The Latest Breaking News from Theresa May

What is the infected blood scandal?

It is widely regarded as the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.

Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2025

Slavery victims cannot be ‘abandoned’ over loophole concerns, says Theresa May

The peer spoke out after her own frontbench argued her bid to protect those who fall prey to trafficking could be exploited.

Evening Standard · Jul 8, 2025

MPs and peers make awkward small talk during wait for box-office hit Macron

French president fills seats for stylish Royal Gallery speech, after snubbing Farage and meeting the king

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2025

Cross-party body seeks to tackle divisions in wake of 2024 summer riots

Co-chairman and former community secretary Sir Sajid Javid said successive governments had treated social cohesion as a ‘second-tier issue’.

Evening Standard · Jun 24, 2025

‘I don’t want my brother to just be a number’: How Netflix’s powerful Grenfell film sheds new light on the tragedy

IN FOCUS: As Netflix releases a powerful new documentary about the blaze that took 72 lives at Grenfell Tower in 2017, Hannah J Davies speaks to a man who lost a close relative in the fire, as well as the film’s director and a journalist who’s spent years reporting on…

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2025

The legacy of the Grenfell fire: 'People who lived in that tower were nothing to those in charge'

Eight years after the disaster, a new Netflix documentary aims to unpack what happened. We spoke to one of the families who are still waiting for justice

Evening Standard · Jun 18, 2025

‘Grenfell should make us all uncomfortable’: Olaide Sadiq on making Grenfell: Uncovered

The maker of Netflix documentary about the fire reflects on a very avoidable tragedy and the injustices attested to by former PM, Theresa May

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2025

Why Starmer must stand up to Trump at crucial G7 summit

NEWS ANALYSIS: As The Independent’s political editor David Maddox flies with Sir Keir Starmer to the G7 summit in Canada, he reflects on how the UK prime minister can learn from a diplomatic gaffe last time he was in North America

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2025

No Madame Tussauds waxwork for Starmer over fears he will become 'irrelevant' despite replicas for other PMs

Attraction currently has no plans to make a figure of the prime minister, a spokesperson for the museum said

Evening Standard · Jun 4, 2025

Leaked emails and fallouts with the Camerons: the biggest revelations from Sarah Vine's new political memoir

Run-ins with Jeremy Clarkson, partying in Ibiza and death threats in the post — Sarah Vine’s new memoir is full of details about life on the frontline of politics

Evening Standard · Jun 2, 2025