Browsing: UK politics

BBC News says the burden of tax falling on workers and employers has increased as a hotly-debated rise in National Insurance payments takes effect.

The Metro says Chancellor Rishi Sunak has asked the Royal Mint to create the UK government’s first ever NFT.

The Metro says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to give a speech to MPs in the Commons on Tuesday, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.

The Independent says Metropolitan Police fines are believed to have been issued to staff who attended a leaving drinks party for the top government official who helped write Covid rules.

The Independent says LGBTQ charity Stonewall and 80 other organisations have pulled out of a UK government conference over its transgender conversion therapy U-turn.

The Independent says Channel 4 has said it is “disappointed” at the Government’s decision to proceed with plans to privatise.

The Guardian says civil service chiefs are braced for the behaviour of top Whitehall officials to be severely criticised in the Sue Gray partygate report.

The Guardian says the west must not lift sanctions against Russia until all its troops have left Ukraine and Vladimir Putin is unable to mount such an offensive again, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has said.

Daily Express says LABOUR’s calls for the UK to start rationing energy have been shut down after critics argued that Britain needs to ramp up domestic production and boost renewable capacity instead.

Daily Express says BORIS JOHNSON has refused to endorse Jacob Rees-Mogg’s claim that some Covid rules were “inhumane”.