Protecting vulnerable from £700 hike in energy bills means hard choices now | Nils Pratley

The options are unattractive but a massively expanded warm homes scheme gets the vote hereIt’s choose your poison time for a government that must know allowing low-income households to suffer the full blast of the scheduled rise in energy bills in Apri…

UK Covid live: pre-departure tests for travellers to England to be scrapped; 194,747 new cases reported

From 4am on Friday pre-departure tests no longer required for people arriving in England as UK records second highest number of daily casesAlmost 200,000 new Covid cases reported in UKFollow-up PCRs after positive LFT to be suspended in EnglandTravel s…

PMQs: Boris Johnson and Angela Rayner clash over energy prices and inflation

Prime minister talks up rising employment and makes false claims over inflationBoris Johnson and Angela Rayner have clashed over energy prices and the wider cost of living in the first prime minister’s questions of the year, during which Johnson made a…