‘Incoherence and inconsistency’: the inside story of the Rwanda deportation plan The long read: There were so many warnings it would fail. How did it get this far? The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2023
Trainspotting creator praises parody video attacking Rishi Sunak's 'populism' THE creator of Trainspotting has praised a parody video of the film attacking the Conservatives’ “short-term populism” ... The National (Scotland) · Oct 4, 2023
The astounding return of Liz Truss: why do so many Tories still love the failed leader? She left Downing Street with rock-bottom ratings after tanking the economy. But at Tory party conference this week she was impossible to ignore The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2023
RishGPT veers between dull and delusional in Tory conference speech Sunak may be slightly better than the Maybot, but he’s still very much AI in development The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2023
Rishi Sunak’s speech showed what’s next for the Tories – and it isn’t him At a chaotic conference, Suella Braverman wasn’t just preparing for a general election, but a leadership battle, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2023
Key dates of the HS2 rail project It has been controversial since plans for the rail line first emerged in 2009. The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023
Health charities welcome Sunak’s plan to curb smoking in England PM’s plan to gradually increase age at which people can buy cigarettes described as ‘incredibly positive step forward’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2023
OPINION - Rishi Sunak can be the candidate of change (if you ignore the last 13 years) Every candidate for high office, from the freshest of faces to the grizzliest of incumbents, seeks to pitch themselves as the candidate of change. This hinges on a cursory understanding of human psychology. Life for a lot of people is tough and when it’s not, it’s tedious. Who the heck… Evening Standard · Oct 4, 2023
‘Serious, inexcusable and avoidable failure’ on children’s rights in pandemic While adults exercised, children were told off by the police for playing and sent home, a lawyer told the inquiry. The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023
Key takeaways from Rishi Sunak’s Tory conference speech - HS2, smoking ban and A-levels axe PM was hoping to brush off days of party infighting and speculation about the future of HS2 with a pitch to fix Britain’s ‘broken’ politics The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023
Rishi Sunak finally axes HS2 in the north – weeks after The Independent revealed plan Former PM David Cameron leads outrage over ‘wrong’ decision, but Tory mayor Andy Street stops short of resigning The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023
Watch live: UK Covid inquiry day two as Boris Johnson accused of ‘bipolar’ decision making Watch live as day two of the UK Covid inquiry gets underway on Wednesday 4 October, after former prime minister Boris Johnson was accused of ‘bipolar’ decision-making The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023
Boris Johnson’s decision-making over Covid was ‘bipolar’, Sir Patrick Vallance warned The former PM was accused of failing to lead the country in the early days of the pandemic, the UK Covid Inquiry was told The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023
How much has HS2 cost so far? Critics of such a move include former prime ministers The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2023 Boris Johnson was ‘flip-flopping’ on decisions during Covid, wrote Vallance Chief scientific adviser in 2020 found the ex-PM ‘completely inconsistent’ in his evidence to the Covid inquiry
The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023 Partygate review: The hypocrisy and amorality of the Downing Street gang is laid bare in painful fashion Channel 4’s brilliant, enraging drama brings the findings of the Sue Gray report to the screen
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2023 Partygate review – a giant, exploding grenade of a TV show Every snog-filled, debauched Covid-era party in Number 10 is shockingly depicted in Channel 4’s jaw-dropping docudrama. It’s a vital document of national shame
The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023 Boris Johnson ‘scrawled in capitals that long Covid was ‘b*****ks’, Covid Inquiry hears Long Covid groups claim the former prime minister initially ‘denied the truth of the suffering’
The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023 Rishi Sunak claims he will fix Britain’s ‘broken’ politics – after 13 years of Tory rule Despite Partygate scandal, chaos of Liz Truss’s mini-Budget and the crumbling concrete crisis in schools, PM vows he can deliver for UK
Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023 Suella Braverman faces backlash for ‘incendiary’ language in Tory conference speech Suella Braverman warned the future ‘could bring millions more migrants to these shores’
The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023 Braverman warns of approaching ‘hurricane’ of mass migration Suella Braverman warned that he future ‘could bring millions more migrants to these shores’ unless the Tories won the next election.
Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023 Boris Johnson was dismissive of disaster and called long Covid ‘bollocks’, inquiry hears The UK Covid-19 Inquiry heard key WhatsApp messages by the then-prime minister from January 31 to June 7 2020 are ‘unrecoverable’
The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023 Boris Johnson was dismissive of disaster, Covid Inquiry hears The former prime minister is also said to have called Long Covid ‘bollocks’ in October 2020.
The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023 Scottish Covid bereaved families want ‘answers, accountability and apology’ Dr Claire Mitchell spoke on behalf of the Scottish Covid Bereaved group at the inquiry in London on Tuesday.
The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023 English Channel migrant arrivals pass key milestone as 1k cross in three days The provisional number of migrant arrivals by sea has now passed 25,000 this year, compared with 45,700 for the whole of 2022