Starmer rebuffs renewed talk of Andy Burnham leadership challenge

Labour accused of delaying new rules to avoid backlash, after leak of EHRC guidance saying trans people could be questioned based on looks The UK government has insisted it will take as much time as necessary to “get right” new rules on access to single-sex spaces after a leak of guidance submitted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) raised concerns that its publication was being deliberately delayed. The equalities watchdog submitted its formal guidance on how public bodies, businesses and other service providers should respond to April’s landmark supreme court ruling on biological sex to the UK…

Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response Dominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s No 10, Covid inquiry finds “Too little too late” is the key finding of Heather Hallett’s second report from the Covid public inquiry, which focused on politicians and the decisions they made at important points during the pandemic. At 760 pages long, there is no shortage of detail on exactly what went wrong and when in the UK during those tumultuous months in 2020 and 2021,…

Chancellor is expected to increase duties bookies and casinos pay, ending months of speculation and lobbying Gambling companies don’t lose very often but nor are they usually playing a game of poker against the chancellor of the exchequer. At next week’s budget, Rachel Reeves is widely expected to announce an increase in the duties that bookies and casinos pay to the Treasury, ending months of speculation and frenzied lobbying designed to sway the government. Continue reading… Source link