Close contacts of those infected with rare disease offered vaccines and told to isolate for up to 21 days Public health officials are to announce more UK monkeypox cases on Monday, as efforts ramp up to contain the first multinational outbreak of the virus that has led to cases in […]
Month: May 2022
Ministers remain unable to decide on ways to help as energy firm boss warns soon 40% could be in fuel poverty Boris Johnson hopes to blunt calls for urgent action on the cost of living crisis by stressing that work is the best route out of poverty, as an energy […]
Experts say many others are denied help, and ‘relentless’ rise in demand could overwhelm NHS Analysis: evidence of a crisis is stark A child psychiatrist on leaving CAMHS More than 400,000 children and young people a month are being treated for mental health problems – the highest number on record […]
Hotline was expected to handle 3,000 calls a week, but took fewer than that in five months Labour has accused the government of an obscene waste of money, after it emerged that an export hotline set up to help businesses took fewer than 3,000 calls in its first five months […]
While elite gather in Davos, charity calls for wealth tax after rich benefit from soaring energy and food prices The fortunes of food and energy billionaires have grown by $453bn over the past two years owing to soaring energy and commodity prices during the pandemic and Vladimir Putin’s war in […]
Civil service head will carry the can, amid row over claims that No 10 tried to interfere with Sue Gray’s findings Boris Johnson is expected to scapegoat the head of the civil service Simon Case this week in a desperate effort to save his own job, as both men face […]
The range and number of cases has puzzled doctors, who are asking why the virus has spread to the west Scientists have warned that they expect monkeypox cases to continue to rise this week as more infected people are traced by health authorities. More than 90 cases have already been […]
Anthony Albanese’s Labor party defeats the ruling Coalition, but may lack the numbers to form majority government Election 2022 results: LIVE votes tracker, federal seat counts Federal election seat counts: what we know so far Full coverage; Seat explorer; Election promises tracker Get our free news app; get our morning […]
With the poorest disproportionately hit by the cost of living crisis, senior Tories are demanding emergency action from Treasury The gap in the inflation rates experienced by the richest and poorest households in the UK is at its highest level for 16 years – another sign that the cost of […]
‘We do not make policy through mob rule,’ home secretary will say as she urges MPs to back bill that criminalises obstructing traffic Priti Patel will tell MPs that “we do not make policy through mob rule in this country” as she urges them to give their support to the […]