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The Labour party has called for the government to step in to save Liberty Steel from an insolvency that could threaten thousands of supply chain jobs if owner Sanjeev Gupta fails to find a new lender to prop up his metals empire. Gupta is scrambling to refinance his companies, after the collapse of Greensill Capital, […]

The spectacle of Boris Johnson, acme of an old Etonian rugby man, weighing in on the side of football fans against the breakaway European Super League, is a collision of political and sporting cultures that has been brewing for 30 years. The abortive participation in the venture of England’s “big six” clubs, all owned by […]

It had all been going so well. True, there hadn’t been as many questions at his Downing Street press conference on his new anti-virals taskforce as he had hoped, but Boris Johnson could live with that. After all, he’d rather expected most people to be more interested in the ongoing European Super League saga than […]

Plans for White House-style televised press briefings in Downing Street have been axed, after the press secretary picked to front them, Allegra Stratton, was moved to become Boris Johnson’s spokeswoman on the climate change summit Cop26, the Guardian understands. More details soon… The Guardian

The starting gun has been fired. With a pledge to cut the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by 78% by 2035 compared with 1990 levels, Boris Johnson’s government has begun the bidding process that will set the scene for the Cop26 climate talks. As Mr Johnson knows, November’s meeting in Glasgow is a chance for the […]

New smart motorways must have radar technology in place before they open to detect stopped vehicles, the government has announced, in a move some campaigners said did not go far enough to ensure motorists’ safety. The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said Britain’s existing smart motorways would now have the technology retrofitted by September 2022, six […]

People with mild Covid-19 could take a pill or capsule at home to prevent the illness turning serious and requiring hospital treatment, under government plans to fast-track development of treatments for the disease. The government is launching an antivirals taskforce to find at least two drugs by the autumn that people can take to stop […]

Barney Ronay is so right in highlighting that greed is the motivating force behind the plans for a European Super League, and is also at the heart of past and current Conservative politics and economic policy, from Margaret Thatcher to Boris Johnson (Power grab in a pandemic: how absence of fans gave greedy owners their […]

The UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, must radically overhaul the Treasury’s response to the climate crisis, reforming the department’s longstanding hostility to green spending and resetting its priorities, experts said. The Treasury is poised to introduce its long-awaited review of the government’s net zero strategy, and its recommendations will help determine whether the UK meets stringent […]

Endemic sleaze is indeed engulfing this government and degrading our public realm, but Jonathan Freedland does his case against Boris Johnson no good by including a cheap swipe at Unite (This is Tory sleaze. Don’t let Boris Johnson convince you otherwise, 16 April). Our Birmingham conference facility was authorised by our elected executive council. An […]

The Charity Commission is considering whether to investigate a leading race equality thinktank after claims from Conservative MPs that it is pursuing a political agenda. More than a dozen Tories have written to the commission demanding an investigation into the Runnymede Trust over its criticism of the Sewell report into racial disparities in the UK. […]

Johnny Mercer is on the brink of quitting as a junior defence minister, frustrated that the government has failed to implement controversial pledges to prevent veterans who served in Northern Ireland from being prosecuted. News of the intention emerged as ministers made a significant concession on the related overseas operations bill, agreeing to drop plans […]

Filling in the census recently, I hesitated before choosing British over English from the menu of national identities. The correct answer is both. Team GB for the Olympics, England for the World Cup. After that, it gets hard to separate the different cultural elements that connect me to the country in which I was born […]

A trickle of festival cancellations is poised to “become a flood”, with more than nine in 10 independent events privately indicating they may not go ahead, senior industry figures have said, after Boomtown festival became the third in a week to cancel. Boomtown’s announcement on Tuesday morning came days after the arts festival Shambala and […]

A viable explosive device has been found under the vehicle of a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in County Derry. The woman targeted is a member of staff who also serves as a part-time police officer. The device was found outside her home in a rural area close to Dungiven. A […]

There is a telling passage in David Cameron’s statement in defence of his lobbying for Greensill Capital: “Part of my motivation for accepting the role was my desire to work for a UK-based, entrepreneurial, early-stage finance and technology venture, rather than simply work with larger, more well-known financial institutions.” How thoroughly modern of him, choosing […]