Labour and CBI express concerns the government’s tax policies are bad for business and workers Higher national insurance payments will leave low-paid frontline workers potentially more than £1,000 a year worse off, while also depriving firms of the cash needed to invest, according to the latest analyses. The combination of […]
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Singer posts video of sparkling ring, days after father filed to end the conservatorship that controls her life Britney Spears has announced her engagement to her boyfriend Sam Asghari with an exuberant post displaying a diamond ring engraved with the word “lioness”. She wrote “I can’t fucking believe it!“ with […]
‘We will not accept return to old pre-pandemic NHS, which was so patently understaffed,’ chair to say Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Chronic neglect of the NHS, poor pandemic preparedness and flawed government policies have contributed to the appalling impact of the Covid-19 crisis in the […]
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and George W Bush join mourners in ceremonies in New York, Pennsylvania and at Pentagon Some wept. Some held photos of loved ones At 8.46am, precisely two decades after a passenger plane became a new and deadly weapon here, all fell silent in remembrance. Families of […]
Exclusive: NHS leaders understood to have been briefed on plans to vaccinate children, beginning from 22 September • Coronavirus – latest updates • See all our coronavirus coverage Plans for Covid vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-olds across the UK are to be announced by the government this week, with a […]
18-year-old Briton beats Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 Victor came through qualifying and did not lose a set There are so many basic milestones that Emma Raducanu has not yet recorded in a professional tennis career that only began in full three months ago. She has never been a direct entrant […]
Home secretary reportedly brokered meeting between Tory donor and British Airways without officials present Labour has accused the home secretary of being “reckless” and a “serial offender” in breaching the ministerial code after allegations she brokered a meeting between a billionaire Tory donor and British Airways. The Sunday Mirror reported […]
Partners and spouses are being kept apart by Home Office delays in processing revised versions of entry permits to Britain A British woman has told how she had to separate her six-year-old son from his French father because post-Brexit rules prohibited her spouse from returning with her to the UK […]
Exclusive: UK’s top family doctor says medic shortage means GPs are unable to cope with demand Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage GPs in England are “finding it increasingly hard to guarantee safe care” for millions of patients as a shortage of medics means they are unable […]
Some Afghan families were all but wiped out by massacres and airstrikes, provoking survivors to take up arms against the west The men of Zangabad village, Panjwai district lined up on the eve of 11 September to count and remember their dead, the dozens of relatives who they say were […]