Labor backbenchers are showing patience in public despite their frustrations in private. But voters have no reason to be so loyal.
Australian politician Peta Murphy has died after a battle with breast cancer at the age of 50.
Repeated requests to join meetings in early 2020 were refused, London and Greater Manchester mayors say.
Greater Manchester mayor says Boris Johnson seemed unaware his region had been under tougher rules Boris Johnson appeared to have no idea that Greater Manchester had spent months under tougher Covid restrictions than London, Andy Burnham has said, arguing that this exemplified an over-centralised approach to the pandemic.Giving evidence to the inquiry into Covid, Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, said he felt his region was given a “punishment beating” with less financial support after...
Ex-health secretary tells Covid inquiry Joe Anderson ‘no longer with us’
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been heavily criticised for a social media post boasting about the fall in the gender pay gap, as fed-up Aussies vent their frustrations amid the cost of living crisis.
Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast‘We have been very clear from day one that we oppose antisemitism’: BandtAdam Bandt is asked about a photo the Greens senator and deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi put on her social media, and then took down. In the photo, Faruqi is posing with pro-Palestinian protesters, one of whom is holding a poster which showed an image of Israel being put in a rubbish bin. Faruqi took down the image and issued an...
Follow the day’s news liveLate MP Peta Murphy remembered as ‘brave and loved’ by Anthony Albanese in emotional tributeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAssistant climate change minister asked whether Australia ‘can be taken seriously’ without fossil fuel phase-out promiseThe assistant minister for climate change and energy, Jenny McAllister, was also making the rounds this morning amid the Cop28 summit.We, of course, are working towards transforming our...
Boris Johnson told friends he is puzzled about why the hearings are not examining whether the virus' origins were natural or as a result of an accidental leak.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency quietly deleted a video posted in June 2021 that encouraged Americans to report their family members to social media platforms for spreading “disinformation” online regarding COVID, a Tuesday report from the Foundation for Freedom Online revealed.The FFO, which archived a copy of the “dystopian” video, accused the DHS’ CISA of attempting to hide evidence that it supports censorship in online discourse. The...
In evidence handed to the Covid Inquiry, Mr Khan told the then prime minister he would 'speak directly to Londoners with a tougher message' if Mr Johnson decided not to tell people to stay at home.
Ex-PM is scheduled to be questioned for two days: here are the main points