Home secretary makes decision on same day Hewlett-Packard wins six-year civil fraud case against UK citizen The home secretary, Priti Patel, has approved the extradition of Mike Lynch, the tech entrepreneur once hailed as Britain’s answer to Bill Gates, to the US to answer criminal fraud charges. On Friday night, […]
Year: 2022
Comedian tweeting fake version of civil servant’s ‘partygate’ report purportedly caused panic in No 10 Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The comedian Joe Lycett, who apparently caused chaos and “mass panic” in government when he tweeted a fake version of Sue Gray’s “partygate” report, has said […]
Embattled PM may scrap policy to win support of rightwing Tory MPs and save his job over alleged lockdown parties The Treasury is becoming increasingly alarmed that Boris Johnson may be preparing to scrap the national insurance rise in a desperate attempt to placate rightwing Tory MPs as he fights […]
Sault co-founder, who has worked with Adele and Little Simz, thanks ‘all the Black producers before me – I am you’ Inflo, the genre-straddling producer known for work with Adele, Little Simz and Michael Kiwanuka, has been announced as producer of the year in 2022’s Brit awards. It is the […]
Cabinet Office officials wrangle over final version of Sue Gray’s findings on alleged Covid rule-breaking parties Boris Johnson has been told it is “time for the truth to be released” as he faced more calls to publish a long-awaited report into “partygate” in full and not “suppress crucial details”. Officials […]
Updates from the second day at Manuka Oval in Canberra The Spin: subscribe to our weekly cricket newsletter Any thoughts? Email Geoff or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 101st over: Australia 331-8 (Jonassen 2, King 1) Alana King on Test debut comes to the middle, and immediately gets an immaculate outswinger that she […]
Family of Agnieszka T say they want to ‘save other women in Poland from a similar fate’, as case met with anger over restrictive termination laws Polish state has ‘blood on its hands’ after death of woman refused an abortion Protests are under way across Poland after the death of […]
Senior backbenchers to move as a collective to force no-confidence vote A new raft of Conservative MPs are poised to send letters of no confidence in Boris Johnson when the long-awaited “partygate” report is published, as the prime minister was pressured by his supporters to oversee a complete clearout of […]
Jobseekers will have just four weeks to find employment in their preferred sector under the government’s Way to Work campaign Unemployed workers will be forced to take up a job in any sector or face swift financial sanctions under a crackdown designed to fill hundreds of thousands of vacancies in […]
Reinforcements sought for Nato’s eastern flank as Russian forces mass on Ukrainian border Britain and other Nato allies are considering a request from the US to deploy hundreds more troops to support member countries in eastern Europe in advance of any Russian invasion or attack on Ukraine. UK defence sources […]