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This blog is now closed.Optus network outage may have been caused by same issue that brought Facebook down in 2021Optus service outage at a glance: what we know so farWhat’s been hit by the Optus network going down: from train services to wifi cat feed…
Cabinet Office’s Simon Case told cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill: ‘I’ve never seen people less well-equipped to run a country’The two most senior civil servants in the UK exchanged messages describing those inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street as “pois…
Exclusive: Suppliers for firm linked to UK peer Michelle Mone helped source Covid masks for Australian government that were found unusableSuppliers of PPE for a company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone were also involved during the Covid p…
Labour party leader criticises speech as ‘admission that government has no faith in Britain’s ability to avert decline’Here is Ben Quinn’s guide to what will be in the king’s speech.In a statement about the king’s speech issued overnight, Keir Starmer …
Then PM made joke about Rishi Sunak’s department because of its focus on lifting restrictions, according to diary entriesUK politics live – latest updatesBoris Johnson referred to Rishi Sunak’s Treasury as “the pro-death squad” as he sought to gain sup…
Government aiming to limit rights of railway workers, ambulance staff and border officials to go on strikeRishi Sunak has not accepted that Suella Braverman’s description of rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” was offensive – although he declined to…
Exclusive: Tory peer and husband, Douglas Barrowman, had repeatedly denied roles in firm given £200m government Covid contractsThe Conservative peer Michelle Mone has acknowledged for the first time that she was involved with a company that was awarded…
Ex-PM in written evidence to Covid inquiry admits being torn over first lockdown due to the economic harm it would cause the UKBoris Johnson has defended himself against accusations of indecision during the pandemic, telling the Covid inquiry in eviden…
‘Fortunately this horrible dilemma never crystallised,’ former NHS England head Simon Stevens tells inquiry Former health secretary Matt Hancock told officials that he – rather than the medical profession – “should ultimately decide who should live or …
This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here O’Connor asks Stevens if people tried to force him out of his job during Covid.Stevens says that is not what people were saying to him at the time. Continue reading…