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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:02:17 GMTGovernment accused of ‘cover-up’ after ruling out search of Matt Hancock’s private emails
‘This is all rather convenient,’ said Good Law Project campaign group
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:36:48 GMTBoris Johnson news - live: ‘Road will run out’ for PM, Starmer says, as Greensill report dubbed a ‘cover-up’
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Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:17:20 GMTNo self-isolation exemptions for retail, hospitality or supermarket store staff, says minister
‘Special exception’ for 10,000 key workers in food supply chain, says environment secretary
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:24:23 GMT‘We thought she was going to beat it’: Amy Winehouse’s stepmother on how the late singer fought her addiction
Exclusive: ‘Quiet periods can be quite dangerous for someone who has an addiction,’ Jane Winehouse tells Maya Oppenheim on the 10th anniversary of the musician’s death
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:53:41 GMTDawn Butler: Why was Labour MP ordered to leave the Commons?
Accusing fellow MPs of lying breaches Commons ‘unparliamentary language’ rule
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:49:46 GMTWhich key workers are exempt from self-isolation?
The policy is not a ‘blanket exemption’ for all workers in a sector, the government warns
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:16:36 GMTMPs’ pay could rise above public sector workers under watchdog’s proposals
Body which decides on salaries wants new powers to vary pay ‘below or above’ public sector
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:10:24 GMTCovid testing scheme allows ‘pinged’ food industry workers to avoid self-isolation
Test and release scheme will ‘minimise disruption’ from pingdemic, says health secretary
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 05:32:06 GMTThe women whose lives Amy Winehouse turned around
Women explain how the late singer overhauled their lives 10 years on from her death
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 02:07:40 GMTJulia James: Family pay tribute to murdered PSCO with ‘huge heart’
‘Mum would light up a room with her smile as soon as she walked in’
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:11:52 GMTStop Cambo oil field or we’ll see you in court, Greenpeace warns government
Campaigners say site’s impact on environment not properly assessed
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:51:16 GMTMalakai Watts: Mother jailed for nine years for manslaughter of ‘tiny’ baby
‘She has taken him from me in a terrible way’
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:47:40 GMTBritain heading for biggest cut to social security since WWII, think tank warns
‘It is levelling down, not levelling up’
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 23:34:41 GMTSix injured as car hits crowd outside pub after driver, 79, suffers ‘medical episode’
‘This was a very distressing incident’ said police
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 23:45:12 GMTPingdemic could bring economy ‘grinding to a halt’, business warns as government reveals exemptions
No 10 urges shoppers not to panic-buy, as new scheme allows ‘critical’ workers to avoid self-isolation
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:45:35 GMTGovernment to rethink £27bn road building strategy because of ‘changes to travel’ after Covid
Move away from commuting ‘unlikely to be fully reversed’ after crisis, says transport secretary
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:29:16 GMTWoman filmed racially abusing passengers on train from Essex to London and threatening to stab them
British Transport Police wants other eyewitnesses to come forward
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:22:03 GMTLabour MP ordered to leave Commons for saying Boris Johnson has ‘lied over and over again’
‘Somebody needs to tell the truth in this House,’ says Dawn Butler
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:17:01 GMTPolice Federation ‘no longer has confidence’ in Priti Patel, branding pay freeze ‘final straw’
Home secretary’s position now ‘untenable’, says Labour
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:12:18 GMTEU boss rejects UK demand for renegotiation of Brexit deal in call with Boris Johnson
Threat to tear up Northern Ireland Protocol not off table, Downing Street indicates
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:43:03 GMTLone women in Covid quarantine hotels to get female guards
Two male guards will be allocated if a female guard is not available, DHSC said
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:39:41 GMTTory MPs’ anger over Covid certification for party conference
High-profile gathering in Manchester expected to take place in ‘hybrid’ form this October
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:38:58 GMT‘Privileged few’ have disproportionate access to top government figures, Greensill lobbying report finds
Finance boss had ‘sometimes extraordinarily privileged’ relationship with government
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:10:03 GMTNHS told to find £1.5bn of savings to fund staff pay rise, despite fears of service cuts
Treasury and health department were thought to be at loggerheads over who pays the bill
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:20:35 GMTThat’s bad! UK sanctions Equatorial Guinea leader’s son who spent aid on Michael Jackson glove
The Foreign Office sanctions five individuals who have “lined their own pockets at the expense of their citizens”
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:48:13 GMTWill the ‘pingdemic’ really cause food shortages?
