Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: The assisted dying bill falls, the Sussexes quit a school and Trump praises a united Ireland

19 September 2026 9:00 am

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

12 September 2026 9:00 am

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

5 September 2026 9:00 am

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

29 August 2026 9:00 am

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

22 August 2026 9:00 am

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

11 July 2026 9:00 am

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

27 June 2026 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, stood outside 10 Downing Street and said that he would resign as leader…

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20 June 2026 9:00 am

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

13 June 2026 9:00 am

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

6 June 2026 9:00 am

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

30 May 2026 9:00 am

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

23 May 2026 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, found his position challenged after Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary. At the…

Portrait of the week: Labour’s civil war begins, government borrowing rises and Trump arrives in China

16 May 2026 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, made a speech without a jacket or tie in an attempt to save…

Portrait of the week: Golders Green attacked, borrowing costs soar and rat virus hits cruise ship

9 May 2026 9:00 am

Home Two Jewish men aged 76 and 34 were stabbed in Golders Green, north London. Essa Suleiman, 45, a British…

Portrait of the week: Starmer avoids ethics inquiry, Birmingham’s bin strikes end and Trump is targeted by a gunman

2 May 2026 9:00 am

Home The House of Commons voted 335 to 223 against a Conservative-led motion to refer Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime…

Portrait of the week: Olly Robbins is sacked, inflation rises and the Strait of Hormuz is (briefly) opened

25 April 2026 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer tried to explain himself to parliament after Sir Olly Robbins was sacked as permanent under-secretary of…

Portrait of the week: Trump attacks the Pope, Trump praises the King and Melania goes public

18 April 2026 9:00 am

Home Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, the former secretary general of Nato, said: ‘We are under attack. We are not…

Portrait of the week: Trump threatens Iran, Kanye is banned and Artemis II heads to the Moon

11 April 2026 9:00 am

Home The government withdrew an offer to create 1,000 more training posts for doctors in England after the British Medical…