Louie French becomes MP for the suburban London seat, after a vote that saw the Tories’ majority of nearly 19,000 slashed to just 4,478 The Conservatives have held the safe seat of Old Bexley and Sidcup in the first in a series of closely watched parliamentary byelections. Louie French was […]
Month: December 2021
Exclusive: Mone is alleged to have called man of Indian heritage ‘a waste of a man’s white skin’ in WhatsApp exchange The Conservative peer Michelle Mone has been accused of sending a racist message to a man of Indian heritage who alleged in an official complaint that she told him […]
Jabs offer far higher protection than that needed to prevent hospitalisation and death, Cov-Boost trial lead says Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Covid booster shots can dramatically strengthen the body’s immune defences, according to a study that raises hopes of preventing another wave of severe disease […]
Exclusive: Sharon Graham, Unite’s boss, believes money would be better spent on union campaigns Unite will use ‘brains as well as brawn’ to fight bad employers, says boss Labour’s biggest funder, Unite, will cut political donations to the party and divert the money to union campaigns, its new general secretary, […]
Member for Barking since 1994 also chaired the public accounts committee and criticised ex-leader over antisemitism in the party Margaret Hodge, the veteran Labour MP and former chair of the public accounts committee, has announced she will not stand again for parliament at the next election. Following a career in […]
Extra Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna jabs for 2022 and 2023 ordered to ‘future proof’ vaccine programme Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers in the UK have secured new contracts to buy 114m more Covid-19 vaccines for the next two years. The deals, for 2022 and 2023, were […]
Home Office acknowledges people involved in tragedy may have tried to call for help as investigations continue The occupants of a boat that sank last week in the Channel causing the deaths of at least 27 people may have tried to contact the UK authorities, the Home Office has acknowledged. […]
Case poses a direct threat to the legal underpinnings of the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion Conservative justices in the US supreme court have signaled their support for curbing abortion access during oral arguments in the most important reproductive rights case in […]
Conversation broke little new ground as ex-president hinted that he might run for president again Donald Trump attacked Boris Johnson’s plans for clean power, slammed the Duchess of Sussex as “disrespectful”, and voiced a litany of old grievances during a freewheeling interview with UK politician-turned-broadcaster Nigel Farage aired on British […]
Exclusive: news of 3.8% rise delayed over reaction to downgraded rail investment in the north, leak shows An announcement that rail fares will rise by 3.8% in March was postponed by ministers last week after the furious backlash over downgraded government plans for rail investment in the north. The fare […]