Opposition day debate seeks to establish committee to investigate reforming tax benefits enjoyed by independent schoolsLabour will attempt to force a binding vote on ending private schools’ tax breaks and use the £1.7bn a year raised from this to drive…
MPs and peers should declare links to firms they back for contracts, says NAO
Exclusive: After the Michelle Mone scandal and PPE questions, National Audit Office says monitoring conflicts of interest is ‘crucial’Peers and MPs should have to declare any links to firms they recommend for contracts even in an emergency such as the …
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Shipment Of Uranium Has Been Seized At Heathrow Airport Sparking ‘Dirty Bomb’ Fears
The undeclared material was discovered on December 29 on a passenger flight which arrived from Oman © Provided by Daily Mail Daily Mail: Dirty bomb fears as ‘several kilos of URANIUM’ is found in cargo at Heathrow: Package ‘shipped from Pakist…
Russia-Ukraine war: Putin replaces general in charge of Russian forces in Ukraine – as it happened
This live blog has now closed, you can read more on this story herePolitico reports that Germany is facing pressure from France and Poland to supply Ukraine with the powerful Leopard 2 tanks.Politico reports:Supplying modern western tanks such as the L…
Your Wednesday Briefing
At least 17 more civilians have died in extraordinary violence in Peru.
More than 100 Rohingya refugees jailed for trying to flee Myanmar camps
Children among those arrested last month as they waited for transport to take them to MalaysiaMore than 110 Rohingya have been sentenced to prison by a military-backed court in Myanmar for attempting to escape refugee camps without the proper paperwork…
‘Total mess’ in China’s rural areas as Covid wave hits hard
Since China reversed its zero-Covid policy last month, a whirlwind of cases has crammed hospitals with elderly patients and sparked a free-for-all over limited supplies of medicine. The crisis was more acute in the county town of Fengyang, where AFP sa…
Harry denies boasting about Taliban kills as he cautions against ‘spin’
Harry has shared frank admissions in his book of losing his virginity to an older woman in a field as a teenager and taking drugs