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Boris Johnson meets with Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Independence Day More

Liz Truss presided over cuts to Environment Agency funding which “doubled sewage discharge”, it has been claimed.According to Labour Party analysis, raw sewage discharge has more than doubled since 2016, when the Tory leadership hopeful was environment secretary.This rose from 1.47 per overflow six years ago to 29.3 in 2021, according to the analysis of official figures. More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Soaring energy and food bills will create a “huge mental health crisis” this winter putting further strain on services and risking “people’s life chances”, NHS leaders have warned. As household […] More

‘Catastrophic winter’ ahead for households as bills soar, energy boss warns More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Boris Johnson has told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky he “will win” the war against Russia as he made another surprise visit to Kyiv to mark the country’s independence day. The caretaker prime […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Language used by the government during its Covid-19 briefings throughout the pandemic was “vague, slippery and ambiguous” so as to reduce accountability, a new study has found. Researchers from Nottingham […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Matt Hancock has become the first MP to join the Metaverse, the virtual reality platform launched by Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg. The former Tory health secretary shared his personalised avatar […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Rishi Sunak has questioned whether Liz Truss’s economic policies are truly Thatcherite – as the pair of Tory leadership contenders compete to associate themselves with the former prime minister. Citing […] More