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Rishi Sunak has promoted the trade minister Greg Hands to replace Nadhim Zahawi as Conservative party chair as he carries out a mini-reshuffle to try to reassert his grip over his divided party. The prime minister has also conducted a shake-up of Whitehall by splitting the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy into three new departments to better reflect his priorities. There were no sackings, with existing ministers moved to lead the new departments. Grant Shapps, the existing business secretary, will lead the new energy security and net zero department, while Kemi Badenoch will run business and trade while retaining her…

Dominic Raab is known for his “robustness”, a former Cabinet minister said today, as he confirmed that he and the deputy prime minister had “a disagreement” over a policy. Ex-justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland said Mr Raab, who is being investigated over bullying allegations, was “at the top end of the robustness scale”. Sir Robert acknowledged that he had “a disagreement” with Mr Raab over a Daily Telegraph article he wrote criticising his plans for a British Bill of Rights. But he added that they had “moved on now” and that he didn’t want to “rake back through the coals”. His comments came as Rishi Sunak faces…

A health minister has insisted there can be no re-examination of NHS pay for this year as the health service in England faces what is expected to be the biggest strike in its history, with no signs of a government plan to end the impasse. The industrial action on Monday will be the first time that both NHS nurses and ambulance staff in England have stopped work simultaneously, amid an ongoing dispute over pay and staffing. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which is staging two days of action, has said it is calling out twice as many of its members than it did during…

Former President Donald Trump responded to claims that Chinese regime spy balloons entered U.S. airspace during his administration, saying such alleged events “never happened.” An anonymous U.S. Defense Department official said over the weekend that spy balloons transited over U.S. territory under the Trump administration. But Trump, in a Fox News interview on Sunday, pushed back. “This never happened. It would have never happened,” Trump told the outlet, adding that the Chinese regime “respected us greatly” under his leadership. “It never happened with us under the Trump administration and if it did, we would have shot it down immediately,” added Trump. “It’s disinformation.” Before the balloon…

Hundreds of people have been killed as they slept in Turkey and Syria after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit in the early hours of Monday morning, in one of the most powerful quakes in the region in at least a century. Thousands more were injured as the quake wiped out entire sections of major cities in a region filled with millions of people who have fled the civil war in Syria and other conflicts. By 9am GMT the death toll had been put at 237 in government-controlled parts of Syria, 147 in rebel-held northern Syria and 284 in Turkey. The toll was expected to rise…

It was a goal to make history and to achieve the seemingly impossible – thrill across both sides of the north London divide. Harry Kane got it early on and, in doing so, he became Tottenham’s all-time record scorer, moving to 267 – one clear of the legendary Jimmy Greaves. Spurs had been desperate for something to spark their season, a first victory against a member of the so-called big six after so many frustrations, and they got it – deservedly, against a curiously off-colour Manchester City. And how it would be celebrated down the road at Arsenal, whose lead…

A lawyer for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, urged state and federal agencies in a letter on Feb. 1 to probe what he said were attempts by close allies of former President Donald Trump and others to “weaponize” the contents of a laptop that an electronics repair shop owner says was dropped off at his Delaware store in 2019. The letters from Hunter Biden’s attorneys mark the first time he and his legal team have publicly acknowledged that it was his personal data found on the laptop. The letters were sent by Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell to the Delaware attorney general, the Department of…

Sean Dyche appealed to disgruntled Evertonians to park their grievances with the club and lift his relegation-threatened team, as he denied receiving promises over transfers before taking the job. The new Everton manager witnessed the fracture between fans and board on his second day in charge when protests were held outside Finch Farm training ground over the failure to make a January signing. Demonstrations against the board are planned for before and after Saturday’s home match against the league leaders Arsenal, with organisers pledging their support to Dyche and his players during the game. Dyche believes that backing is imperative…

The Bank of England raised interest rates for a tenth consecutive time on Thursday from 3.5% to 4%, but said inflation may have peaked and a recession in the UK would be shorter and shallower than previously feared. Piling more pressure on mortgage payers and businesses struggling to pay off their loans, the Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) said the 0.5-percentage point rise was needed after private sector wages had risen more than the central bank’s previous forecasts. Publishing an updated outlook for the economy alongside the rate decision, the Bank said that inflation “is likely to have peaked” and a recession…

The U.S. military is currently tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon over Montana, according to a senior Pentagon official. “The United States Government has detected and is tracking a high altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now,” said Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder in a Feb. 2 statement. A senior defense official told reporters the Pentagon has a “very high confidence” that the balloon comes from China. The high-altitude surveillance balloon allegedly floated over the Aleutian islands and Canada before crossing over the airspace of Montana, according to an NBC report that cited three unnamed government officials. Ryder said that North American…