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18 February 2023 9:00 am

Portrait of the week: Rishi reshuffles, Truss talks and a trigger warning for Shakespeare’s Globe

11 February 2023 9:00 am

Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, rearranged the deck chairs. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was broken…

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4 February 2023 9:00 am

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28 January 2023 9:00 am

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18 January 2023 10:00 pm

Portrait of the week: Harry’s confessions, house prices fall and Cornish space launch fails

14 January 2023 9:00 am

Home Government ministers held short meetings with trade union representatives as strikes continued by ambulance drivers, teachers, bus drivers and…

Portrait of the year: Russia invades Ukraine, the Queen dies and Britain gets through three prime ministers

17 December 2022 9:00 am

January The first day of the year reached 16.3°C in St James’s Park, London. In France, 874 cars were set…

Portrait of the week: Christmas rail strikes, Lady Hussey’s resignation and Indonesia’s sex ban

10 December 2022 9:00 am

Home The RMT union decided to add a couple of rail strikes just before and after Christmas to those planned.…

Portrait of the week: Eggs rationed, hosepipe ban lifted and Supreme Court rejects Scotland’s referendum bid

26 November 2022 9:00 am

Home The Supreme Court ruled that the Scottish government does not have the power to hold an independence referendum without…

Portrait of the week: Williamson resigns, nurses strike and Norwegian royal quits

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Home Sir Gavin Williamson resigned from the cabinet as minister without portfolio following publication of texts he had sent (annoyed…

Portrait of the week: A migrant crisis in Manston, elections for Northern Ireland and Matt Hancock heads for the jungle

5 November 2022 9:00 am

Home Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, spoke in the Commons of an ‘invasion on our southern coast’ by migrants in…

Portrait of the week: Sunak in No. 10, pasta gets pricier and Russia hits Ukraine’s energy grid

29 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Rishi Sunak, aged 42, became Prime Minister. At the weekend Boris Johnson had flown back from a holiday in…

Portrait of the week: Truss says sorry, Hunt reverses mini-Budget and Kanye West buys Parler

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Liz Truss said in a BBC interview as Prime Minister that she wanted to ‘say sorry for the mistakes…

Portrait of the Week: the gilt market, Larry the Cat and Iranian protests

15 October 2022 9:00 am

Home The Bank of England warned of a ‘material risk’ to financial stability as it stepped in to buy a…

Portrait of the week: Tory party conference, gas supply warning and Denmark’s royals stripped of titles

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Liz Truss, the Prime Minister, came up with a message for the Conservative party conference: ‘Whenever there is change,…

Portrait of the week: Chancellor unveils his unBudget, Hilary Mantel dies and corgi prices soar

1 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Kwasi Kwarteng, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a far-reaching ‘fiscal event’ (ineligible to be called a Budget), said…