Portrait of the week
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Home England suddenly began to take the prospect of Scottish independence seriously after a poll of 1,084 people by YouGov…
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Home Britain’s terror threat level was raised from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’ in response to fighting in Iraq and Syria, meaning…
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Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that Britons who went to Syria or Iraq to fight could be stripped…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, writing of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, said: ‘If we do not act…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, resisted calls for Parliament to be recalled to debate the crisis in Iraq. Philip Hammond,…
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Home The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined 50 heads of state at the St Symphorien cemetery near Mons to…
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Home Britain is to halve to three months the time that EU migrants without realistic job prospects can claim benefits,…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, told Parliament that President Vladimir Putin of Russia should end his country’s support for…
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Home In a ministerial reshuffle, William Hague, who promised to leave Parliament at the election, was made Leader of the…
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Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, ordered a review, taking perhaps ten weeks, by Peter Wanless, the head of the…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, rang Jean-Claude Juncker to congratulate him on being nominated by EU heads of government…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, fought a last-ditch battle against the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the…
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Home With war engulfing Iraq, Britain set about reopening its embassy in Tehran, closed in 2011. William Hague, the Foreign…
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Home After an Ofsted inspection of 21 schools in Birmingham (none of them faith schools), against the background of allegations…
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Home The government scrabbled together material for the Queen’s Speech, which promised measures to allow money to be put into…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, responded to the triumph of the UK Independence Party in the European elections (which…
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Home Demand for housing posed ‘the biggest risk to financial stability’ according to Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said on television that he was ‘bullish’ about negotiating change for Britain in the…
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Home AstraZeneca’s board rejected an increased takeover bid of £63 billion by Pfizer. Commenting on the bid in Parliament, Vince…
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Home The British economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2014, disappointing hotheads who’d expected 1 per cent. It…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, appeared in public with George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer — the first…
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Home Nigel Evans, who had resigned as deputy speaker before being cleared of a bundle of rape and sexual assault…
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Home Maria Miller resigned as Culture Secretary after a week of being the centre of a game of hunt-the-issue. She…
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Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made ‘a commitment to fight for full employment in Britain’ and for…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that inheritance tax ‘shouldn’t be paid by people who’ve worked hard and saved…
