Prime minister accused of ‘another screeching U-turn’ having previously rejected calls to impose levy Renewable power companies will have their revenues capped in England and Wales, after the government bowed to pressure to clamp down on runaway profits. The announcement late on Tuesday night provoked immediate accusations that Downing Street […]
Lansbury won an Oscar nomination for her first role in the 1944 film Gaslight, and gained international acclaim as Murder, She Wrote’s Jessica Fletcher • Angela Lansbury: the sweet, scene-stealing grande dame of our screens for 75 years The actor Angela Lansbury, best known as Jessica Fletcher in the TV […]
Sterling falls more than a cent to below $1.10 after Andrew Bailey tells pension firms they have ‘got to get this done’ The pound has fallen sharply against the dollar after Andrew Bailey warned the Bank of England would not extend its emergency intervention in financial markets beyond this week, […]
IFS says Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget will leave ministers making serious reductions in public services Kwasi Kwarteng will need to find £60bn of savings by 2026 to fill the gap left by unfunded tax cuts and the costs of extra borrowing triggered by a panicked reaction on international money markets to […]
Kyiv presses military and diplomatic wishlist as French president sees ‘profound change in nature of this war’ Volodymyr Zelenskiy will address G7 leaders on Tuesday to demand a significant increase in their military and diplomatic support after the biggest Russian missile attack on Ukrainian cities since the start of the […]
If the hydrogen-gobbling, methane-producing microorganisms existed, they would have caused their own demise Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported on Monday. But if they existed, these simple life forms would have altered the atmosphere so profoundly […]
Boss says bank is putting aside more money for potential defaults linked to cost of living crisis The boss of Santander UK says the bank is putting aside more money for potential defaults linked to the cost of living crisis after seeing a pickup in customers falling behind on mortgage […]
Experts say loss of 50,000 workers exposes ‘absolute crisis’ facing system still reeling from impact of Covid and Brexit The social care workforce has shrunk for the first time in almost a decade despite rising demand and bed congestion in hospitals fuelled by a lack of care places. England is […]
Guardian analysis of hundreds of documents also finds complaints of rodents, bed bugs, overcrowding and fire safety issues Raw sewage leaking into a living room, rodents, bed bug and mite infestations, overcrowding and fire safety issues make up just some of the complaints levelled at rogue landlords in tribunal filings […]
Exclusive: Tory MPs warn PM she would lose vote on increasing benefits only in line with earnings rather than inflation Liz Truss is teetering on the edge of performing another big U-turn as Tory MPs warned she would lose a vote on delivering a real-terms cut to benefits while new […]