Brexit minister says he expects Brussels response to UK demand to renegotiate protocol within 10 days The UK will react in a “robust” manner if the EU launches a retaliatory trade war in the event of Brexit talks on Northern Ireland breaking down, the …
The Guardian view on tax havens: bring them to heel | Editorial
The Pandora papers prove that secrecy jurisdictions and their super-rich clients are still running rings around the rest of usFive years after the Panama papers exposed the vast scale of offshore banking and business services via the activities of the …
BBC staffed by people ‘whose mum and dad worked there’, says Nadine Dorries
Culture secretary attacks ‘nepotism’ and ‘groupthink’ at broadcaster in interview at Tory conferenceAll the latest from the Tory conference – liveNadine Dorries has labelled the BBC an institution riven by bias and staffed by people “whose mum and dad …
The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s speech: levelling down | Editorial
The chancellor’s praise for the economic policies of previous Conservative governments augurs badly for struggling familiesOne of the lessons that leading Brexiters learned from the 2016 referendum was that brazen opportunism can pay off handsomely. A …
The Conservative conference shows a party in denial while all around is crisis | Polly Toynbee
The Tories call it a ‘period of adjustment’. But the shortages, price hikes, and this week’s universal credit cut, will force them to face realityThe Tory party conference seems to be floating along in a sea of delusion. Outside their cocooned security…
Tories facing calls to return cash from donors named in Pandora papers
Ministers forced to answer string of questions about Tory donors’ alleged links to corruptionPandora papers news and reaction – live updatesSee all of our Pandora papers coverageThe Conservative party conference was on Monday engulfed in a growing scan…
Tory conference roundup: Gove gets down, Sunak gets up
The levelling up secretary relives his big night out, while the chancellor plays it safe“Here we are – bright lights, great atmosphere, enthusiastic young people. It reminds me of my last night out on the town Aberdeen. Dance like nobody’s watching the…
For ‘unrecognised black women’: statue of Henrietta Lacks unveiled in Bristol
Lacks, whose cells were used in multiple medical advances, is honoured by the city’s universityThere were tears of joy and pride as the first statue of a black woman created by a black woman for a public space in the UK was unveiled in a sunlit garden …
UK fuel crisis ‘could go on for further week’ despite military help
One in five forecourts in London and south-east of England still out of fuelThe UK fuel crisis could run another week, fuel retailers have warned, as military tanker drivers took to the roads to relieve pressure on petrol stations.One in five forecourt…
We cannot stand by as the Tories quietly erase all checks on power | Letters
Readers respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article on how Boris Johnson is rigging the system and trampling over democratic normsJonathan Freedland has probably written his most important opinion piece (In plain sight, Boris Johnson is rigging the system …