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Saturday Night Live (SNL) UK has mocked prime minister Andy Burnham’s appearance on Celebrity Gogglebox and Prince William’s Graham Norton Show interview. The programme’s opened with George Fouracres as Burnham and Emma Sidi as Liverpool mayor Steve Rotheram sitting on the Gogglebox sofa, with the Prime Minister telling his friend he had “all the types of crisps a relatable bloke would have in their house”. Rotheram tells Burnham that SNL […]

More than 82,000 properties are without power as Storm Boelo continues to batter northern parts of the UK with gusts reaching 84mph. An amber wind warning remains in place until 9pm, having activated hours after the first named storm of the season petered out from the south west. On Sunday morning, winds gusts peaked at 84mph in Argyll and Bute, 83mph in Snowdonia and 82mph in the Inner Hebrides, the […]

Britain’s high street banks are set to unveil stronger profits as they face the prospect of being targeted for a tax hike in the Budget. Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, NatWest Group and Santander will report their third-quarter financial results next week. The announcements will come on the same week that Chancellor John Healey will deliver his autumn Budget statement, on Wednesday October 28. Banks are widely speculated to be a […]

Mikel Arteta is confident Arsenal will rediscover their potency from set-pieces after breaking their duck in Saturday’s 2-0 Premier League victory over Everton. The Gunners developed a reputation as set-piece specialists last term, scoring 29 times from corners, free-kicks and penalties en route to winning the title. Yet Ezri Konsa’s scrambled, seventh-minute opener against the Toffees marked the first time the reigning champions had scored from a set play in […]

John Healey should resign as Chancellor if he fails to set out how the UK will spend a 3% share of the economy on defence by 2030, the Tories have demanded. The Chancellor has said the timetable for increases in defence funding will be set out at next year’s spending review rather than in Wednesday’s Budget statement. But shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith said Mr Healey should stop “dithering” and come […]