Exclusive: Government suspends use of under-18s to teach English pupils after being approached about revelations Analysis: Tutoring scheme throws money at the private sector again Tutors in Sri Lanka who are as young as 17 and earning as little as £1.57 an hour have been used by the government’s flagship […]
Anthony Blinken criticises China over Hong Kong and Xinjiang while his counterpart says US can no longer ‘speak to China from a position of strength’ The United States and China publicly rebuked each other in the first face-to-face talks between senior officials from the two countries since Joe Biden took […]
European vice-president Maroš Šefčovič says claim about Brussels trying to erect barrier down Irish Sea undermines UK’s reputation Britain’s foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has been accused by Brussels of displaying a “total misunderstanding” of the Brexit deal after claiming the EU was trying to erect a barrier between Northern Ireland […]
Ministers accused of ‘moving goalposts’ and wrongly taking credit for success of immunisation programme Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson has sought to reassure the public over the vaccine programme as NHS leaders privately accuse ministers of piling pressure on staff to meet unrealistic expectations […]
Dan Hanks claims he compiled 90-page report about actor early in her relationship with Prince Harry A private investigator employed by the Sun has said he illegally accessed the Duchess of Sussex’s private information shortly after she met Prince Harry. Dan Hanks, who lives in Los Angeles, told the website […]
Committee ruled by five votes to four that first minister’s account of meetings with Salmond was ‘incorrect’ Nicola Sturgeon misled the Scottish parliament over the Alex Salmond crisis, a Holyrood inquiry has concluded after a narrow majority vote, it is understood. A special Holyrood committee ruled, by five votes to […]
Thinktank says government’s decision was a ‘huge mistake’ and should be central to any pandemic inquiry Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Delaying the winter lockdown caused up to 27,000 extra deaths in England, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has claimed as it accused the government of a […]
Sir Stephen House says officers were ‘doing their duty as they saw it’ and he will not second-guess them The deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police has said he “can’t apologise for my officers” over their handling of the Sarah Everard vigil in south London last weekend. Speaking to the […]
Nasa’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, has sent back the sounds of its six metal wheels driving across the planet’s surface. The recording was captured by one of its two onboard microphones, with Nasa releasing 16 minutes’ worth. Engineers are investigating whether a high-pitched scratching noise is caused by electromagnetic interference […]
Regulator finds disturbing inconsistencies, including order being applied to everyone over 80 with dementia in one residence Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Blanket orders not to resuscitate some care home residents at the start of the Covid pandemic have been identified in a report by England’s […]