Portrait of the week
Portrait of the week: The assisted dying bill falls, the Sussexes quit a school and Trump praises a united Ireland
Home MPs voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that offered assisted suicide, by 286 to 270;…
Portrait of the week: Britain sanctions Jewish settlements, Dover protests erupt and the AfD wins big
Home Ed Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, set out in the Commons new restrictions on buying goods made in Jewish settlements…
Portrait of the week: Keir Starmer leaves, borrowing costs soar and King Harald dies
Home Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, said that anyone convicted of unlawful killing would be excluded from the early release…
Portrait of the week: Burnham heads to Kyiv, energy bills rise and Meghan and Harry return
Home Andy Burnham made his first foreign trip as Prime Minister, to Kyiv. ‘Despite Russia’s outrageous threats to my country,’…
Portrait of the week: barbecues are banned, Burnham is fooled and Farage wins Clacton
Home The temperature reached 38.1ºC at Kew Gardens, Surrey. In the West Midlands a wildfire at Stourbridge burnt down 19…
Portrait of the Week: Resignations, royal farces and World Cup wins
Home Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform, announced that he would leave parliament (by applying to be Steward and Bailiff…
Portrait of the week: Burnham wins, Starmer resigns and a heatwave hits
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, stood outside 10 Downing Street and said that he would resign as leader…
Portrait of the week
Home The electors of Makerfield decided who might be prime minister. After John Healey resigned as defence secretary, Al Carns…
Portrait of the week: Belfast burns, Sullivan resigns and the Iran ceasefire cracks
Home A horrible video circulated on social media of a man on the ground in a Belfast street being stabbed…
Portrait of the week: Sturgeon speaks, Henry Nowak’s killer is jailed and Mandelson’s messages are released
Home Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of Henry…
Portrait of the week: Tony Blair intervenes, Peter Murrell pleads guilty and temperatures hit a May high
Home Sir Tony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, said in a 5,700-word essay: ‘The Labour party is playing with…
Portrait of the week: Streeting resigns, HS2 stalls and ebola spreads to Uganda
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, found his position challenged after Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary. At the…
