Orchestrated hostility from the right is undermining public service broadcasting when it has never been more vitalIt is hardly surprising that Rupert Murdoch, having surveyed the ramshackle, amateurish beginnings of GB News from his Oxfordshire es…
Boris Johnson admits he has six children
Prime minister, previously coy about his complex family life, answers interviewer during US visitBoris Johnson has admitted for the first time that he has six children, claiming in an interview on US television that he “changes a lot of nappies”.The pr…
Johnson says he has changed his mind on the climate – but he’s still dragging his feet | Adrienne Buller
Outright denial has been replaced by something that may turn out to be even worse: delayAs he flew to New York yesterday to speak to the UN general assembly about the Cop26 climate conference, Boris Johnson was asked to defend old comments made by his …
It seems the Conservatives failed to fix the country while the gas was flowing | Marina Hyde
Britain faces an energy crisis. Will the lights go out just as the Cop26 climate conference begins?Dark days loom – perhaps literally – as Britain’s energy situation moved from a “squeeze” to a “crisis” over the weekend, rising swiftly through the gear…
Westminster Tories are driving support for the SNP in Scotland | Letters
Dougie Mitchell and Judith Reeves set out why many Scots, even unionists, prefer Sturgeon’s progressive party to the alternative, while Dr Hugh Young says anti-Brexit sentiment is not confined to the SNPYour editorial (The Guardian view on the SNP: del…
Autumn budget must show financial firepower behind ‘levelling up’ | Richard Partington
As the UK economy enters a rough patch, government needs to give substance to its flagship soundbiteBritain’s economic recovery from lockdown is stalling and inflation is on the rise. With the approach of autumn, prophecies made earlier this year for a…
Want to ‘level up’ the UK? Just give places the power and money they need | John Harris
The government pits regions against one another in a battle for handouts. Meanwhile, it keeps cutting local authority fundingFor a term that has been in circulation for more than two years, “levelling up” has not been the catchiest of political concept…
Child poverty now costs Britain £38bn a year, says new independent report
Despite Conservative claims to have reduced childhood deprivation, the burden on taxpayers has soared over the past eight yearsThe cost of child poverty has soared over the past eight years under the Conservatives and has now reached £38bn a year, acco…
Can Boris Johnson’s new faces help him deliver on old promises?
The Tory leader’s reshuffle was ruthless but the challenge is to create a post-Covid recovery and prove ‘levelling up’ and ‘global Britain’ aren’t mere slogansFor ministers who trooped into Downing Street on Wednesday it was hardly the warmest of welc…
Universal credit cut will push 800,000 people into poverty, Boris Johnson warned
Senior Tories plot to force government U-turnBoris Johnson is warned today that more than 800,000 people risk being plunged into poverty as a result of an imminent cut to universal credit, amid a plot by senior Tories to force the government into a las…