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Sunak's spend now, tax later Budget
Chancellor Rishi Sunak presented his second Budget this week, tearing up Conservative economic orthodoxy with billions of pounds of spending and tax …
4 years, 10 months ago
UK Budget preview and Salmond vs Sturgeon
Rishi Sunak will deliver his second Budget next week, where the chancellor will set out a mission to put the UK's public finances on a sounder footin…
4 years, 10 months ago
Data, not dates, for easing lockdown
Boris Johnson made it clear this week that he will not rush into easing the nationwide lockdown - what will the UK prime minister set out in his road…
4 years, 10 months ago
Held in hotels and is Starmer stalling?
Hotel quarantine will finally be introduced to the UK next week, but can the logistics work? Will it stop new variants of the virus spreading - and a…
4 years, 11 months ago
Vaccine triumphs and the lockdown question
This week the UK faced the prospect of the emergence of new coronavirus mutations while surging past 10m vaccinations. Will this progress speed up th…
4 years, 11 months ago
A plan for exiting Covid lockdown
Boris Johnson set out how England will exit its nationwide lockdown this week, with schools set to reopen in early March but shops and other business…
4 years, 11 months ago
Biden, Boris and Brexit
Joe Biden was inaugurated as the new US president this week - what does it mean for UK-US relations? Can Boris Johnson forge a rapport with him on sh…
4 years, 11 months ago
Enforcing lockdown as vaccines ramp up
The UK's battle against the new strain of Covid-19 has had mixed results this week – deaths continued to be high while infections started to fall. Ar…
5 years ago
Back to national lockdown
UK prime minister Boris Johnson put England into its third lockdown this week, as the new strain of coronavirus risked the health service being overw…
5 years ago
Brexit has arrived
The UK has fully left the EU, ending 47 years of membership. In this Brexit special, we examine the last-minute trade deal that Prime Minister Boris …
5 years ago