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Big government promises have transpired into little funding or action on levelling up, says Northern think tank

Prime minister faces growing revolt and defection over ‘Partygate’ scandal

Potential treatments include ‘smell training’

Inflation hits 30-year high of 5.4% – and analysts predict it could get even worse

Newly elected MPs plan to submit letters to 1922 chairman Sir Graham Brady

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The trade minister and staunch Brexiteer is a favourite to replace embattled Boris Johnson

Government advisers fear summer wave will follow lifting of coronavirus restrictions

Andrew has been stripped of most of his military titles but is still a prince and duke

Planned events to mark royal anniversary include four-day bank holiday

Punchy policy announcements and a clear-out of PM’s senior staff form part of the plan to save his sinking premiership

Culture secretary signals that national broadcaster will have new funding model from 2027

Shadow health secretary says the PM is ‘great’ for the opposition

Monarch’s third child said to be ‘the spare she had for herself once she had produced the heir’

Two further parties held in No. 10 as Queen mourned death of Prince Philip

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‘Brutal’ decision rules out return to public life for the duke – and may sound warning to Prince Harry

Solicitor suspected of ‘political interference’ has long ties to UK establishment

The Week looks at some of the most notable feuds between Britain’s parliamentary titans

There is growing frustration with the minority of people who have yet to receive their Covid-19 jabs

Police issue warning over criminal extortion using threat of sharing sexual images

Human rights champion calls for greater protection for red-headed children

The duke could be cross-examined on camera by one of America’s ‘most feared trial lawyers’

Cabinet rallies behind their boss as other Tories call for his resignation

Senior Whitehall official tasked with probing Downing Street lockdown parties

Virus becoming endemic in population with high immunity, expert says

PM accused of ‘insulting’ the public during ‘floundering’ PMQs appearance

Former inmate describes ‘horror’ of giving birth to stillborn baby behind bars

Conservative backbenchers frustrated over negative headlines and ‘levelling up’ promises

Insider says government cannot continue to hand out free tests to everyone for evermore

Former Labour leader being urged to run under the banner of his charity at next election

Leaked email shows No. 10’s most senior civil servant organised May 2020 drinks gathering

Virion Device detects virus by using a saliva sample and can process 1,200 tests per day

Tory leader under pressure to tackle crises including soaring cost of living