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Carillion crashes owing £1.5 billion: directors’ conduct is probed
Home Carillion, the construction and service-provider with 20,000 employees and many contracts for the public sector, went into liquidation with…
The Cabinet reshuffle that exploded in Theresa May’s face
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, tried to shuffle her cabinet, but Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, refused to become…
Death in the streets as anti-government unrest sweeps Iran
Home In a message for the New Year, as though it were an immemorial custom, Theresa May, the Prime Minister,…
A portrait of 2017: Brexit stumbled forward, Big Ben was silenced and sexual allegations swept the world
January ‘No deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain,’ Theresa May, the Prime Minister, declared in…
DUP’s 11th-hour objection throws Brexit deal into chaos
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, was thrown into a political crisis, along with the negotiations for Brexit, during a…
Prince Harry announces his engagement to US actress Meghan Markle
Home The engagement was announced of Prince Henry of Wales, aged 33, and the Los Angeles-born Meghan Markle, an actress…
Britain agrees to offer the EU a £40 billion divorce payment for Brexit
Home The cabinet, including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, agreed that the European Union would have to be offered something…
The Brexit Bill faces 470 amendments on its way through Parliament
Home As the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill faced 470 amendments in its examination by a committee of the whole House,…
Sexual misconduct claims leave government in crisis
Home An air of crisis hung over the government. Priti Patel, the International Development Secretary, was told to fly back…
Rumours of sexual misconduct swirl around Westminster
Home A great ferment of accusations of sexual impropriety was made against people in Parliament and out of it. Bex…
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Home Of perhaps 400 Britons returned from the former territory of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, those who…
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Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, and David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, went to Brussels and had dinner with Jean-Claude…
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Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, when asked by Iain Dale in an interview on LBC: ‘If there was a…
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Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, told her audience at the Conservative party conference that she wanted to continue, like…
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Home Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, told the party conference that Labour was ‘on the threshold of power’. The party…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, issued a manifesto for a ‘glorious future’ for Britain outside the European Union as…
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Home The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill was given a second reading by 326 votes to 290, with seven Labour MPs…
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Home On being asked if she meant to lead the Conservatives into the next election, due in 2022, Theresa May,…
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Home Big Ben ceased sounding for a planned period of four years, thanks to a decision by the Speaker and…
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Home Regulated rail fares will rise by 3.6 per cent in January, bringing the price of annual tickets from Oxford,…
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Home British negotiators are prepared to pay up to £36 billion to the EU to settle the so-called divorce bill…
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Home Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, appeared to wrest control of plans for Brexit from cabinet rivals, while…
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Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, invited the media to take a photograph of her beginning a holiday with her…
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Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, told MPs before the summer recess: ‘No backbiting, no carping. The choice is me…
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Home In her first big speech since the general election, Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said: ‘I say to the…
