Labour Budget Strains Wokingham Charities Tuesday, 5 November, 2024 by Cllr George Evans The recent Labour budget has introduced significant financial pressures for Wokingham’s charity sector, which plays a crucial role in supporting our community’s most vulnerable residents. Local charities, which already operate on lean budgets, are now grappling with the increased costs from national insurance contributions and the minimum wage hike. These changes place an... Local News
What is the cost of large scale migration? 12th December 2023 The EU are locked in long and acrimonious talks over EU plans to take over more the tasks of running migration policy at EU level. The EU is wanting burden... Westminster News
The Rwanda Plan meets political reality 11th December 2023 Today a large number of Conservative MPs will be mulling over the legal advice and predictions for Mr Sunak's Rwanda scheme. Five of the Conservative groups who... Westminster News
The policy options on migration 10th December 2023 The PM has to consider what to do with the draft Bill in the light of reactions to it and the Parliamentary arithmetic I set out yesterday. There is no point in... Westminster News
The government needs to work out the costs of providing for migrants 8th December 2023 Now the government wants to control legal migration it needs to calculate the costs of new legal migrants into low paid jobs to taxpayers. The government now we... Westminster News
Getting us back on track – Facts4EU 8th December 2023 The John Redwood Interview - Getting us back on track John summarises the economic benefits of Brexit and what can now be seized, given political will. 10... Articles
We’ve heard promises, let’s see the delivery 7th December 2023 This year, the future of St Crispin’s Leisure Centre has been in doubt, after the Liberal Democrat administration put out a consultation on whether it should... Local News
Losing a Home Secretary and an Immigration Minister is careless 7th December 2023 Robert Jenrick did not come to his conclusions on immigration through ideology. Asked to be Immigration Minister he approached it cautiously. He formed his view... Westminster News
John Redwood's Intervention in the Ministerial Statement on Legal Migration 6th December 2023 John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): We eased the driver shortage by training more people at home and paying them more. Is that not the right model for the scarcity... Westminster News
Rwanda Treaty – statement by UK government 6th December 2023 The UK government made the following statement yesterday: " Home Secretary James Cleverly has signed a joint Treaty with his counterpart, Foreign Minister, Dr... Westminster News
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