We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The warning in a briefing from sources in Lord Frost’s negotiating team comes as Business Secretary Alok Sharma has told firms that they now need to step up their preparations for the […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Brussels plans to fork out on business class flights and hotels for couriers transporting “artefacts” from across the world to the European House of History. The venue in the Belgian capital is […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The SNP and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon have continued to push for a second independence referendum in the country, much to the dismay of the UK Government and opposition political parties in […]
As Nicola Sturgeon introduces tighter restrictions across Scotland in response to rising cases of Covid-19, the government is reportedly planning to close pubs and restaurants in parts of northern England from next week. Adam Boulton and guests assess the politics of the decision making as the burden of fighting the coronavirus appears to fall on […]
A government minister has criticised “inappropriate” plans to give MPs a pay rise in the middle of the coronavirus crisis. Business minister Nadhim Zahawi called on the independent body that decides MPs’ salaries to “explain themselves” after they recommended keeping the existing method of calculating pay. This has seen MPs given a pay rise in […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Only 13 percent of Britons still hope the “rule of six” will be eased before Christmas. The majority, 75 percent of those polled, believe the restriction will remain in place throughout the holidays. […]
Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris sat a dozen feet apart on Wednesday, separated by plexiglass and an ideological chasm, for a 90-minute debate that for all the hype seems unlikely to affect the trajectory of presidential campaign. Ms. Harris wanted to talk about President Trump. Mr. Pence wanted to talk about Joseph […]
An exchange between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris late in the debate crystallized the deep differences in the two sides’ approaches to racial justice. Asked whether justice was done in the case of Breonna Taylor, whom police officers fatally shot after bursting into her home in Louisville, Ky., while she was sleeping, […]
President Trump claimed on Wednesday that catching the coronavirus was “a blessing from God” and portrayed as a miracle cure the unproven therapeutic drug he was given after testing positive last week for the virus. Mr. Trump said he planned to make the antibody cocktail being developed by the drug maker Regeneron, which does not […]
Students preparing to sit National 5s in Scotland next year have had their exams cancelled. Highers and Advanced Highers will also be pushed back, starting on the later date of May 13, to let students who missed teaching time due to the coronavirus pandemic catch up. But contingency plans will be developed for the cancellation […]