Politics
Ministers planning overseas hiring spree to save care homes
Steve Barclay, the health secretary. is drawing up plans to bring in foreign staff "on a mass scale".
Liz Truss mocks BBC to sidestep question about controversial report she co-wrote
The Tory leadership favourite evaded answering a question about the Back to Black pamphlet by suggesting the BBC does not get ‘facts right’.
Rishi Sunak lets ‘man of the people’ guise slip with football comments
He's such a "massive football fan" that he forgot who his club is playing this weekend..
Banks raking in billions by not to passing on benefits of rising interest rates
Britain's biggest banks have not passed on the gains of interest rate risers to savers, earning them billions.
Water companies leaked one TRILLION litres through faulty pipes
Water companies lost nearly 3,000 litres of water every day in 2021-22, new figures have revealed.
Shapps mocked for totally botching train timetables on telly
Even the BBC Breakfast Twitter account felt compelled to correct the transport secretary.
Asda boss bashes Boris for being ‘on shore leave’ during crisis
"Nobody's in charge at the moment," Lord Stuart Rose lamented.
Tories to hire ‘thousands’ of foreign nurses amid care home staffing crisis
Steve Barclay reportedly wants to hire nurses from India and the Philippines to staff care homes this winter.
Finland’s dancing PM hits out at leak of ‘private’ party footage
Sanna Marin has also said she would be willing to take a drugs test if necessary.