Hunt claims economy, and government’s fiscal position, much better than Labour says Jeremy Hunt, the shadow chancellor, is speaking at the conference hall now. He is being interviewed by Daniel Finkelstein, the Times columnist and Tory peer. Hunt says Rachel Reeves’ claim that the Tories left the worst economic inheritance since the war is one […]
A mere three days after being elected as the new leader of Japan’s ruling party, incoming Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced plans for a snap election on 27 October. Ishiba, 67, replaced outgoing prime minister, Fumio Kishida, as chief of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Friday, following a tight race that saw him […]
Record high inflation was caused by the Bank of England keeping interest rates too low for too long, according to its former head. Lord Mervyn King said inflation has now been tamed, but criticised all central banks for failing to act fast enough initially. Speaking to BBC Radio Four’s Broadcasting House ahead of the Budget […]
Getty Images The provision of PPE for healthcare workers is being explored in this part of the Covid inquiry (stock image) The chair of the Covid inquiry has refused an application from the UK Health Security Agency to keep the identities of two junior clinicians secret. Lawyers for UKHSA applied for an order preventing publication […]
The government is to tighten transparency rules for ministerial hospitality, after a row over freebies received by Labour ministers. Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden told the BBC ministers would now have to declare hospitality linked to their government job in their MP’s register too. This information is currently published by departments, but less frequently and […]
SpaceX has launched its mission to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) since June. The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday. The pair’s mission at the space station had only been expected to last about […]
Michelle Sword told the BBC she was “heartbroken” that she had “done something so stupid” A mother of two who nearly died after taking a fraudulent weight loss injection is urging others to be careful about what they buy online. Michelle Sword, 46, from Carterton, Oxfordshire, ordered the slimming drug from an online beauty company […]
Getty Images A lot of us have been there, locked in a metal cylinder flying at more than 500mph (804km/h), gritting our teeth about the armrest the person to the left is hogging. Or the person next to the window who keeps getting up to go to the toilet, or the person in front who […]
Hospitals need to review any child treated by bone surgeon Yaser Jabbar, a solicitor representing affected families has told the BBC. The lower limb reconstruction surgeon worked at private hospital The Portland, as well as seeing NHS patients at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust Hospitals and Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) in London. A damning […]
The first party conference after a defeat generally tends to be a cross between a wake, an inquest, and a beauty contest for those who believe they have the answers to what went wrong. The Conservatives’ gathering in Birmingham is set to be no different – but with a particular emphasis on the third. So […]