PM plays down prospects for a breakthrough as he prepares to head to the White House Boris Johnson hailed Joe Biden’s decision to lift the US travel ban on Monday as he prepared to head to the White House, but said progress on a post-Brexit trade deal was unlikely, because […]
PM’s warning to world’s richest countries comes amid suggestions US could commit more funds Boris Johnson has warned the world’s rich countries that “history will judge”, if they fail to act now to tackle the climate crisis, as US climate envoy John Kerry suggested President Biden was poised to commit […]
Email to people who worked for British forces and seek relocation to UK mistakenly made addresses visible to all recipients The Ministry of Defence has apologised and launched an investigation into a data breach that has “needlessly put lives at risk” by revealing the email addresses of more than 250 […]
Business secretary says he will let small suppliers go bust to protect consumers from higher prices Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, will hold an emergency summit with gas industry chiefs on Monday morning in an effort to contain the fallout caused by soaring market prices on consumers and businesses. Mid-level […]
About 5,000 people have been evacuated from near the volcano on La Palma Island but no injuries reported A volcano has erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma, sending lava shooting into the air and streaming in rivers towards houses in two villages from the Cumbre Vieja national […]
The biggest night in television promises to be one of the most competitive in years with The Queen’s Gambit, I May Destroy You, The Crown and Mare of Easttown battling it out 3.46am BST The Ted Lasso Twitter account is living, laughing and loving the night away Winning is fun, […]
Exclusive: shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves tells how party would ‘start to end the unfairness’ in tax system Labour has announced plans to raise almost £500m by closing a tax loophole enjoyed by a small number of private equity fund managers. The shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said the proposal was one […]
Unison says thousands of ‘exhausted’ health workers are on brink of quitting for better paid jobs NHS staff have voted overwhelmingly to oppose the government’s 3% pay rise as Britain’s biggest health union warned thousands of workers are “fed up of being taken for granted”. Publishing the results of a […]
No cause for alarm now, says Kwasi Kwarteng as energy discussions are likened to early Covid crisis talks The government was scrambling on Saturday night to reassure Britons that rising gas prices would not plunge the country into an energy crisis, as ministers held a series of emergency meetings with […]
England’s deputy medical chief asked for data to be withheld unless British vaccine guinea pigs allowed to travel abroad • Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverage England’s deputy chief medical officer asked ministers to withhold all UK clinical trial data from the EU if European countries continued […]