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The reduction in her sentence of detention from 33 years to 27 is hardly likely to appease her supporters inside or outside her country" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Prime minister Rishi Sunak during his visit to the Shell St Fergus gas plant in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Ignoring medical advice is usually harmful" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) ought to scrutinise claims more carefully" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
People are not risking their lives in the Channel because they hope to be put up in a four-star hotel" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Michael Gove paints an attractive picture about redeveloping British cities, but he stops extremely short of a plan of how to get there" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Ulez became the defining issue of the Uxbridge by-election " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The PM should resist pressure from his colleagues to take the fight to Labour on wider issues" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Mental health care remains something that is still regarded as far too distinct from physical illness " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The few simple but touching words from President Biden’s press secretary, Karina Jean-Pierre, at the latest White House press briefing, represent the best hope of justice for the airman " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The damage to the bridge along with the loss of Russian lives was plainly too much for Vladimir Putin to bear" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
It is, at this point, very clearly Starmer’s election to lose" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
If the Conservatives promise to abolish inheritance tax, they will be asked: ‘How will you pay for it?’ " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The airman fought alongside British and allied forces against the Taliban " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The UK alone cannot fight cold wars simultaneously with Russia and China" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
A fairer approach would be to make a more progressive fiscal policy – taxes on the better off" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak meet at No 10 on Monday " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
There is no doubt this is a crisis for the organisation" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The corporation must retain its financial independence from the government " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
This injustice ought to be ameliorated in the next Budget" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Who is steering the Tory ship? Rishi Sunak faces more infighting " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The threat of full-blown xenophobia taking over French politics is more real now than it has ever been" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The health secretary Steve Barclay has launched a public inquiry into mental health deaths across Essex" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Braverman seems unable to work out that the best way to deal with refugees is to process them as rapidly as possible" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The president’s divide and rule strategy has come back to bite him" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The Ukrainians and their supporters around the world should not get too excited " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Ministers need to do more than scapegoating " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The most helpful thing the politicians can do is to support the Bank, not interfere" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
In such circumstances, support for the sanctions on Johnson should have been unanimous " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The average two-year fixed-rate mortgage on the market has topped 6 per cent for the first time this year" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Boris Johnson " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
This pilot is more than a refugee " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
In the humiliating light of the rejection of his claim, the pilot is in despair, and it is entirely the fault of British bureaucracy" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Rishi Sunak has dug into the Tory civil war by accusing Boris Johnson of asking him to take action that ‘wasn’t right’ in discussions of the former prime minister’s honours list" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
There is absolutely no one left who could possibly ever trust him" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Johnson risks undermining people’s confidence in our parliamentary democracy" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Rachel Reeves is the first figure in her party to display such flinty resolve since the heyday of Gordon Brown" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Confidence in the police needs to be rebuilt from the ground up" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Towns and villages have been flooded after the Nova Kakhovka dam was breached" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Prince Harry is also prosecuting the media in a very different forum – the court of public opinion" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The PM speaking during a press conference at Western Jet Foil processing centre in Dover on Monday" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
No jurisdiction in the world has adopted a basic income, not least because of the resentment it usually provokes among the better off " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The Labour MP Geraint Davies is facing misconduct allegations and remains suspended by his party " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Boris Johnson has said that if the government tries to redact his submissions, he will give the material directly to the inquiry " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Too many of the places in which refugees are held are still substandard" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Home secretary Suella Braverman says the plans ‘strike the right balance’" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Zainab’s suffering is a reminder that rich and poor live cheek by jowl in some parts of this country " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The British government is dancing on the head of a pin over the definition of the work this pilot was involved in" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Why gum up Britain’s already sclerotic and over-detailed planning system further? " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Michael Heseltine is well qualified to judge the record of the past few disastrous years, and the man who has done so much to shape them " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Anti-immigrant rhetoric undermines confidence in politicians and politics generally" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
To the public, Suella Braverman simply looks arrogant and hypocritical – one rule for her; another for everyone else" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The law should apply equally to all " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Just because we have been here before does not make our prison system any less shameful " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Despite signs of wobbling from Emmanuel Macron during his recent trip to Beijing, Volodymyr Zelensky should be reassured that he can still rely on the West to resist Russian territorial expansion in Europe" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Donna Ockenden, chair of the review, has rightly warned that only a fraction of the Black and Asian women potentially affected by shortcomings in care have come forward" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
There will be more wars because of conflicts over water and access to natural resources, more human migration to escape famine and poverty, and more economic disruption" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
It makes a change from the curiously parochial and simplistic approach that his home secretary, Suella Braverman, brings to the challenge " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Sting, one of the foremost musicians of his age, has added his voice to the calls for justice" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The local elections have left the Tories at a fork in the road" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Mark Harper has dropped the pretence that the government had no role" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The war has settled into a pattern of attrition, pending the long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Is the Bank being too impatient and running the risk of overdoing it?" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
If the Church cannot pronounce on questions of morality, it might as well shut up shop" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Brexit imposes a cost on everyone in Britain" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Mayor Vitali Klitschko visits a home in Kyiv damaged by debris from an intercepted drone" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The King has never been afraid to try to address some of the big issues this country is facing " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Our view has always been that a constitutional monarchy is better than any plausible alternative" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Mixed fortunes: Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
The dangers are clear " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Electoral Commission data in 2019 showed that 25 per cent of Black and Asian Britons were not registered to vote" class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
RCN members could still take strike action, but ministers may feel they have the upper hand " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">
Sudan’s army and its rival paramilitary say they will extend a humanitarian ceasefire by another 72 hours as of midnight following international pressure " class="sc-x0y1rx-0 gqkeBM sc-16hurdz-3 ebHVtr">