The Latest Breaking News from Ken Clarke

The Mancunian Way: TikToking from Strangeways in a dressing gown

Why did an inmate scale the roof of Strangeways and stay there for 12 hours?

Manchester Evening News · Apr 13, 2023

Strangeways protestor daubs 'FREE IPPZ' on the roof - what the sentence means and why it's so controversial

The Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence (IPP) was abolished in 2012 and branded 'unjust'

Manchester Evening News · Apr 12, 2023

Fiona Bruce steps back from charity role amid row over domestic violence comment

Bruce has said she is “appalled” and “deeply sorry”

Wales Online · Mar 13, 2023

Hunt became chancellor after a Tory tax calamity. History suggests he’s doomed

Like Roy Jenkins and Kenneth Clarke before him, he can do little but tackle a crisis bequeathed to him by Conservative folly

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2023

Keir Starmer’s private prescription for the NHS is dangerous

Letters: David Hinchcliffe says using the private sector for NHS patients directly undermines the service. Plus letters from Jeanne Warren, Dr John Puntis and Johnbosco Nwogbo

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2023

Former Notts MP Ken Clarke says wealthy patients paying more for NHS care should be considered

The former health secretary and Rushcliffe MP, Lord Clarke, says the Government should not rule out asking some patients to make a "modest contribution" to their treatment.

Nottingham Post · Jan 10, 2023

Wealthy Britons should pay fees to use NHS, suggests Tory peer Ken Clarke

‘Better-off patients’ could be asked to make ‘modest contribution’, says former chancellor

The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2023

Tory grandee Ken Clarke puts boot into 'low depths of farce' Liz Truss

The former Home Secretary, Health Secretary and Chancellor said: “I was quite surprised she got into the Cabinet but then I was utterly amazed she became Prime Minister"

Daily Mirror · Dec 10, 2022

Suella Braverman is shortest-serving home secretary at 43 days

Which politicians trail Braverman as shortest-serving home secretaries in modern times?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2022

Liz Truss holds emergency talks with budget watchdog after failing to calm markets

Liz Truss was due to hold emergency talks with the Office for Budget Responsibility today as the Government scrambles to calm market panic in the wake of the disastrous mini-Budget

Daily Mirror · Sep 29, 2022