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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Johnson faces growing disquiet after allegations he was loaned £58,000 from party funds while being seen to personally foot the bill Boris Johnson is being urged by senior Tories to come clean about the funding of his flat refurbishment as it emerged that a former Labour chancellor refused to join […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ressa has been subject to sustained campaign of gendered online abuse and has been targeted by Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte The UN’s cultural agency has awarded its annual press freedom prize to Philippine journalist Maria Ressa whose reporting has made her a target of her country’s judiciary and online hate […]