Breakfast briefing for HM
The Queen will receive a breakfast briefing on the main talking points from Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The monarch’s most trusted aides are expected to stay up through the night after securing access to watch the programme.
No member of the Royal Family had been given an advance copy of the two-hour programme, set to air in the US tonight – 1am UK time.
Her Majesty will be given a “blow by blow” account of the main headlines from the muchanticipated interview with the US chat show queen.
A retired British pol ice officer fell to his death from a warehouse balcony in the Caribbean.
Cayman Islands police are investigating how Nicholas Keane, 63, from the West Midlands, fell in the capital George Town on Wednesday at 5pm.
Two other people were reportedly standing on the balcony with him.
A crucial foundation of any democracy is that governments are open and transparent.
Once you lose this, you can very quickly lose everything.
It is concerning, therefore, that the Scottish Government doesn’t appear to have been able to meet this standard with its own lawyers.
Roddy Dunlop QC was left furious after being made to compromise his professional reputation when key emails were not handed over as he fought Alex Salmond’s judicial review. It appears the information was only uncovered after the intervention of the Lord Advocate James Wolffe to search files in the office of Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans.
When the necessary communications were finally uncovered, they blew a hole in the Government’s case. But rather than abandon it, they ploughed on at huge cost to taxpayers.
If ministers can’t even be transparent to Scotland’s top lawyer as he attempts to defend them in court, what chance do we have?
A former Tory cabinet minister has come up with a social care funding plan that would involve people paying a £16,000 insurance premium after their death.
Lord Lilley, social security secretary in John Major’s government, said plugging the hole in social care budgets was the “biggest priority” for the sector.
The peer’s plan, due to be published tomorrow in a report for the Institute for Civil Society, calls for people to agree to pay an insurance premium of £ 16,000 to a state-backed guarantor.
The state would cover the costs if a stay in a care home was required in later life, with the fee taken from the sale of a property after death.