Honorary president of the former Brexit party to make eighth attempt to enter parliament The Conservative party’s faltering general election campaign suffered a potentially damaging blow when Nigel Farage announced he intended to stand as an MP and lead the Reform party for the next five years. The former Ukip […]
Month: June 2024
The new vaccine approach will help improve survival rates for ‘the next decades and more’, says Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician The world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma halves the risk of patients dying or the disease returning, according to trial results that doctors described as “extremely impressive”. […]
Comment made despite signs of division in Israeli war cabinet and Netanyahu appearing to challenge the deal The White House insisted that the “ball was in Hamas’s court” on whether to accept a new Gaza peace proposal, despite mixed signals from Benjamin Netanyahu reflecting turmoil within his governing coalition in […]
Cecil Farley says implant, which could become standard treatment, means he can still see his wife of 63 years A 91-year-old man who became the first patient in England to have his sight saved by an artificial layer in his cornea has praised the procedure for allowing him to still […]
Vote counting begins in biggest elections in the world, with one billion voters eligible to cast their ballots Exit polls show Narendra Modi expected to win historic third term Before counting even began the BJP had won one seat, in the constituency of Surat, where Mukesh Dalal, from the ruling […]
Keir Starmer aims to turn spotlight on Sunak’s career before politics in lead up to first general election TV debate Rishi Sunak must face questions about the fortune he earned at a hedge fund which engineered a deal at the heart of the financial crash, Labour has said, as it […]
Exclusive: Ukrainian leader says bad peace deal in event of Trump victory would mean end of US as global ‘player’ Donald Trump risks being a “loser president” if he wins November’s election and imposes a bad peace deal on Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said, saying it would mean the end […]
Exclusive: Experts raise alarm over ‘national scandal’ that has hallmarks of trafficking and modern slavery ‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain What are the problems with the UK visa system for care work? British social care agencies have been […]
Friendship with Kevin Sinfield brought MND to wider attention Former rugby league player had become ill in the past week Rob Burrow, the former rugby league player who came to national attention after his diagnosis with motor neurone disease, has died at the age of 41 following a short illness. […]
Study also finds people from ethnic minorities with atrial fibrillation more than twice as likely to die than white patients Minority ethnic patients with heart failure are more than a third more likely to die than their white counterparts, according to research. The study, by researchers at the University of […]