Barren supermarket shelves have been seen across UK as staff absences prompted by app self-isolation orders rise
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:34:32 GMTBrexit news live: EU will not renegotiate NI Protocol, Ursula von der Leyen says after Boris Johnson call
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Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:58:02 GMTTommy Robinson loses libel case brought by Syrian schoolboy
English Defence League founder sued by teenager he accused of carrying out assaults at school
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:25:27 GMTSafety fears as tests for lorry and van drivers on UK roads are relaxed to tackle shortage after Brexit
Campaigners condemn ‘watering down’ of the rules – also hailed as benefit from ‘increased sovereignty’ after Brexit
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:25:24 GMTGovernment to rethink £27bn road building strategy because of ‘changes to travel’ after Covid
Move away from commuting ‘unlikely to be fully reversed’ after crisis, says transport secretary
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:02:27 GMTNo 10 urges shoppers not to panic, as ‘pingdemic’ leads to empty shelves
Supply chains ‘robust’ despite thousands of workers staying home, insists Downing Street
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:50:18 GMTCroydon tram crash inquest: Passengers not unlawfully killed, jury concludes
Seven people died and 51 were injured in the 2016 crash
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:40:50 GMTIsolation rules for double-vaccinated Britons may not be lifted on 16 August, minister warns
‘We always review the information a week before and then we make the decision’, says business secretary
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:51:41 GMTUK weather news: Roads melt in heatwave as thundery showers expected at weekend
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Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:38:45 GMTUK government steps in to rescue abortion services in Northern Ireland ‘at risk of collapse’
‘Abortion is healthcare, the sooner it is embedded in our healthcare system and any remaining stigma around it removed, the better,’ says campaigner
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:16:48 GMTNational insurance hike to pay for social care still on table, says No 10
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng agrees the Tory manifesto ruled out tax hikes, saying ‘I don’t see how we could increase national insurance’
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:31:39 GMTBruno Lachaux awarded £50,000 in libel damages from Independent Print Limited
Bruno Lachaux, an aerospace engineer has been awarded £50,000 in compensation from Independent Print Limited after it published unverified claims he had (amongst other things) abused his ex-wife, which have since been determined by the High Court to...
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:19:57 GMTRecord 618,000 people pinged by NHS Covid app in England and Wales in a week
Figure jumps by around 100,000 in just seven days
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 09:16:46 GMTCutting universal credit ‘unnecessary evil’, warns Boris Johnson’s former homelessness adviser
‘I’m disappointed in the chancellor and I’m disappointed in the prime minister,’ Dame Louise Casey says
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:49:33 GMTPublic urged not to panic buy as ‘pingdemic’ blamed for supermarket shortages
Lorry drivers forced to self-isolate partly to blame while petrol stations in some areas are running low on fuel
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:02:11 GMTGovernment ‘very concerned’ by empty supermarket shelves as pingdemic causes staff shortages
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng ‘monitoring the situation’ closely
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:25:26 GMTMinister claims Northern Ireland Protocol not meant to ‘last forever’ despite it being international treaty
Agreement with EU ‘isn’t written in stone, it’s not something that was going to last forever’, Kwasi Kwarteng says
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:41:54 GMTDecision to fill Victorian arch with concrete branded ‘cultural vandalism’
More than 100 historical structures are at risk of being filled with concrete