Sunak braces for backlash as smoking ban bill to be introduced in Commons | Smoking
Rishi Sunak’s public health plan to ban future generations from buying cigarettes is due to be introduced in parliament this week, with officials bracing for a backlash from Tory rebels. The policy has considerable support among Conservative voters, but the scale of the expected uprising by the Liberal Conservative Party, which includes Liz Truss, is […]
MP calls for NCA to consider dealings of Tory donor Mohamed Amersi | House of Commons
Former cabinet minister David Davis has called on the National Crime Agency to review Conservative Party donor Mohamed Amersi’s past business dealings, telling parliament the businessman “facilitated corrupt dealings”. . Davis created a series of serious allegations It claimed that Mr Amersi, who is under parliamentary privilege, had abused the legal system to bring a […]
How a ceasefire vote led to two days of chaos in the Commons | News
There is no more serious topic than this. MPs had been urged by the SNP to vote in favor of a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict. But despite the urgency of the issue, parliament descended into debate and fury, with SNP and Conservative politicians walking out en masse. The SNP had tabled a motion that […]
German space commander warns Russian nuclear weapon could destroy ‘global commons’: ‘Nobody would survive’
The head of Germany’s Space Forces, Major General Michael Traut, said that if a Russian nuclear weapon were to explode in orbit, it could permanently destroy “the global commons.” Speaking at an event on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday night, Trout said he had no answer for U.S. intelligence reports that […]