Chronic underfunding, Covid and staff shortages blamed for increase in physical and verbal assaultsNHS staff across the UK are facing a “growing tide of abuse” including assaults from patients, which they say is being caused by frustration at long wait…
Kwasi Kwarteng accused of misleading claims over power cable project
Letter from 2019 reveals business secretary supported £1.2bn project linked to Conservative donorA cabinet minister has been accused of making misleading claims about a £1.2bn cable project linked to a Conservative donor.Almost one in 10 Conservative M…
Rishi Sunak to save billions by counting IMF cash as aid for poor
Exclusive: chancellor criticised by former Tory international development secretaries for planned use of $27.4bn windfallRishi Sunak is to save billions of pounds by counting as aid financial assistance to poor countries being provided as a result of a…
UK’s ‘strictest’ headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh made social mobility chief
Opponent of woke culture who founded outstanding London free school takes government appointmentThe headteacher of a school dubbed the strictest in Britain who has attacked “woke culture” has been appointed as the government’s new Social Mobility Commi…
Harvey Weinstein PA says abusers still have the legal power to silence victims
Outrage ensued when Zelda Perkins revealed her non-disclosure agreement in 2017 but the expected reforms never cameIn the weeks after she first broke her non-disclosure agreement, Zelda Perkins, Harvey Weinstein’s former personal assistant, felt dizzy …
1,100 migrants cross Channel on small boats to UK in two days
Crossings take place as French minister accuses UK of failing to pay promised £55m to tackle the problemMore than 1,100 people made the perilous journey across the Channel in small boats on Friday and Saturday, as France accused Britain of failing to p…
The Tories have persuaded voters there’s a threat worse than fuel shortages | Nesrine Malik
The goal of the ‘war on woke’ is to make people think that while things are bad, they could be a lot worse if the left was in powerThe British historian Alex von Tunzelmann explained to me a few years ago why we are unable to discuss empire without den…
James Brokenshire obituary
Highly respected Conservative MP and minister who served as secretary of state for Northern IrelandJames Brokenshire, who has died aged 53 of lung cancer, was the Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup and a minister in successive governments, inclu…
There’s no point in Labour waiting for Britain’s economic crisis to get worse | John Harris
‘If it’s not hurting, it’s not working,’ the Tories used to say. So as the pain grows, Boris Johnson will claim it as a successOn the face of it, politics in England is in a weird, almost delirious state. The governing party has been in power for more …
Energy crisis: Treasury reprimands Kwarteng after help for firms claim
Source close to Rishi Sunak accuses business secretary of ‘making up’ talks with chancellor about supportThe Treasury has issued an extraordinary reprimand to the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, after he suggested he was consulting the chancellor, …