Exclusive: Tory leadership frontrunner suggested Britons lacked ‘skill and application’, in echo of ‘idlers’ row Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal. In […]
Month: August 2022
Ministers accepted urgency of need of those infected in 1970s and 1980s, who are dying at the rate of one every four days ‘My family was destroyed’: relatives of blood scandal victims get nothing Survivors of the contaminated blood scandal have been awarded interim government payments after a 40-year battle, […]
The vice-chair of the House January 6 panel faced retribution from state voters for going against the former president Liz Cheney has paid the price for her staunch opposition to Donald Trump’s assault on US democracy by losing her seat in Congress to a challenger backed by the former president. […]
Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissidents […]
Train driver was in process of reversing train out of danger when panicked passengers broke the windows to escape As many as 20 passengers have suffered burns, three of them seriously, after they jumped from a train when it was engulfed by a forest fire near Castellón in north-east Spain. […]
Exclusive: Unions warn proposal to reduce payouts by a quarter as headcount shrinks could lead to industrial action Ministers are planning to reduce redundancy pay for civil servants while cutting 91,000 Whitehall jobs, setting up a bitter confrontation that unions warned may lead to legal and industrial action. The proposals […]
Unsealing the document could reveal the scope of the inquiry against Donald Trump, whose team is rattled by recent events The US Justice Department has asked a judge not to release the affidavit that gave the FBI probable cause to search Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, worsening distrust among top aides […]
Investment is needed to help country recover from drought, say politicians and campaigners What are UK water company chief executives paid? Water company bosses should be stripped of their multimillion-pound bonuses until they fix leaks and build reservoirs, politicians and campaigners have said as the country is gripped by drought. […]
PM believed to be in Greece on second summer break in three weeks amid ‘zombie’ government accusations Politics live: latest updates Downing Street has admitted that Boris Johnson will not be working on his holiday unless he is needed urgently, after he faced criticism for taking a second break abroad […]
Supermarket Iceland is part of scheme to offer sums of £25 to £100 to buy everyday items A zero-interest loans scheme aimed at helping thousands of people who are struggling to put food on the table is being rolled out across the UK. The initiative, the result of a link-up […]