Plan includes funding for universal preschool, free college and childcare State of the union style speech to tout his accomplishments Includes an appeal to working-class voters on economic recovery plans White House announces sweeping plan for childcare and pre-school 3.51am BST Scott, who has just wrapped up his speech, offered […]
Year: 2021
Steepest decline in wellbeing came among those newly reliant on universal credit and self-employment grants, UK survey finds Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Previously comfortably-off people who suffered sudden and massive drops in household income during the pandemic crisis recorded the sharpest increases in mental illness, […]
Foster says she will stand aside as DUP leader on 28 May and as first minister a month later Arlene Foster has announced she is stepping down as leader of the Democratic Unionist party and Northern Ireland’s first minister after a sudden internal party revolt. Foster issued a statement on […]
Johnson faces growing disquiet after allegations he was loaned £58,000 from party funds while being seen to personally foot the bill Boris Johnson is being urged by senior Tories to come clean about the funding of his flat refurbishment as it emerged that a former Labour chancellor refused to join […]
Union body says 15,000 people of working age have died from Covid in England and Wales Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Trades Union Congress is calling for an immediate public inquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic, insisting it should examine whether workers were […]
Government defeats amendment aiming to stop fire safety costs being passed on to leaseholders, but Lords vote means new Commons showdown Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders living in unsellable and potentially dangerous high-rise homes will continue to face fire safety bills of up to £100,000 each after MPs again voted […]
Ressa has been subject to sustained campaign of gendered online abuse and has been targeted by Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte The UN’s cultural agency has awarded its annual press freedom prize to Philippine journalist Maria Ressa whose reporting has made her a target of her country’s judiciary and online hate […]
Several Northern Ireland assembly members sign letter calling for leadership contest Arlene Foster is facing a revolt from Democratic Unionist party (DUP) members that threatens to topple her as party leader and first minister of Northern Ireland. Multiple DUP assembly members signed a letter on Tuesday calling for an unprecedented […]
Tory sources have lent weight to claim PM said he’d prefer thousands of deaths to another lockdown Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson faced mounting pressure on Monday night as Conservative insiders added weight to claims that the prime minister said he would rather see […]
Officials ‘surprised and puzzled’ by lack of paperwork for failed banker at centre of lobbying scandal A failed financier at the centre of a Downing Street lobbying scandal had no contract to work for the government despite spending years inside No 10 under David Cameron, a committee of MPs has […]