Health and social care committee says workforce strategy must be top priority for new prime minister The NHS is facing “the greatest workforce crisis” in its history which is putting patients at serious risk of harm, an influential group of MPs warns today. In its report, the cross-party Commons health […]
Month: July 2022
Leadership contender says he will close 30 Mandarin teaching programmes to restrain Beijing’s soft power China is the biggest long-term threat to Britain, Rishi Sunak will say on Monday as he unveils plans to curb the country’s soft power by closing all of its 30 Confucius Institutes, which promote the […]
Democracy figures, including a former lawmaker in Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, executed after being accused of carrying out ‘terror acts’ Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners, including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, state media said on Monday, in the country’s first use of capital punishment […]
Opposition leader to say ‘making the country and its people better off’ is main priority for party The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, will attempt to frame the next general election as a battle for the economy, declaring on Monday that a Labour government’s priorities would be “growth, growth and growth”. […]
Ukraine predicts it will recapture the southern region of Kherson by September; Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, embarks on a charm offensive in Africa Russia-Ukraine war: see all our coverage Ukraine predicts that it will recapture the southern region of Kherson by September. Sergiy Khlan, an aide to the head […]
Anger over lack of cash for Dover upgrade as Tory candidates vie to blame France for delays Long summer queues at the border risk becoming the “new normal” after Brexit, holidaymakers have been warned, as a fierce diplomatic row erupted with France over the lengthy tailbacks affecting Dover. Both Tory […]
Chris Patten, Norman Lamont and Malcolm Rifkind warn former PM would never have approved borrowing to fund £30bn cuts Tory grandees who served in Margaret Thatcher’s final cabinet have warned that the former prime minister would never have approved of Liz Truss’s plan to slash £30bn off taxes funded by […]
Declaration is strongest call to action agency can make, with most recent such announcement being for Covid The global monkeypox outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) – the strongest call to action the agency can make. It is the […]
Fears over financing, security and staffing threaten to take the shine off a showcase event and a national triumph for Emmanuel Macron’s presidency Two years almost to the day before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, organisers are reportedly “in a cold sweat” over security, financial, venue and staffing […]
Tory leadership candidate’s pledge follows favourite Liz Truss’s claim she would extend Rwanda scheme Rishi Sunak, who is battling with Liz Truss to win the backing of the Conservative grassroots in his attempt to replace Boris Johnson, has announced plans for an annual cap on the number of refugees the […]