Rishi Sunak reassures Tory MPs that spending enabled by stronger than expected recovery will not be repeated Analysis: Sunak offers spending now – and signals tax cuts later Budget 2021: key points at a glance Read all our budget coverage Rishi Sunak intends to cut taxes before the next general […]
Year: 2021
Protests and nightclub boycotts in more than 40 areas as police disclose 254 reports of spiking in two months Huge crowds of people across the UK took to the streets on Wednesday night, boycotting nightclubs in protests against a sharp rise in spiking cases. There were demonstrations in more than […]
Signatories include scientists from US, EU, India and African and South American countries Chief scientists and presidents of the national science academies of more than 20 countries including Sir Patrick Vallance have written to world leaders ahead of the Cop26 climate summit, urging them to set out policies to reduce […]
Tsai Ing-wen says self-ruled island is ‘on the front lines’ in the fight for democracy, while US president accuses China of undermining peace Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, has said the threat from China is growing “every day”, as US president Joe Biden criticised Beijing’s recent actions in the Taiwan Strait, […]
Two of the victims are in critical condition while the other two men have serious but not life-threatening injuries Five men have been arrested in Norwich after four men were found with stab wounds on Wednesday evening. The victims were all taken to the Norfolk and Norwich university hospital for […]
Report says countries must strengthen climate ambitions after wasting chance to build back better after Covid The world is squandering the opportunity to “build back better” from the Covid-19 pandemic, and faces disastrous temperature rises of at least 2.7C if countries fail to strengthen their climate pledges, according to a […]
The move by the Federal Communications Commission is the latest pushback against what the US sees as infiltration by Chinese tech firms The US communications regulator has voted to revoke China Telecom’s licence in America over national security concerns in the latest pushback by Washington against what it deems possible […]
Chancellor to strike upbeat tone despite cost-of-living crisis, with spending pledges worth billions Rishi Sunak will use his budget to insist the UK is entering an economic “age of optimism” despite a looming cost-of-living crisis, after making a deluge of promises to spend billions more on health, transport and skills. […]
Attorney says the deal can protect the prince against a lawsuit that claims that he assaulted Virginia Giuffre when she was 17 Prince Andrew’s lawyer has asked a New York judge to keep sealed a 2009 legal agreement that he says can protect the prince against a lawsuit’s claims that […]
Three former senior officers agree errors in search for missing women were due to biased policing Three former police chiefs have said errors made in the search for two missing sisters was the result of bias, as the murdered women’s mother dismissed as “hollow” an apology for the blunders. The […]