Emmanuel Macron has responded after Liz Truss refused to say if he was a “friend or foe” during the penultimate Conservative leadership hustings on Thursday. Asked if Mr Macron, the French president and leader of the UK’s closest neighbour, was a “friend or foe”, the Conservative leadership race frontrunner replied: “The jury is out.” She
Month: August 2022
Liz Truss refused to say if Emmanuel Macron is a “friend or foe” during the penultimate leadership hustings which also saw her take aim at “extremely boring” Keir Starmer. The foreign secretary did not pull any punches when faced with quick-fire questions from TalkTV host Julia Hartley-Brewer at the event in Norwich. Asked if the French
The family of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel have appealed for people to “do the right thing” to help find out “who took our baby away from us”. Olivia was shot in her home in Liverpool on Monday night and a huge murder investigation is now under way to track down her killer. In a statement, her
Channel 4 has won the coveted channel of the year award at the Edinburgh TV Festival awards – despite the looming threat of privatisation. Earlier this year, Culture Minister Nadine Dorries announced that she would be pushing ahead with the sale, claiming that government ownership of the channel was “holding it back” from competing with
A research team in the UK and US has created “synthetic” mouse embryos that went on to develop a brain, a nerve cord and beating heart tissue in the lab without the need for a fertilised egg or uterus for it to grow in. It is similar to a breakthrough by an Israeli team, published
The business secretary has warned Royal Mail that a Czech billionaire’s bid to raise his stake in the company faces a national security investigation. The news was revealed by Royal Mail in a notification to the London Stock Exchange, saying that Kwasi Kwarteng “reasonably suspects” that Vesa Equity Investment might increase its stake from 22%
Millions of households will see their energy bills rocket as the price cap is hiked to £3,549 a year, plunging many into financial hardship. The record 80% October increase, announced by the regulator Ofgem, will see a typical default tariff customer paying an extra £1,578, laying bare the deepening cost of living crisis. The rise
Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia’s military to expand with another 137,000 personnel starting from next year. The announcement by the Russian president came a day after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine reached its six-month mark. Moscow has not revealed any losses in the conflict since the first weeks, but Western officials and the Kyiv government believe
Strictly winner Rose Ayling-Ellis says there is “no truth” in rumours she is about to join Doctor Who as Ncuti Gatwa’s companion. Speaking to Sky News at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the former EastEnders star said: “I think it was a rumour which started on Twitter, and it just got bigger and bigger and now
The heartbroken family, community and friends of Olivia Pratt-Korbel have shared memories of the playful Liverpool schoolgirl as they described her as “one in a million” and “a little ray of sunshine” with a “heart of gold”. Her family on Wednesday evening released three photographs of the nine-year-old, while relatives also shared images and videos
Uvalde’s district police chief has been sacked over the hesitant response by hundreds of heavily armed law enforcement officers during the May massacre at Robb Elementary School. In a unanimous vote, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s (UCISD) board of trustees dismissed police chief Pete Arredondo, three months to the day after one of the
Harvey Weinstein has been given permission to appeal his rape and sexual assault conviction. The written decision was sent to Weinstein’s lawyers and according to Reuters it contained no details on what grounds may have led to the decision. It means New York state’s highest court will hear arguments from Weinstein‘s lawyers and prosecutors and
The government must increase its energy bills discount by at least 150% or risk pushing millions of households into financial distress. That is the warning from consumer group Which? ahead of Friday’s announcement of the energy price cap for the three months from October. It comes as British Gas announced it will donate 10% of
A pioneering womb cancer test could cut the time taken to diagnose women with the condition and reduce the need for more invasive diagnostic procedures. Research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that low-cost PCR tests that took samples from the cervix or vagina were able to successfully detect womb cancer. Currently in
A rocket attack on a train station in central Ukraine as the country marked its Independence Day has killed 25 people. President Zelenskyy had warned for days that Russian forces might attempt “something particularly cruel” this week. The lethal attack hit the town of Chaplyne in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, he told a meeting of
Rishi Sunak has said it was “wrong to empower scientists” during the pandemic and claimed lockdown “trade-offs” were never properly discussed. In an interview for The Spectator on the “inside story of lockdown”, the former chancellor attacked the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) for having too much influence over government decision-making during the COVID
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