Politics
Longer jail terms don’t cut crime, minister admits amid crime bill backlash
The Good Law Project said the controversial new bill was an attempt to "silence dissent".
Hereditary Tory peer claims nurses have ‘enviable’ job security amid pay backlash
Health minister Lord Bethell - who is entitled to sit in the House of Lords until his death - defended the pay proposal, blasted as “paltry” by health unions, because NHS workers have “secure jobs”.
Test and Trace has made ‘no measurable difference’ despite having ‘unimaginable resources’
Rachel Reeves said the system had "failed the British people and led our country into restrictive lockdown after lockdown”.
The Daily Express asks: Should Nigel Farage be knighted?
Should Nigel Farage be knighted for his services to British politics? The Daily Express wants you to vote.
Accused of ‘corruption’, government urged to publish suspect Covid contracts
Answering the accusations in the Commons was a health minister who used to work as a lobbyist for Serco.
Nigel Farage trolled less than 24 hours after joining celebrity shoutout service
It was only a matter of time!
Sunak ‘believes nurses are worth less now’ than pre-coronavirus, Labour says
Anneliese Dodds, the shadow chancellor, accused Sunak of undervaluing nurses as the NHS pay rise row continues.
British goods export plummet by £54bn – and Brexit will hinder recovery
The UK suffered a 14.7 per cent fall in goods exports - one of the largest slumps of any major country - in 2020.
Was he out of order? Drakeford criticised over his comments about Boris Johnson
He also described his relationship with the Prime Minister as “remote”, saying they had only met once in person, before adding the pair “rarely have a meeting of minds”.