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January The first day of the year reached 16.3°C in St James’s Park, London. In France, 874 cars were set…
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Home The RMT union decided to add a couple of rail strikes just before and after Christmas to those planned.…
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Home The Supreme Court ruled that the Scottish government does not have the power to hold an independence referendum without…
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Home Sir Gavin Williamson resigned from the cabinet as minister without portfolio following publication of texts he had sent (annoyed…
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Home Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, spoke in the Commons of an ‘invasion on our southern coast’ by migrants in…
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Home Rishi Sunak, aged 42, became Prime Minister. At the weekend Boris Johnson had flown back from a holiday in…
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Home Liz Truss said in a BBC interview as Prime Minister that she wanted to ‘say sorry for the mistakes…
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Home The Bank of England warned of a ‘material risk’ to financial stability as it stepped in to buy a…
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Home Liz Truss, the Prime Minister, came up with a message for the Conservative party conference: ‘Whenever there is change,…
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Home Kwasi Kwarteng, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a far-reaching ‘fiscal event’ (ineligible to be called a Budget), said…
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Home Queen Elizabeth was buried in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, beside her husband and father, after a funeral at…
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Home The body of Queen Elizabeth lay in state at Westminster Hall, in a coffin draped in the royal standard…
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Home Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, said in a speech outside 10 Downing Street: ‘Boris Johnson delivered Brexit, the…
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Home Liz Truss, the contender for the Conservative party leadership who is expected to become prime minister next Tuesday, resisted…
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Home Inflation would reach 18.6 per cent by January and the energy price cap £5,816 in April, according to a…
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Home The annual rate of inflation rose to 10.1 per cent, its highest since 1982. Average wages rose by 4.7…
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Home Energy bills will be £4,266 for a typical household by January, according to the consultancy Cornwall Insight, which had…
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Home BP reported quarterly profits of £6.9 billion, its biggest for 14 years, after oil and gas prices rose steeply.…
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Home In a television debate between the two contenders for the leadership of the Conservative party (and hence the prime…
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Home In the contest for the leadership of the Conservative party, Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi were the first of…
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Home The Conservatives began the process of finding a new leader, which involves balloting MPs and then sending two names…
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Home Rishi Sunak resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sajid Javid as Health Secretary. (Nadhim Zahawi accepted the post…
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Home Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, said that military spending had to increase. Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, reacted to…
