Ministers have come under fire for failing to “run votes through the night” as peers blocked Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill for a fourth time on Wednesday, threatening further delays to the first deportation flights.]]>
Consumers face the prospect of permanently higher interest rates amid geopolitical tensions and “slower globalisation”, a Bank of England official has warned.]]>
It had to be Kylian Mbappé. Of course it did. He had been quiet; he had been jeered; he had been questioned; even accused of having ‘given up’ as he is joining Real Madrid at the end of the season when his contract runs out.]]>
Rafael Nadal enjoyed a straightforward homecoming at the Barcelona Open after 102 days on the sidelines, but questions about his physical state remain.
Before Tuesday, 22-time major champion Nadal had not played a competitive tennis match since January at the Brisbane Open. Hip and abdominal injuries have affected him ever since, curtailing what is expected to be his farewell season.
After pulling out of last week’s Monte Carlo tournament, 37-year-old Nadal was adamant about returning on the clay in Barcelona, where he has won 12 times and even the main court is named after him. ]]>
Andrew Bailey has signalled UK interest rates remain on course to fall in the coming months amid growing fears that stubborn inflation will force the US to delay rate cuts.]]>
Pep Guardiola used to call Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur side the ‘Harry Kane team’ and the Argentine now has the ‘Cole Palmer team’ at Chelsea.]]>
MPs have rejected all the Lords’ Rwanda Bill amendments, after the Government was accused of “flogging a dead horse” with the policy.
The seven amendments included those that sought to require local authorities to complete age assessments for migrants before their removal, and to exempt Afghan staff who worked alongside the UK armed forces.
The Bill will return to the Lords tomorrow, when it is expected that Labour and crossbench peers may seek to reinstate three or four amendments.
The votes came after Labour’s Stephen Kinnock accused the Government of “flogging a dead horse” over the policy, more than two years after it was first introduced.
MPs also voted to support a proposal put forward by James Cleverly, the Home Secretary, offering an annual report on the impact of the Rwanda Scheme on modern slavery victims.
In the latest round of “parliamentary ping-pong” shadow Home Office minister Mr Kinnock criticised the Government for what he described as “two years of pursuing a policy that is fundamentally unworkable, unaffordable and unlawful”.
“Two years of flogging this dead horse,” he added.]]>
US private equity investors have bought the site of what had been hoped would become Britain’s first electric car battery gigafactory in a blow to Britain’s net zero ambitions.]]>
They say that the Masters does not start until the back nine on a Sunday. Not for Scottie Scheffler, it doesn’t. For the second time in three years, this is exactly when he ended it, clinically pulling clear towards the Butler Cabin as all those around him lost their heads.]]>
Suddenly it feels like this has been the pivotal weekend in the Premier League title race. Just after Liverpool threw away their chance to resume the leadership, Arsenal choked.]]>
They treat the players as rock stars at the Stade Ernest-Wallon with 5,000 people waiting more than two hours in near 30C heat just to greet the arrival of the team bus. Jack Willis duly played like he was in Guns N’ Roses, helping Toulouse to unleash a brand of heavy metal that left Exeter a quivering wreck by the end of a brutal second half in which they shipped seven tries.]]>
The old cliché says you can only beat what is in front of you. Well Northampton Saints did just that, with Phil Dowson’s side marching into the semi-finals of the Investec Champions Cup for the first time since reaching the final in 2011.]]>
If Manchester City do pull off a miraculous “Double Treble” this season then Pep Guardiola may look back on this weekend as one of those significant staging posts in the march to history.]]>
This might have been much worse for Erik ten Hag as the game ticked past a total of 100 minutes, although escaping from Bournemouth with two equalisers and a single point will have told him that the fall continues to be steep.]]>
On the day that I Am Maximus won the Grand National, Harlequins borrowed the gladiatorial mantra of death or glory to deliver potentially the best performance in their history in a 12-try thriller against Bordeaux. And they might just have saved the credibility of the Champions Cup in the process.]]>
Another day, another emphatic victory for England, who overcame Amy Cokayne’s second-half red card to make it three wins from three in the Women’s Six Nations with an eight-try dismantling of Scotland.]]>
It was 13th time lucky for Paul Townend as he steered I Am Maximus home with an exemplary ride to put his and trainer Willie Mullins’ mark on Grand National history.]]>
There is an image of Micky van de Ven that summed up Tottenham Hotspur’s performance in this costly defeat. His frame is contorted into an unnatural shape, lying on his back, mouth and eyes wide open, shock and confusion frozen on his face, as Alexander Isak scores Newcastle United’s first goal.]]>
Sir Keir Starmer refused three times to say if Angela Rayner should resign as deputy leader of the Labour Party if she is found to have broken the law.]]>