Portrait of the week
Portrait of the week
Home In a Budget intended to have ‘no gimmicks, no giveaways’, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, offered pensioners…
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Home Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said that ‘a huge burden of responsibility’ lay with those who acted as apologists…
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Home The man seen in several Islamic State videos of hostages being beheaded, nicknamed Jihadi John by the British press,…
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Home Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former Conservative foreign secretary, resigned as chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee and promised…
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Home The annual rate of inflation fell to 0.3 per cent as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (or to 1.1…
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Home Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, told Parliament that Britain reserved the right to supply arms to Ukraine, as ‘We…
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Home MPs voted by 382 to 128 to make Britain the only country to allow genetic modification of embryos to…
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Home Party leaders mercilessly launched 100 days of campaigning before the general election on 7 May. David Cameron, the Conservative…
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Home More than 1,100 imams and Islamic leaders received a letter from Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, and Lord Ahmad…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that he wanted to change the law so that there would be no…
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Home The electorate was bombarded with contrary claims by parties beginning campaigns for the election in May. David Cameron, the…
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Home King’s Cross railway station was out of operation, stranding thousands, and Paddington saw badly delayed services after Network Rail…
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January Floods covered 28,000 acres of the Somerset Levels. Ukip suspended an Oxfordshire councillor for saying floods were God’s punishment…
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Home The government spent days announcing how the Autumn Statement would allocate funds. ‘Frontline’ parts of the National Health Service…
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Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, spent a few days announcing things. She broadcast on the Andrew Marr Show on…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said: ‘Red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global…
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Home The government, expecting a backbench rebellion over the European Arrest Warrant, did not present it for a separate vote…
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Home Fiona Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, resigned as the head of an inquiry into historical child sex abuse…
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Home The last British combat troops turned over Camp Bastion in Helmand to Afghan forces and withdrew from Afghanistan after…
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Home A hundred firemen could not prevent wooden cooling towers at Didcot B gas-fuelled power station in Oxfordshire from burning…
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Home Checks began at British airports for passengers who might have come from west Africa with Ebola fever (even though…
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Home Alan Henning, 47, a British volunteer aid worker taken captive in Syria by Islamic State, was murdered, and footage…
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Home The Commons, having been specially recalled, passed, by 524 votes to 43, a motion supporting ‘the use of UK…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, visited New York for talks at the United Nations; he said Britain supported the…
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Home People living in Scotland voted in a referendum that asked: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ A great deal…
