Portrait of the week
Portrait of the week: Rishi reshuffles, Truss talks and a trigger warning for Shakespeare’s Globe
Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, rearranged the deck chairs. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was broken…
Portrait of the week: Harry’s confessions, house prices fall and Cornish space launch fails
Home Government ministers held short meetings with trade union representatives as strikes continued by ambulance drivers, teachers, bus drivers and…
Portrait of the year: Russia invades Ukraine, the Queen dies and Britain gets through three prime ministers
January The first day of the year reached 16.3°C in St James’s Park, London. In France, 874 cars were set…
Portrait of the week: Christmas rail strikes, Lady Hussey’s resignation and Indonesia’s sex ban
Home The RMT union decided to add a couple of rail strikes just before and after Christmas to those planned.…
Portrait of the week: Eggs rationed, hosepipe ban lifted and Supreme Court rejects Scotland’s referendum bid
Home The Supreme Court ruled that the Scottish government does not have the power to hold an independence referendum without…
Portrait of the week: Williamson resigns, nurses strike and Norwegian royal quits
Home Sir Gavin Williamson resigned from the cabinet as minister without portfolio following publication of texts he had sent (annoyed…
Portrait of the week: A migrant crisis in Manston, elections for Northern Ireland and Matt Hancock heads for the jungle
Home Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, spoke in the Commons of an ‘invasion on our southern coast’ by migrants in…
Portrait of the week: Sunak in No. 10, pasta gets pricier and Russia hits Ukraine’s energy grid
Home Rishi Sunak, aged 42, became Prime Minister. At the weekend Boris Johnson had flown back from a holiday in…
