Emergency services and ambulances ‘treating dozens of injured’ as rescue services say 28 killed Dozens of people have been killed in a crowd crush at a Jewish religious gathering in northern Israel attended by tens of thousands of people, in one of the country’s worst peacetime disasters. A rescue service […]
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Exclusive: King’s Fund and Institute for Government challenge Boris Johnson’s refusal to start investigation Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson’s refusal to trigger a public inquiry into the UK’s handling of Covid is facing a fresh challenge as some of the country’s leading experts in […]
Campaigners fear that bags are often used just once despite their name, creating more plastic waste The Co-operative Group is to stop selling plastic “bags for life” because, with many shoppers using them only once, they have become as big a problem as the single-use carriers they replaced. With more […]
Electoral Commission believes there are ‘reasonable grounds’ to suspect offences around renovation of 11 Downing Street The Electoral Commission has launched an inquiry that has the potential to imperil Boris Johnson’s premiership as the “cash for curtains” row increasingly engulfed the prime minister. With sweeping powers to call witnesses and […]
Steepest decline in wellbeing came among those newly reliant on universal credit and self-employment grants, UK survey finds Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Previously comfortably-off people who suffered sudden and massive drops in household income during the pandemic crisis recorded the sharpest increases in mental illness, […]
Plan includes funding for universal preschool, free college and childcare State of the union style speech to tout his accomplishments Includes an appeal to working-class voters on economic recovery plans White House announces sweeping plan for childcare and pre-school 3.51am BST Scott, who has just wrapped up his speech, offered […]
Letter signed by 170 cultural figures seeks a ‘unilateral and open offer’ to rejoin EU ahead of Holyrood elections European leaders are being urged to make an “unilateral and open offer” to Scotland to rejoin the EU should it vote for independence in a future referendum, in a letter signed […]
Foster says she will stand aside as DUP leader on 28 May and as first minister a month later Arlene Foster has announced she is stepping down as leader of the Democratic Unionist party and Northern Ireland’s first minister after a sudden internal party revolt. Foster issued a statement on […]
Government defeats amendment aiming to stop fire safety costs being passed on to leaseholders, but Lords vote means new Commons showdown Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders living in unsellable and potentially dangerous high-rise homes will continue to face fire safety bills of up to £100,000 each after MPs again voted […]
Union body says 15,000 people of working age have died from Covid in England and Wales Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Trades Union Congress is calling for an immediate public inquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic, insisting it should examine whether workers were […]