Nearly £1bn will be available immediately to fund "vital new kit" - including beds - and an additional £850m, spent over five years, will be used to upgrade 20 hospitals in England.more
Schools may have to close, exams could be disrupted and fresh food for pupils' meals could run short because of panic buying with prices soaring by up to 20%, according to a secret Department for Education analysis of the risks of a no-deal Brexit obtained by the Observer.more
Poll conducted by Lord Ashcroft Polls - days after Boris Johnson, the new prime minister, visited Scotland - puts support for independence at 46 per cent for and 43 per cent against.more
MPS are too late to prevent a no-deal Brexit, Boris Johnson's most senior aide has said. Dominic Cummings told ministers and officials that the Prime Minister will honour his October 31 pledge even if Jeremy Corbyn and pro-Remain Conservatives succeed in forcing a general election.more
The Home Office has spent a quarter of a million pounds on charter flights to deport people in the last three months without a single plane leaving the runway in that period, it has been revealed.more
The pro-European British Liberal Democrats won the Thursday's general election in the Welsh district of Brecon and Radnorshire, taking over the mandate from the Conservative Party and reducing the parliamentary majority of Boris Johnson's government to just one seat.more
Britain has a one in three chance of plunging into recession at the start of next year as the heightened uncertainty over Brexit drags down the economy, the Bank of England has warned.more
Residents of Welsh electoral district Brecon and Radnorshire are voting today in the supplementary election to the House of Commons. A possible defeat for the mandate of the Conservative Party may limit its parliamentary majority to just one vote.more
French commentators, generally very critical of the new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, argue that he formed a government "seeking revenge for swindlers". Some hope, however, that Johnson will move away from his extreme approach.more
The UK's Brexit minister Stephen Barclay spoke to the European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier on Tuesday and told him he wants a deal but will leave the bloc on Oct. 31 with or without one.more
The new European Commission, headed by Ursula von der Leyen, will have a difficult start - media in Spain expect. They indicate today that the main challenge in the first weeks will be her hard Brexit, announced by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will move into Downing Street with his 24-year-old younger girlfriend Carrie Symonds - confirmed by the government's press service. This is the first time the head of the UK government will live with a partner before marriage.more
France on Thursday adopted a tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook despite U.S. threats to use a favorite tool of the Trump administration: tariffs. The administration says it could invoke the same 1970s-era laws it used to slap tariffs on imports from China and other trading partners, including traditional U.S. allies. more
Prime minister Boris Johnson's government is planning a reported £100m public-information advertising splurge to prepare the UK for the increasingly likely prospect of a no-deal Brexit, according to The Sunday Telegraph.more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was taken from jail to hospital suffering an allergic reaction could have been exposed to an "unknown chemical substance", his doctor said.more
The European Union will not be "bullied" into compromising its principles, according to German parliamentarian and former environment minister Norbert Roettgen, a key ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, said in a warning to Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson. more
The devastating toll of false claims made by a former nurse who fabricated allegations about a murderous VIP paedophile ring in Westminster has been laid bare as he was jailed for 18 years.more
