Serious violence is rising, and there’s little more that police can do to stop it. Of course, the real culprits are cutbacks to the nation’s social protection systems.
Former chancellor George Osborne has been appointed as the editor of the London Evening Standard newspaper, in a move that will provoke questions about the independence of the British press.
After six years of the economy in the “safe hands” of a Conservative-led government, the national debt has risen to its highest level since the 1960s, when the UK was paying off its debts from two world wars.
A vote to leave the European Union on 23 June would cause the loss of up to 820,000 jobs and push the UK into a recession within two years, George Osborne says.
Pressure is growing on cabinet ministers and senior politicians to release their tax returns as David Cameron attempts to deflect public interest away from his own financial affairs.