Rishi Sunak to host barbecue to boost morale among Tory MPs after missing PMQs for second week – UK politics live
Read More Filters BETA Key events (2)Rishi Sunak (3) A senior civil servant has offered a “sincere apology” to a chemical weapons expert who was blacklisted from speaking at a conference after finding tweets that were critical of the government. Earlier this year, my colleague Dan Sabbagh reported that Dan Kaszeta had been disinvited by […]
Bank of England says 1m households face ?500 rise in monthly mortgage payments by end of 2026 – business live
Read More From 1h ago The governor of the Bank of England said there “will be consequences” of higher interest rates on borrowers, as nearly one million mortgage holders could see their monthly repayments increase by about ?500 in the next three years. Andrew Bailey said at the press conference following the Bank’s latest Financial […]
Jeremy Vine urges BBC presenter to step forward to protect colleagues
Read More Jeremy Vine has urged his fellow BBC presenter at the heart of a scandal engulfing the broadcaster to come forward to protect his colleagues. The crisis began last Friday after the Sun newspaper accused an anonymous male presenter of paying a young person “more than ?35,000 in return for sordid images”. On Tuesday […]
Gove’s department hands back ?1.9bn meant to tackle England’s housing crisis
Read More Michael Gove’s department is handing back ?1.9bn to the Treasury originally meant to tackle England’s housing crisis after struggling to find projects to spend it on. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has surrendered hundreds of millions of pounds budgeted for 2022-23, including ?255m meant to fund new affordable housing […]
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile After Making Allegations on US Spy Planes
Read More North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese military said, just two days after it warned of “counteraction” against alleged intrusions by U.S. spy planes and drones. Both South Korea and Japan reported spotting the launch but have not yet released further details. This […]
Taibbi: AGs Should Review Key Emails Before ‘Mo. V. Biden’
Twitter Files reporter Matt Taibbi on Tuesday urged Attorney Generals Jeff Landry of Louisiana and Missouri’s Andrew Bailey to take a look at important information that may be germane to the ongoing “Missouri v. Biden” lawsuit that speaks to the larger scope of the…
President Biden skips NATO dinner; White House cites ongoing workload
President Biden skipped Tuesday’s NATO dinner, with the White House saying it was because the president had four full workdays and needs to prepare for a speech tomorrow. Biden RSVP’d “no” to tonight’s NATO summit dinner with other world leaders as the 2023 summit kicks off. This is the third time the president has skipped […]