Katharine Birbalsingh says aim is to move away from fixation on small minority of rags to riches tales The new head of the Social Mobility Commission will call for a move away from the fixation with rags to riches tales of “caretaker’s daughter goes to Oxbridge and becomes a top […]
High-profile MPs back demand from Adam Smith Institute to reduce tax burden and ease cost of living crisis Senior Conservatives from across the party have renewed calls for Boris Johnson to implement urgent tax cuts as Downing Street played down the prospects of a shift in policy. A string of […]
Workers to strike on 21, 23 and 25 June over possible job cuts at Transport for London and national rail network Rail workers are to strike for three days in late June, in a move that is likely to halt much of the national rail network across Britain for a […]
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Research by Royal College of Nursing suggests racism is ‘endemic’ in health and care White nurses are twice as likely as black and Asian colleagues to be promoted in the NHS, with minority ethnic staff overlooked due to structural racism, according to research. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said […]
Alessandra Sampaio, whose husband Dom Phillips was last seen in the Amazon on Sunday, makes appeal in tearful video message The wife of the British journalist who has vanished in a remote corner of the Amazon with a celebrated Indigenous expert has issued an emotional plea for Brazilian authorities to […]
PM retains support of most colleagues but badly weakened after result in which 148 MPs voted against him Boris Johnson was clinging to his premiership on Monday night after 148 of his MPs voted to oust him from Downing Street in a ballot that exposed potentially fatal rifts within his […]
Only the most stridently supportive titles stand vocally behind prime minister after 41% of his own MPs vote for his removal A haunted-looking Boris Johnson stares out from the front pages of many of the papers after a dramatic night of Conservative party bloodletting at Westminster. The prime minister is […]
Even the PM’s allies concede it’s ‘the beginning of the end’ after 40% of MPs decline to support leader Tory rebels have vowed to keep trying to force Boris Johnson from office, as the prime minister’s allies admitted he was reaching “the beginning of the end” after a devastating result […]
The prime minister is damaged; so are the country and his party. His relief will not be long-lived After a snap contest whose abbreviated timetable was tailored to his advantage, Boris Johnson won the vote of confidence tonight only by 211 to 148 votes, with all 359 Conservative MPs casting […]