Exclusive: Solicitors for Labour have written to Cressida Dick suggesting force is ‘duty-bound’ to launch inquiry What do we know about Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat renovation? Scotland Yard is considering whether to investigate Boris Johnson over the funding of his Downing Street flat renovation after Labour’s lawyers claimed there […]
Month: February 2022
Foreign secretary told MPs laws would be in place by 10 February but nothing has been put to parliament The British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, will meet her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Thursday with her plan to have put the UK’s “toughest sanctions regime against Russia” on the statute […]
Public spending will rise by £76bn a year, requiring income and wealth to be taxed more efficiently and fairly Wealth taxes will be needed to fund a £76bn a year increase in government spending by the end of the decade, caused by an ageing population and more expensive healthcare, a […]
Science Museum hopes fellow travellers of the late cosmologist will join visitors to display of his office miscellany Having devoted his life to the conundrums of the cosmos, Prof Stephen Hawking has left behind a mystery of his own amid the eclectic contents of his former office. The Cambridge cosmologist, […]
The US agency says Elon Musk’s expansion could flood Earth’s orbit with objects, making flights and observations more difficult Nasa has raised concerns about SpaceX’s plan to deploy about 30,000 satellites for its Starlink, as have some major companies. Elon Musk’s SpaceX previously received authorisation for about 12,000 satellites to […]
More than half members of Net Zero Scrutiny Group were also in group that promoted Brexit vote, as fears grow for UK’s green agenda ‘It’s all a bit cynical’: the politicians behind the Tory attack on net zero agenda A group of Conservative politicians and their allies are on the […]
Border checks said to have increased business costs and ‘suppressed’ trade, and the situation could worsen Brexit red tape has damaged Britain’s trade with the EU and the situation could worsen unless the government works with Brussels to reduce hold-ups at UK ports, parliament’s spending watchdog has said. Only hours […]
Boris Johnson’s communications chief was director of Hydro Industries when he visited No 10 Boris Johnson is facing questions over his support for a company that employed Guto Harri, his new communications chief, after it emerged the firm signed a £150m deal in Downing Street with the endorsement of the […]
In the first Brits ceremony to do away with gendered categories, women or female-fronted acts won 10 out of 15 overall awards Adele was the runaway winner at this year’s female-dominated Brit awards, taking home the prizes for artist of the year, album of the year for her fourth record, […]
Online sexual abuse of young women having ‘devastating impact’, says charity that commissioned research More than a fifth of girls and young women in the UK have been ‘“cyber-flashed” in the last year and a similar number have faced sexual harassment, according to a study exposing endemic internet sexual abuse. […]