Chancellor’s measures, including tax on oil and gas companies, criticised as too late and a ‘drop in the ocean’ Rishi Sunak bowed to months of pressure over the cost of living crisis with a £15bn package of support, part-funded by executing a remarkable U-turn to impose a windfall tax on […]
Month: May 2022
Boris Johnson’s allies rally to his defence as one former minister says he ‘will not defend the indefensible’ Four more Conservative MPs called for Boris Johnson to resign on Thursday over lockdown-breaking parties, as Downing Street sought to contain the political aftermath of the Sue Gray report. The prime minister’s […]
The girl told CNN that the shooter said he had bought bullets and appeared to spend his time alone The gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday allegedly sent a series of text messages to a 15-year-old girl in Germany moments before he carried […]
In commencement address New Zealand PM warns against the ‘scourge of online disinformation’, and wins standing ovation for crackdown on weapons Jacinda Ardern has spoken out against the online “scourge of disinformation” in an address at Harvard University, in which she also won standing ovations for her government’s gun control […]
Genivaldo de Jesus Santos dies of asphyxiation as video shows officers forcing him into vehicle then releasing gas grenade Brazilians have responded with outrage to the death of a mentally ill Black man who was bundled into the back of a police car by officers who then released a gas […]
PM says he takes full responsibility but insists it never occurred to him the gatherings he attended broke rules Boris Johnson has insisted he was oblivious to a culture of excessive drinking and partying in Downing Street during lockdown, despite a damning report laying bare a litany of rule-breaking behaviour […]
Many front pages take Boris Johnson to task for the lockdown-busting gatherings, but others try to draw a line under the affair The front pages of the British newspapers offer very contrasting shades of Gray in their handling of the report into the Partygate scandal and its implications for Boris […]
Many Conservative MPs frustrated with PM’s inability to strike right tone, but few speak publicly against him The plot against Boris Johnson could hardly be more different from the sound and fury that characterised the one against Theresa May, which took place in crammed and sweaty meeting rooms and with […]
Wine stains, puke and brawling at No 10 – none of the details in Sue Gray’s report are enough to flush out a PM devoid of shame Well, there we had it. It had been heavily briefed that Boris Johnson would be the model of remorse for his statement to […]
Families speak out after the attack: ‘I’ll never forget that smile’ Gunman sent private messages about attack on Facebook Beto O’Rourke confronts Abbott: ‘You are doing nothing’ ‘Just a loving little boy’: the victims of the Texas school shooting World reacts with horror and incomprehension to Texas shooting Why can’t […]