Exclusive: chancellor criticised by former Tory international development secretaries for planned use of $27.4bn windfall Rishi Sunak is to save billions of pounds by counting as aid financial assistance to poor countries being provided as a result of a windfall Britain has received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In […]
Month: October 2021
Chronic underfunding, Covid and staff shortages blamed for increase in physical and verbal assaults NHS staff across the UK are facing a “growing tide of abuse” including assaults from patients, which they say is being caused by frustration at long waits for care. In a strongly worded joint statement, which […]
Officers made decision after reportedly talking to Giuffre and a review of documents The Metropolitan police are taking no further action after a review prompted by Virginia Giuffre, who is taking legal action against Prince Andrew. Met officers made the decision to drop their investigation on Sunday, after reviewing several […]
Exclusive: research reveals harmful stereotypes still hindering girls, boys and their parents Lego has announced it will work to remove gender stereotypes from its toys after a global survey the company commissioned found attitudes to play and future careers remain unequal and restrictive. Researchers found that while girls were becoming […]
Letter from 2019 reveals business secretary supported £1.2bn project linked to Conservative donor A cabinet minister has been accused of making misleading claims about a £1.2bn cable project linked to a Conservative donor. Almost one in 10 Conservative MPs had taken money from firms linked to Viktor Fedotov, revealed in […]
Lack of EU staff adding to shortages: ‘There aren’t enough to deliver care we need’ Ministers are being warned of a mounting workforce crisis in England’s hospitals as they struggle to recruit staff for tens of thousands of nursing vacancies, with one in five nursing posts on some wards now […]
Coalition partner, the Green party, demanded Kurz go after prosecutors announced investigation The Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, said on Saturday that he plans to step down in an effort to defuse a government crisis triggered by prosecutors’ announcement that he is a target of a corruption investigation. Kurz, 35, said […]
Home Office fears PM views aggressive targeting of women and girls as ‘mere wolf whistling’ amid moves to create specific offence Boris Johnson has infuriated the home secretary by overruling attempts to make public sexual harassment a crime. This has prompted concern at the Home Office that the prime minister […]
Shortages of material, labour and drivers put the party’s mid-2020 target in serious jeopardy, say analysts Boris Johnson’s election pledge to build 300,000 new houses a year is in serious jeopardy in the face of labour and material shortages that are causing major disruption across the economy, industry figures have […]
EU leaders urged to push back against No 10’s brinkmanship over role of European Court of Justice Fears that the UK is heading for a trade war with the EU have been fuelled by strong indications from the government that proposals to be unveiled in Brussels on Wednesday over Brexit […]