Portrait of the week
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Home A rail strike on three alternate days, bringing the system to a standstill for a week, was organised by…
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Home The British economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in April after shrinking by 0.1 per cent in March, according…
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Home Boris Johnson won a vote of confidence in him as prime minister among Conservative MPs by 211 votes to…
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Home The Jubilee for the Queen’s 70 years on the throne was marked by two days of public holiday, 16,000…
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Home Sue Gray starched and ironed her report for publication after the Metropolitan Police wound up its own enquiries into…
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Home The annual rate of inflation, impelled by energy costs, rose to 9 per cent, its highest since 1982. Unemployment…
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Home The Prince of Wales delivered the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament sitting on a throne next…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced £300 million more in military aid for Ukraine. Speaking by video to the…
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Home Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, said Britain assessed that 15,000 Russians had been killed in the war against Ukraine…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, told the House of Commons that it did not occur to him that the…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, travelled to Kyiv in secret and joined President Volodymyr Zelensky for the cameras in…
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Home Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business spokesman, said that the government should be preparing for energy rationing, but Grant Shapps, the…
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Home Twenty fixed-penalty fines were issued after the police inquiry into Downing Street parties that broke Covid rules, but the…
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Home Britain had provided Ukraine with more than 4,000 Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapons, the Ministry of Defence said. Shell…
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Home More than 100,000 people registered interest in giving a place in their homes for Ukrainian refugees under a government…
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Home President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine addressed a packed House of Commons by video, echoing Winston Churchill by declaring that…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia: ‘Never in all my study or…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced, in the House of Commons, sanctions against Russia after its ‘renewed invasion’ of…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, made ready for a Russian invasion of Ukraine by cutting short a planned visit…
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Home In a message for the 70th anniversary of her accession, the Queen said it was her sincere wish that…
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Home Sue Gray, the second permanent secretary in the Cabinet Office, in a 12-page ‘update’ on her investigation into 16…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, told the Commons that Britain was prepared to send troops to protect Nato allies…
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Home Sue Gray, Second Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office, having been asked by Boris Johnson to look into accusations…
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Home Boris Johnson admitted to attending evening drinks for about 40 staff in the garden of 10 Downing Street on…
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Home The warmest New Year’s Day on record saw a temperature of 16.3˚C (61.3˚F) in St James’s Park, London. A…
