Home Office fears PM views aggressive targeting of women and girls as ‘mere wolf whistling’ amid moves to create specific offence Boris Johnson has infuriated the home secretary by overruling attempts to make public sexual harassment a crime. This has prompted concern at the Home Office that the prime minister […]
Shortages of material, labour and drivers put the party’s mid-2020 target in serious jeopardy, say analysts Boris Johnson’s election pledge to build 300,000 new houses a year is in serious jeopardy in the face of labour and material shortages that are causing major disruption across the economy, industry figures have […]
EU leaders urged to push back against No 10’s brinkmanship over role of European Court of Justice Fears that the UK is heading for a trade war with the EU have been fuelled by strong indications from the government that proposals to be unveiled in Brussels on Wednesday over Brexit […]
Survey of impact of supply chain crisis in past fortnight also finds 15% could not buy fuel Almost nine million people, representing one in six adults in Great Britain, have not been able to buy essential food items in the past two weeks because they were not available, official research […]
Other 19 clubs united in opposition to Newcastle takeover Clubs concerned Premier League’s brand could be damaged Angry clubs have targeted the Premier League with complaints about the Newcastle United takeover and are pushing for an emergency meeting next week. The 19 other top-flight clubs are understood to be united […]
Casey is to lead review into lax Met standards after crisis caused by Wayne Couzens scandal The former Whitehall troubleshooter Louise Casey has been brought in by the Metropolitan police to root out misogyny and lax standards, as it battles to dig itself out of a crisis caused by its […]
Covid misinformation remains on site for months adding to concern over impact of social media on young people Lies and conspiracy theories about Covid-19, which have amassed millions of views and are accessible to young children, have been available on the social media platform TikTok for months. TikTok accounts with […]
The National Archives told to give documents to House committee despite ex-president’s attempt assert executive privilege Joe Biden has blocked an attempt by former US president Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, […]
Exclusive: Report from planning exercise in 2016 alerted government of need to stockpile PPE and set up contact tracing system Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 […]
Service aims to immunise more than half the population amid fears of particularly deadly flu season The NHS is to embark on the most ambitious programme of flu jabs in its history amid warnings of up to 60,000 deaths. The health service aims to immunise a record 35 million people […]