The announcement of Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador ensures that 20 December 2024 will be recorded as a fateful day in Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership. Less remarked on, but relevant in hindsight, is a speech that the prime minister made earlier that month to launch a “plan for change”. Sir Keir set out ambitions to…
Shorouk Express After the UK government recently unveiled immigration plans inspired by another centre-left government in Copenhagen, The Local looks to Spain and considers how the hardline Danish model isn’t the only way to respond to Europe’s surge in anti-immigration sentiment. There are arguably only three centre-left governments left in western Europe: Denmark, Spain and…
Shorouk Express Spain’s minority government on Tuesday downplayed the loss of support of a Catalan separatist party which has heightened doubts about the fragile leftist coalition’s survival. Junts per Catalunya’s seven MPs proved decisive when their votes allowed Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to serve another term after inconclusive 2023 elections produced a hung parliament….
Shorouk Express But, he added: “The discussions we’ve had today, particularly the coalition of the willing, is on the basis that this is a plan that we will work with, with the U.S., and that it will have U.S. backing.” “That is the purpose of the plan and that is why I spoke to President…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email Labour’s “devastating” family farms tax means many won’t survive long enough to see ministers’ plans to help boost their profits, their union has warned….
