Barts, which runs five hospital sites in east London, charged 1,389 patients for their care in 2022-23 – 800 of those patients were women and 581 were men. Local democracy reporter Josh... Read more »
Shadow housing secretary and Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has accused the government of “foot dragging” over the slow progress of the Renters Reform Bill, which received a Second Reading in the... Read more »
Labour accuses prime minister of being ‘slippery’ over Covid inquiry messages Good morning and welcome to the UK politics live blog. We begin the day with the Labour party accusing Rishi Sunak... Read more »
A frustrated cyclist captured the moment he was stopped by London police officers and accused of a ‘public order offence’ after swearing at an unmarked police car who was parked in a... Read more »
The Metropolitan Police has blasted Just Stop Oil who are engaged in a month-long protest across the capital, accusing them of tying up officers who should be out beating knife crime and... Read more »
Immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Yang Yanhua*, a 22-year-old classical music student in Kyiv, called the Chinese embassy in the city to seek help. He tried several times but... Read more »
Redbridge Council leader Jas Athwal has accused the government of “dumping” rough sleepers from across London in Ilford’s hotels during the pandemic. His comments came as a man in his 30s was... Read more »
Sadiq Khan has been accused by the Home Secretary of “ignoring” a spate of “chilling” anti-Semitic attacks which have “terrorised communities”. Last week, as Jewish communities marked Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), a... Read more »
An unprecedented security warning from MI5 was circulated to MPs and peers on Thursday that accused a lawyer, Christine Lee, of seeking to improperly influence parliamentarians on behalf of China’s ruling Communist... Read more »
Boris Johnson has said “all guidance was followed completely” as the prime minister was accused by Sir Keir Starmer of hosting a “boozy party” in Downing Street last Christmas despite COVID rules... Read more »
