Estimated 45m people will struggle to pay energy bills this winter with predicted rises in price cap Two-thirds of all UK households will be trapped in fuel poverty by January with planned government support leaving even middle-income households struggling to pay their bills, according to research. It shows 18 million […]
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Exclusive: Tory leadership frontrunner suggested Britons lacked ‘skill and application’, in echo of ‘idlers’ row Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal. In […]
Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissidents […]
The vice-chair of the House January 6 panel faced retribution from state voters for going against the former president Liz Cheney has paid the price for her staunch opposition to Donald Trump’s assault on US democracy by losing her seat in Congress to a challenger backed by the former president. […]
Ministers accepted urgency of need of those infected in 1970s and 1980s, who are dying at the rate of one every four days ‘My family was destroyed’: relatives of blood scandal victims get nothing Survivors of the contaminated blood scandal have been awarded interim government payments after a 40-year battle, […]
Train driver was in process of reversing train out of danger when panicked passengers broke the windows to escape As many as 20 passengers have suffered burns, three of them seriously, after they jumped from a train when it was engulfed by a forest fire near Castellón in north-east Spain. […]
Investment is needed to help country recover from drought, say politicians and campaigners What are UK water company chief executives paid? Water company bosses should be stripped of their multimillion-pound bonuses until they fix leaks and build reservoirs, politicians and campaigners have said as the country is gripped by drought. […]
Unsealing the document could reveal the scope of the inquiry against Donald Trump, whose team is rattled by recent events The US Justice Department has asked a judge not to release the affidavit that gave the FBI probable cause to search Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, worsening distrust among top aides […]
Exclusive: Unions warn proposal to reduce payouts by a quarter as headcount shrinks could lead to industrial action Ministers are planning to reduce redundancy pay for civil servants while cutting 91,000 Whitehall jobs, setting up a bitter confrontation that unions warned may lead to legal and industrial action. The proposals […]
Supermarket Iceland is part of scheme to offer sums of £25 to £100 to buy everyday items A zero-interest loans scheme aimed at helping thousands of people who are struggling to put food on the table is being rolled out across the UK. The initiative, the result of a link-up […]