Conservatives’ 7-point lead is party’s biggest since July 2020, and a reality check for Keir Starmer Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Conservatives have secured their biggest lead over Labour since last summer amid signs Boris Johnson is benefiting from a “vaccine bounce”, the latest Opinium […]
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Grants will be offered to stricken shops and pubs but NHS fears its pleas for cash will be ignored The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is to offer 700,000 shops, pubs, restaurants, hotels and other businesses, grants of up to £18,000 each as part of a £5bn rescue scheme to prevent mass […]
Biden’s announcement comes after Saudi exiles express shock over lack of sanctions against Mohammed bin Salman over killing of journalist President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the US would make an announcement on Saudi Arabia on Monday, following an intelligence report that found that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman […]
Spanish officials recommend 864 cows that have been at sea for two months are no longer fit for transport More than 850 cows that have spent months aboard a ship wandering across the Mediterranean are no longer fit for transport anymore and should be killed, according to a confidential report […]
Biden administration to target ‘counter-dissident’ activity and Saudi official but not Mohammed bin Salman personally US intelligence agencies have concluded in a newly declassified intelligence report that Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, approved the 2018 murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi – but Washington stopped short of […]
Former first minister launches a stinging attack on the SNP during evidence to a Holyrood inquiry Alex Salmond has suggested that weak and incompetent leadership of Scotland’s institutions could undermine the case for independence, in a bitter attack on his former allies and party. The former first minister said huge […]
Adviser calls for continued adherence to lockdown, as age-based phase 2 of vaccine programme announced Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers and scientific advisers have urged the public not to give up on strict lockdown rules, amid worries that the very obvious success of the UK […]
‘Emil A’, an Italian national living in Berlin, sent emails to NHS and NCA, and demanded £10m in bitcoin Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A threat to bomb a UK hospital at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic’s first wave unless a £10m bitcoin ransom was […]
Father Jamie Spears ‘saved Britney’s life’ says lawyer in response to the #FreeBritney movement that has advocated for the pop star Fans of Britney Spears who believe her father should be ousted from his role overseeing her conservatorship “have it so wrong”, his lawyer has said. The pop star’s finances […]
White House says president ‘affirmed the importance the United States places on universal human rights and the rule of law’ Joe Biden has spoken with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman for the first time as president, ahead of the publication of a US intelligence report expected to implicate the Saudi crown […]