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Tories sell access to their next Chancellor at ‘Business Day’ for £2,990 a head
Tory chiefs are selling access to their new Chancellor for £2,990 a head, it emerged tonight. The party has attached the eye-watering price tag to tickets for a ‘Business Day’ at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. Its…
Boris Johnson warns Brits must ‘endure tough winter’ to keep supporting Ukraine
Brits must “endure” a “tough winter” in the cost-of-living crisis to continue supporting war-torn Ukraine, Boris Johnson said today. The Prime Minister suggested high energy bills were a price worth paying to stop Russia wiping out the…
Electricity bills will be FROZEN all winter – but only if you live on the Isle of Man
Electricity bills will be FROZEN all winter - but only in one small part of the British Isles.The Isle of Man, the self-governing Crown Dependency of 84,000 people in the Irish Sea, will fund the landmark move with a scheme like one being…
‘Demented’ plan to prescribe energy discount set to send 614 patients to each GP
Plans to send Brits to their GP to get a discount on energy bills would leave each family doctor dealing with more than 600 patients in fuel poverty. The idea, which was branded "demented" by critics, is one of several cost of living…
‘We’re entering the eye of a storm and Boris Johnson has abandoned the ship’
It feels like we’re drowning. Our energy bills are through the roof, fuel prices have soared, sewage is flooding our waters, ancient diseases are rearing their ugly heads. All I’m hearing on social media is how we need to stock up on food…
Routine Covid tests for hospital patients scrapped next week after two years
People arriving at hospitals and care homes will no longer be tested for Covid unless they have symptoms from the end of the month, it has been announced.Health chiefs say that a fall in cases and fatalities due to the virus mean wider…
In Kyiv, Johnson announced the allocation of £54 million aid to Ukraine. He said: you can and will…
from Jonson's Twitter
The Prime Minister has travelled to Kyiv today in a show of strength and solidarity with Ukraine as he tells President Zelenskyy his country ‘can and will win the war’.
As part of the visit, his third to the…
Summer of discontent as UK hit by huge energy bills, axed flights and strike delays
Brits are bracing themselves for a summer of discontent amid strikes, rising bills and flight cancellations.Workers are staging walkouts across the country as they demand proper pay rises to help them cope with spiralling inflation rates.…
Boris Johnson makes final visit to Kyiv as PM saying Ukraine ‘can win war’
Boris Johnson has been pictured in Ukrainian capital Kyiv today, six months after Vladimir Putin's forces commenced their brutal invasion. The Prime Minister, who has less than two weeks in office, said he was optimistic that Ukraine can…
Energy firms slammed over ‘callous’ rule that can take £9 of every £10 you put on meter
Thousands of poor families are topping up their energy meters by £10 - only for £9 of it to be clawed back in debt.Damning figures show almost 300,000 people with pre-payment meters may be having debts taken off their top-up payments by…