In this issue

August 09, 2022

Truss tax plans could cost £50bn a year without helping worst-off

Guardian analysis casts doubt on foreign secretary’s £30bn claim

4 mins

Autumn Crisis Likely In The NHS, Say Experts

Cost of living crisis will further strain ‘creaking’ NHS, say experts

3 mins

Woman, 46, who came to UK as a baby fights for right to work

A Spanish-born woman who has lived in England for 45 years is still fighting to secure the right to work in the UK, a year after being sacked from her job in a care home because she was unable to prove she had a valid immigration status.

2 mins

Review casts doubt on plan to axe 91,000 civil servants

Doubts have been cast on claims by Boris Johnson that it will be possible to go ahead with plans to axe 91,000 civil servants “without harming” frontline services.

3 mins

Worst drought in decades will be ‘the new normal’ in Europe, experts warn

Europe’s most severe drought in decades is hitting homes, factories, farmers and freight across the continent, as experts warn drier winters and searing summers fuelled by global heating mean water shortages will become “the new normal”.

4 mins

Conservative peer Mone settles libel claim ‘for more than £50k’

The Conservative peer Michelle Mone has paid an amount understood to be above £50,000 to settle a libel claim from a former friend of Indian heritage who had previously accused her of sending him a racist message, calling him “a waste of a man’s white skin”.

2 mins

Birmingham leaders look to build on Commonwealth Games momentum

Birmingham is expecting a surge of tourists over the summer after the city’s reputation received a boost from the Commonwealth Games, business leaders said as the 11-day event came to a close last night.

3 mins

Growing pressure What challenges does service face in autumn?

The health secretary, Steve Barclay, has warned that the NHS faces serious challenges this autumn.

2 mins

Toll Of Infectious Human Diseases Being ‘Worsened By Climate Crisis'

More than half of the infectious human diseases caused by pathogens looked at in a new study of the link between disease and climate have been worsened at some point by the sort of impacts associated with the climate crisis.

3 mins

Wolves sign Guedes and let Coady join Everton on loan

Wolves will make the Valencia forward Gonçalo Guedes their second summer signing in a £27.5m deal.

1 min

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