Portrait of the week
Portrait of the week
Home The electorate was bombarded with contrary claims by parties beginning campaigns for the election in May. David Cameron, the…
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Home King’s Cross railway station was out of operation, stranding thousands, and Paddington saw badly delayed services after Network Rail…
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January Floods covered 28,000 acres of the Somerset Levels. Ukip suspended an Oxfordshire councillor for saying floods were God’s punishment…
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Home The government spent days announcing how the Autumn Statement would allocate funds. ‘Frontline’ parts of the National Health Service…
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Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, spent a few days announcing things. She broadcast on the Andrew Marr Show on…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said: ‘Red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global…
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Home The government, expecting a backbench rebellion over the European Arrest Warrant, did not present it for a separate vote…
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Home Fiona Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, resigned as the head of an inquiry into historical child sex abuse…
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Home The last British combat troops turned over Camp Bastion in Helmand to Afghan forces and withdrew from Afghanistan after…
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Home A hundred firemen could not prevent wooden cooling towers at Didcot B gas-fuelled power station in Oxfordshire from burning…
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Home Checks began at British airports for passengers who might have come from west Africa with Ebola fever (even though…
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Home Alan Henning, 47, a British volunteer aid worker taken captive in Syria by Islamic State, was murdered, and footage…
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Home The Commons, having been specially recalled, passed, by 524 votes to 43, a motion supporting ‘the use of UK…
Portrait of the week: Cameron visits UN HQ, Scotland checks its bruises, and a Swede sells his submarine
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, visited New York for talks at the United Nations; he said Britain supported the…
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Home People living in Scotland voted in a referendum that asked: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ A great deal…
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Home England suddenly began to take the prospect of Scottish independence seriously after a poll of 1,084 people by YouGov…
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Home Britain’s terror threat level was raised from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’ in response to fighting in Iraq and Syria, meaning…
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Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that Britons who went to Syria or Iraq to fight could be stripped…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, writing of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, said: ‘If we do not act…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, resisted calls for Parliament to be recalled to debate the crisis in Iraq. Philip Hammond,…
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Home The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined 50 heads of state at the St Symphorien cemetery near Mons to…
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Home Britain is to halve to three months the time that EU migrants without realistic job prospects can claim benefits,…
The MH17 disaster
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, told Parliament that President Vladimir Putin of Russia should end his country’s support for…
Portrait of the week: ministerial musical chairs, women bishops, giant snails
Home In a ministerial reshuffle, William Hague, who promised to leave Parliament at the election, was made Leader of the…
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Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, ordered a review, taking perhaps ten weeks, by Peter Wanless, the head of the…
