Committee says too many black women receive treatment that falls short of acceptable standards Ministers have failed to tackle “appalling” and “glaring” racial disparities in maternal health despite repeated promises, MPs have said, as they called for new targets to eliminate inequalities. In a scathing report, the women and equalities […]
Month: April 2023
Investigation understood to be related to PM’s links to childcare firm in which his wife is an investor UK politics live – latest updates Rishi Sunak faces further questions over his family’s financial interests after a standards investigation was launched into a potential breach of transparency rules relating to his […]
First-round matches held up by graphic powder protest Government urged to ‘stop all new UK fossil fuel projects’ The World Snooker Championship is the latest high-profile sporting event to be disrupted by protestors after a Just Stop Oil activist poured a packet of orange powder paint over a table on […]
Cheddar and budget sausages sold by Asda were highest risers, with supermarkets’ prices for oats and skimmed milk also soaring The price of staple foods such as cheddar cheese, white bread and pork sausages has soared by up to 80% in some shops over the past year, in further evidence […]
Lindy Cameron speech expected to present the security threat posed by Beijing as an epoch-defining challenge to the west China poses an “epoch-defining” challenge to the west, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is reportedlyto warn. Lindy Cameron, who is the director of the GCHQ arm, will […]
Exclusive: child mental health crisis deepens with one-third of all referrals denied help A quarter of a million children in the UK with mental health problems have been denied help by the NHS as it struggles to manage surging case loads against a backdrop of a crisis in child mental […]
White Hart Inn in Grays, which has been the subject of a reported hate crime, daubed with graffiti and has windows damaged An Essex pub where police confiscated golly dolls has been vandalised with graffiti and damage to five windows occurring early on Sunday morning, police have said. The incident […]
Exclusive: experts say sensitive information could potentially have been harvested and used for targeted election interference The voting intentions of millions of Britons in local authority wards across the country could have been at risk of misuse as a result of a glitch in the Labour party’s main phone-banking system, […]
Violence between military factions that has left at least 56 dead in the capital spreads to other parts of country Civilians in Sudan have been subjected to a second day of heavy fighting, waking up in the capital, Khartoum, on Sunday to the sound of gunfire and military jets over […]
Rupert Murdoch’s channel sued for knowingly or recklessly broadcasting outlandish lies about voting equipment after Trump lost election The trial in the closely watched $1.6bn defamation lawsuit between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox will begin a day later than scheduled, the judge overseeing the case announced on Sunday evening, hours […]