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11 February 2023 9:00 am

Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, rearranged the deck chairs. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was broken…

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4 February 2023 9:00 am

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28 January 2023 9:00 am

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18 January 2023 10:00 pm

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14 January 2023 9:00 am

Home Government ministers held short meetings with trade union representatives as strikes continued by ambulance drivers, teachers, bus drivers and…

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7 January 2023 9:00 am

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17 December 2022 9:00 am

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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10 December 2022 9:00 am

Home The RMT union decided to add a couple of rail strikes just before and after Christmas to those planned.…

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3 December 2022 9:00 am

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26 November 2022 9:00 am

Home The Supreme Court ruled that the Scottish government does not have the power to hold an independence referendum without…

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19 November 2022 9:00 am

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12 November 2022 9:00 am

Home Sir Gavin Williamson resigned from the cabinet as minister without portfolio following publication of texts he had sent (annoyed…

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5 November 2022 9:00 am

Home Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, spoke in the Commons of an ‘invasion on our southern coast’ by migrants in…

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29 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Rishi Sunak, aged 42, became Prime Minister. At the weekend Boris Johnson had flown back from a holiday in…

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22 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Liz Truss said in a BBC interview as Prime Minister that she wanted to ‘say sorry for the mistakes…

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15 October 2022 9:00 am

Home The Bank of England warned of a ‘material risk’ to financial stability as it stepped in to buy a…

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8 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Liz Truss, the Prime Minister, came up with a message for the Conservative party conference: ‘Whenever there is change,…

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1 October 2022 9:00 am

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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24 September 2022 9:00 am

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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17 September 2022 9:00 am

Home The body of Queen Elizabeth lay in state at Westminster Hall, in a coffin draped in the royal standard…

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10 September 2022 9:00 am

Home Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, said in a speech outside 10 Downing Street: ‘Boris Johnson delivered Brexit, the…

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3 September 2022 9:00 am

Home Liz Truss, the contender for the Conservative party leadership who is expected to become prime minister next Tuesday, resisted…

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27 August 2022 9:00 am

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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20 August 2022 9:00 am

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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13 August 2022 9:00 am

Home Energy bills will be £4,266 for a typical household by January, according to the consultancy Cornwall Insight, which had…