Party conference overshadowed by fears that refusing to do a U-turn on tax and spending cuts will kill off election chances Liz Truss is struggling to persuade Conservative MPs to back her controversial mini-budget, with some even threatening all-out rebellion amid fears that they will once again become known as […]
Year: 2022
Former CIA director and retired army general says Moscow’s leader is ‘desperate’ and ‘battlefield reality he faces is irreversible’ The US and its allies would destroy Russia’s troops and equipment in Ukraine – as well as sink its Black Sea fleet – if Russian president Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons […]
Latest updates: leftwing former president fails to secure majority of first-round votes ‘We want no more hatred’: leftwing ex-president Lula on verge of comeback Live results tracker A Lula victory would represent the latest in a series of triumphs for a resurgent Latin American left, following the election of leftist […]
Exclusive: Westminster gave exemption for Hinduja brothers’ Old War Office development in return for £10m payment The UK’s two richest people have been allowed to avoid planning rules that should have required them to build 98 affordable flats for key workers and low-income workers at their new £1.2bn luxury development […]
Drinks reception with wealthy Tory donors took place on same day the chancellor delivered mini-budget Pressure is growing on the Tory party to provide a full list of attendees at a private champagne reception attended by the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, hours after he delivered his mini-budget. Anneliese Dodds, the Labour […]
Conservative MPs urge Liz Truss’s removal from No 10 after poll reveals British public’s fury over tax plans Three-quarters of UK voters, including a staggering 71% of those who backed the Conservatives at the last general election, believe the prime minister, Liz Truss, and the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, have “lost […]
Prime minister reportedly raised objections to him going during personal audience at Buckingham Palace King Charles III has reportedly abandoned plans to attend and deliver a speech at the Cop27 climate change summit on the advice of Liz Truss. The monarch, a veteran campaigner on environmental issues, had been invited […]
Military defeat in Donetsk comes hours after Moscow declared that the region was Russian territory ‘for ever’ Russia-Ukraine war: latest developments Russia suffered a humiliating military defeat on Saturday when Ukrainian troops liberated the key eastern city of Lyman, with videos showing them raising a blue and yellow national flag […]
Violence erupted after Arema’s home loss to Persebaya Surabaya Police fired tear gas into crowded stands in Malang At least 129 people died and 180 were injured after violence and a stampede erupted following an Indonesian league football match, police have said. Supporters of the Javanese clubs Arema and Persebaya […]
Thomas Cashman, 34, also charged with attempted murder of Olivia’s mother, Cheryl Korbel, and Joseph Nee A 34-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, the girl shot dead in her own home in Liverpool, along with the attempted murder of her mother. Thomas Cashman, from the […]