue joint statement expressing ‘full commitment’ to the new deal for working people as agreed in July’ after a meeting this afternoon

Evening Standard

Rainbow lanyards don't bother me, Grant Shapps says after 'common sense minister' urges crackdown

PM’s spokesman denies any rift after Esther McVey equated gay rights with political activism

The Guardian - UK

Esther McVey planning crackdown on civil service diversity initiatives

So-called minister for common sense says she wants to ban wearing of rainbow lanyards among other measures

The Guardian - UK

GB News’s highest-paid Tory MPs – and how much they have received

What the channel has paid the likes of Lee Anderson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Esther McVey and what it has got for its money

Evening Standard

Arise Sir Alan Bates? Post Office scandal campaigner should receive knighthood, says Cabinet minister

Esther McVey, who is known as the 'Minister for Common Sense', said he should be given the honour 'as soon as possible'

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