Nick Triggle,Health correspondent, Jim Reed,Health reporterand Philippa Roxby,Health reporter Getty Images Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the latest five-day strike by doctors in England is “dangerous and utterly irresponsible” and warned them not to abandon patients. The walkout by resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, began at 07:00 on Wednesday. The British … Read more
EPA Sir Keir Starmer has urged resident doctors not to go ahead with “reckless” strikes planned for next week, saying it is “beyond belief” they could take place during a flu outbreak. The prime minister said the NHS is in its “most precarious moment” since the coronavirus pandemic due to soaring flu cases across the … Read more
PA Media Resident doctors, previously known as junior doctors, are set to strike for five days from Friday Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged resident doctors not to follow their union down the “damaging road” of strike action, which is due to begin on Friday. Writing in the Times, Sir Keir said this would cause … Read more
The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland, on their first joint visit to Ukraine, said on Saturday that Russia would face “new and massive” sanctions on its banking and energy sectors if President Vladimir V. Putin refused to agree to a full, unconditional 30-day cease-fire. “All of us are calling Putin out,” Prime Minister … Read more
The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland made their first-ever joint visit to Kyiv on Saturday, in an effort to underscore their support for Ukraine and reinforce calls for Russia to agree to a 30-day cease-fire. During a trip intended to showcase European unity, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, … Read more
For Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, the road to a first-in-the-world trade deal with the United States began on a late winter afternoon when he arrived in the Oval Office, bearing a letter for President Trump. It was from King Charles III, inviting Mr. Trump for a rare second state visit to Britain. It … Read more
Nigel Farage’s insurgent anti-immigration party, Reform U.K., scored a significant, if narrow, victory Friday in a parliamentary special election in the northwest of England, serving notice that Mr. Farage, a populist fixture and close ally of President Trump, is again a rising force in British politics. Reform’s candidate, Sarah Pochin, won by a razor-thin margin … Read more
Eleanor Lawrie Social Affairs Reporter Getty Images Supported housing is in crisis, the open letter says (stock image) Supported housing, which helps vulnerable or disabled people live independently, is in crisis, an open letter signed by more than 170 organisations in the sector claims. Services at one in three providers in England had to shut … Read more
King Charles III flew by helicopter to the H.M.S. Prince of Wales in the English Channel on Tuesday, where he mingled with sailors and watched as fighter jets took off from the deck of the ship, a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. It might have been a welcome getaway from his suddenly complicated social life. In … Read more
A day after President Trump ordered the suspension of American military assistance, Ukrainian diplomats and politicians scrambled on Tuesday to find a way to salvage their alliance with Washington while the war weary nation prepared for the possibility that it will have to fight on without U.S. support. With the White House and the Kremlin … Read more