#house-of-lords-appointments

#house-of-lords-appointments

The government will introduce a bill with a so-called dynamic alignment mechanism that will allow the government to align UK standards as the EU evolves its own rules. This mechanism enables quick implementation of changes without the need for a new bill each time.

His decision to step down was prompted by what he described as the political and media frenzy surrounding the ban on Israeli fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv from their team's match with Aston Villa in Birmingham. Days earlier, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood publicly stated that she had lost confidence in Guildford's leadership after sustained political and media pressure; it was the first time in two decades a home secretary has done so.

A group of TDs is informally consulting with senior ministers, including Dara Calleary, Darragh O'Brien, and Jim O'Callaghan, regarding a potential no-confidence motion against Micheál Martin.

The Conservatives are calling for a proposed renovation of the Houses of Parliament to be paused and "refocused" over concerns about costs potentially running into the tens of billions. MPs have been presented with proposals to refurbish the ailing Palace of Westminster, including a plan that could cost almost 40bn and take 61 years to complete. The project team has warned delaying the restoration of the historic building, which costs 1.5m a week to maintain, would lead to "an expensive managed decline of the Palace".

James Evans has been removed from the shadow cabinet and had the whip withdrawn making him an independent, Tory Senedd leader Darren Millar has said. Millar said he did so on Tuesday morning "after being informed by James that he was continuing to engage with Reform representatives about the possibility of defecting to the party in spite of his personal assurances on Friday that he had rejected an approach they initiated last week".

I think that's a matter for the police. They will conduct their own investigations, but one of the core principles in our system is that everybody is equal under the law and nobody is above the law. It's a very important principle of our country... and it has to apply in this case in the same way it would in any other case.

No-one in this borough is more angry with this prime minister than me.

The committees not had a chance to reflect on these allegations because recess means Parliament isn't sitting this week. My task this week is to make sure that the committee's got options in front of them when they meet on Tuesday for how we might or might not take this investigation forward. Obviously, we can't and don't want to compromise a police investigation.

BBC Sir Keir Starmer believes Lord Mandelson should not be a member of the House of Lords, or use his title, Downing Street has said. The prime minister has ordered an "urgent" investigation into Lord Mandelson's contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while the peer was a government minister. The review comes after another tranche of documents were released, showing the former Labour minister's close relationship with Epstein.