Exclusive: in unusual move, PM and Kwasi Kwarteng will meet fiscal watchdog after mini-budget sparked investor panic Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget: key points at a glanceAll …
Bank of England takes urgent steps to buy long-dated UK government bonds Business live updates: pound tumbles despite Bank move The Bank of England has …
Government support includes measure reducing price paid for gas and electricity from 1 October Businesses have been given an emergency package of government support including …
Chancellor to bring in winter tax cuts and announce further energy support at end of mourning period Kwasi Kwarteng will deliver his emergency mini-budget to …
Officials’ proposed measures include national insurance cuts and pause to green levies The Treasury is working on a menu of options to counter Britain’s cost …
Olympic champion reveals she is being treated for sepsis, kidney infection and fever after miscarriage The Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington has had emergency surgery after …
Ofgem announcement will ‘strike fear’ into hearts, says Rachel Reeves, amid accusations of profiteering at oil and gas firms The energy regulator is set to …
Former chancellor suggests rival’s plan for dealing with UK crisis is implausible The rightwing Conservative MP John Redwood has welcomed Liz Truss’s refusal to commit …
Former PM has warned of a financial timebomb awaiting families as Labour plans a major intervention to address crisis Boris Johnson and the Tory leadership …
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says support will not be introduced until ministers return to work The UK business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has admitted it will …
Move will trigger extra resources and other measures to combat virus as health secretary urges ‘every American to take it seriously’ The Biden administration has …
The U.S. will declare a public health emergency to bolster the federal response to the outbreak of monkeypox that already has infected more than 6,600 …
£250m desalination facility set up 12 years ago in Beckton is out of action amid doubts over supply capabilities A £250m desalination plant launched 12 …
Hosepipe ban and compulsory water metering needed, say advisers, as nation braces for drought A national hosepipe ban should be implemented as a national priority …
California city has recorded 261 cases so far and declaration will allow authorities to mobilize more staff and resources San Francisco officials announced a state …
Monkeypox has officially been declared a “global health emergency” by the World Health Organisation (WHO), after an outbreak in more than 70 countries.
Declaration is strongest call to action agency can make, with most recent such announcement being for Covid The global monkeypox outbreak has been declared a …
Report says global south has been ‘used as place to dump waste’ and that people of colour are suffering disproportionately The climate and ecological crises …
Declaration called ‘expedient’ as Ranil Wickremesinghe tries to curb unrest over ongoing political and economic crises Sri Lanka’s acting president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has declared a …
Prime minister stays at Chequers as NHS, schools and transport providers issue warnings about fatally high temperatures Boris Johnson was accused on Saturday of being …
Heatwave arriving on Sunday expected to bring most extreme hot weather ever recorded in UK The UK government has issued the first ever national emergency …
Cabinet Office minister Kit Malthouse is to chair meeting of the Government’s Cobra civil contingencies committee on the heatwave, Downing Street has said.
Five areas have experienced unusually early heatwave and lack of rainfall, in particular the Po valley Italy has declared a state of emergency in five …