Chancellor concedes only 20% of transport funding boost is new and other commitments in £26bn spending plans are recycled Labour has accused Rishi Sunak of presiding over a “smoke and mirrors” budget after he conceded that just 20% of his biggest single spending commitment unveiled before the speech is made […]
Month: October 2021
Cabinet Office denies it is blocking freedom of information requests despite ‘downward’ trend The UK government has been accused of waging a secret war against transparency, using an array of tactics to block the release of information to the public. In a report published on Monday, the investigative journalism website […]
Exclusive: UK’s most senior gynaecologist is latest clinician to raise alarm about mounting Covid pressures Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The NHS could soon be unable to deliver “the care it needs to” for women giving birth if the surge in Covid cases continues, the president […]
Despite pushing ahead with dozens of new coal power plants, China has a new plan to increase wind and solar power in its march towards carbon neutrality China is targeting a clean energy goal of reducing fossil fuel use to below 20% by 2060, according to an official plan published […]
Richard Ratcliffe seeks to persuade Foreign Office to do more to secure wife’s release from prison in Iran The husband of the jailed British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has gone on hunger strike for a second time in an attempt to persuade the UK foreign secretary to do more to […]
The woman whose revelations have rocked Facebook tells how spending time with her mother, a priest, motivated her to speak out This was not Frances Haugen’s plan A. The Facebook whistleblower says she does not like being the centre of attention, but what she saw while working at Mark Zuckerberg’s […]
Rishi Sunak urged to make help for lower-income families a higher priority and to beware ‘Treasury orthodoxy’ Rishi Sunak is being warned by senior Tories not to allow “Treasury orthodoxy” to choke off critical funding this winter, with Conservatives demanding action in the budget over energy bills, criminal justice and […]
Councils consulted over support for measures such as vaccine passports amid warnings by senior doctors that NHS faces winter illness ‘triple whammy’ • Coronavirus – latest updates • See all our coronavirus coverage New evidence has emerged that the government is paving the way to implement “plan B” measures in […]
Text message warning of ‘super-unsafe’ conditions was later followed by a walkout by camera operators A picture of chaos and concern on the set of Alec Baldwin’s new western, Rust, has emerged from fresh accounts of the lead-up to the fatal shooting during filming on Thursday. Only days into the […]
Fans attacked Premier League approval of Newcastle takeover Police responding to complaint that the banner was ‘offensive’ Police are carrying out inquiries into a banner unveiled by Crystal Palace fans before Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Newcastle. The banner, depicting an image of the club’s new Saudi Arabian owners, PIF, about […]