Footballer and poverty campaigner says ministers should focus on efforts to end the ‘child hunger pandemic’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The footballer Marcus Rashford has urged the government to end threats to social security payments and focus instead on practical measures to address what he […]
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Editorial in publications worldwide urges leaders to take measures to stop ‘greatest threat to public health’ More than 200 health journals worldwide are publishing an editorial calling on leaders to take emergency action on climate change and to protect health. The British Medical Journal said it is the first time […]
Lobby group urges action on visas for foreign workers such as drivers, welders, butchers and bricklayers Wagamama struggling to find chefs at a fifth of its UK sites The labour crisis could last for up to two years, Britain’s leading business lobby group has warned, as it called for ministers […]
Tobias Ellwood, chair of the defence select committee, says spats are damaging the UK’s global standing Britain must rediscover the will to lead on global issues | Tobias Ellwood A senior Conservative MP is demanding an immediate end to the “unseemly and unprofessional” row between the foreign and defence secretaries […]
Boris Johnson is heading for a clash with backbench MPs over plans for mass vaccination of teenagers Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Parents should choose whether they allow their children to be vaccinated against Covid-19 if ministers overrule scientific advice against mass vaccination of healthy 12- […]
Party and union figures urge new policy as Manchester mayor Andy Burnham tells Labour leader: taxing wealth is the fairest way The row over how to fund social care threatens to engulf Labour this weekend as Keir Starmer faces pressure from across the party to commit to taxing the wealthy […]
Peers’ challenge to government may see it arguing for lower environmental standards at home while hosting global summit Ministers are facing a fortnight of showdowns with peers over weak post-Brexit green protections just weeks before the Cop26 summit on the environment. An alliance of crossbench and opposition peers has tabled […]
Structural experts have ‘unambiguously’ advised that building poses a risk and should be carefully taken down Ministers are expected to announce this month that Grenfell Tower will be demolished because of safety concerns, more than four years after the fire that killed 72 people. Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, has […]
Growing backlash from cabinet ministers and MPs after leaks about plan for national insurance rise Boris Johnson is expected to make a final decision over the weekend about whether to press ahead with his controversial social care funding plan, in the face of a growing backlash from cabinet ministers and […]
Exclusive: Foreign Office said guards would be given right to come to Britain, but evacuation attempt failed Just one of the team of 125 British embassy guards who were promised help to leave Afghanistan by the Foreign Office has made it to the UK. Faiz is in quarantine in a […]