Portrait of the week
Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, rearranged the deck chairs. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was broken…
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Home Government ministers held short meetings with trade union representatives as strikes continued by ambulance drivers, teachers, bus drivers and…
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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…
