Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Assisted dying, Israel vs Iran and Zelensky’s visit

28 June 2025 9:00 am

Home MPs voted by a majority of 23 – 314 to 291 – for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of…

Portrait of the week: War in the Middle East, drought in Yorkshire and a knighthood for Beckham

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, announced a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs (which he had previously…

Portrait of the week: Spending review, LA protests and Greta Thunberg deported

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Home Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, was the last minister to agree funding in the government spending review. Once the…

Portrait of the week: More defence spending, more migrant arrivals and more Jenrick stunts

7 June 2025 9:00 am

Home The government said that the armed forces had to move to ‘warfighting readiness’ and accepted the 62 recommendations of…

Portrait of the week: Liverpool parade crash, Starmer sacrifices Chagos Islands and an octopus invasion

31 May 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, announced that ‘more pensioners’ would qualify for winter fuel payments, but did not…

Portrait of the week: Starmer’s EU deal, Lineker’s BBC departure and an outbreak of camel flu

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer was joined by EU representatives in London to celebrate new agreements with the bloc. EU access…

Portrait of the week: Immigration pledges, trade agreements and a new pope

17 May 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said, ‘We risk becoming an island of strangers’ as the government published a…

Portrait of the week: Reform party’s victories, Duke of Sussex’s defeat and Deliveroo’s takeover

10 May 2025 9:00 am

Home In a day that upset the apple cart of party politics, Reform won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by…

Portrait of the week: power cuts, local elections and the Pope’s funeral

3 May 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Tony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, attacked current net-zero policies, saying that ‘any strategy based on either…

Portrait of the week: Pope dies, EU cheese banned and trans women aren’t women

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, no longer believes that a trans woman is a woman, his official spokesman…

Portrait of the week: British Steel seized, army sent to Birmingham and slim told to stay home in Beijing

19 April 2025 9:00 am

Home Parliament was recalled from its Easter recess to sit on a Saturday for the first time since the Falklands…

Portrait of the week: Trump’s tariffs, a theme park for Bedford and a big bill for Big Macs

12 April 2025 9:00 am

Home In response to President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said: ‘This is not just…

Portrait of the week: Terrible Tuesday, W.H. Smith’s rebrand and no e-bikes on the Tube

5 April 2025 9:00 am

Home For many, ‘Terrible Tuesday’ began ‘Awful April’ with increased bills for water, energy, council tax (to an average in…

Portrait of the week: Spring Statement, Heathrow fire and Prince Harry quits his charity

29 March 2025 9:00 am

Home In the Spring Statement, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made further cuts to benefits (such as freezing…

Portrait of the week: Welfare war, gold prices soar and gang jailed for toilet heist

22 March 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, entertained 29 other national leaders online to seek a way of guaranteeing the…

Portrait of the week: Spies in Norfolk, rats in Birmingham and Denmark ditches letter deliveries

15 March 2025 9:00 am

Home Three Bulgarians were found guilty of spying for Russia as part of a cell that plotted to kidnap and…

Portrait of the week: Zelensky at Sandringham, rail fare rise and Duchess of Sussex’s Chinese takeaways

8 March 2025 9:00 am

Home After the humiliation of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Washington, Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, quickly convened…

Portrait of the week: Foreign aid cut, Pope in hospital and King pulls a pint

1 March 2025 9:00 am

Home Before flying to Washington, Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said: ‘We have to be ready to play our…

Portrait of the week: US and Russia talk, Chiltern Firehouse burns and Duchess of Sussex rebrands

22 February 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said that, to guarantee the security of Ukraine, he was ‘ready and willing’…

Portrait of the week: Andrew Gwynne sacked, Trump saves Prince Harry and a £30m refund over moths

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Home Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended from the Labour party for making jokes about a…

Portrait of the week: Shoplifting surges, Trump eyes Gaza Strip and Norway’s government collapses

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, flew to Brussels for an EU summit, sought a ‘reset’ of relations and…

Portrait of the week: DeepSeek, Duke of Sussex’s damages and an iceberg the size of Cornwall

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Home The government would invest 2.6 per cent of GDP a year to create growth, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of…

Portrait of the week: Trump’s inauguration, Israel-Hamas ceasefire and cardboard humans comfort lonely fish

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Home Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to the murder of three girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed…

Portrait of the week: Tulip Siddiq quits, Sturgeon splits from husband and Trump spared jail

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Home Tulip Siddiq resigned as economic secretary to the Treasury, although she was found not to have broken the ministerial…