内容摘要：Concerns have also been raised about some of the peers nominated by former prime ministers including Boris Johnson, notably Lord Lebedev.

Concerns have also been raised about some of the peers nominated by former prime ministers including Boris Johnson, notably Lord Lebedev.

bad couldn’t happen here.More than 3,000 high- and mid-rise buildings across England are still being monitored because they have unsafe cladding.

The recommendations made next week will attempt to ensure such a disaster can never happen again.As always the government will have no obligation to carry these out. Nor is there a formal process to monitor what they reject or why.It is another opportunity for change. One we may yet reflect on after future fires.

An independent inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who was poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury in 2018, has opened.It has heard evidence about links between her death and the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia earlier that year.

The UK security services blamed Russia for the attack and the inquiry will hear some highly classified evidence in private.

A murder inquiry was launched after Dawn Sturgess, 44, died from Novichok poisoning in Salisbury Hospital on 8 July 2018.Despite his party doing better under the current system than in previous elections, the Lib Dem leader Sir Ed said on Friday morning that he felt the British political system was “still broken” and would continue to support electoral reform.

Though this is the most extreme difference between vote and seat shares seen across the whole of the UK and in England for over a century, other nations of the UK have seen more extreme cases in recent history.In the 2015 general election, the Scottish National Party took half of the votes and 95% of the seats in Scotland - a gap of 45 points between the vote and seat share.

The highest gap recorded in Wales was in the 2001 general election when Labour won just under half of the votes and 85% of Welsh seats in Westminster.The Electoral Reform Society used more complex statistical scoring systems to compare the 2024 election result to others in UK history, but also concluded it was the most disproportionate on record.