The Spectator

Portrait of the week | 28 April 2016

Plus: Hillsborough verdicts, deaths of Victoria Wood and Prince, BHS and Austin Reed go into administration

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Junior doctors went on strike for two days, refusing to provide even emergency treatment. The 96 Liverpool fans who died in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster in 1989 were unlawfully killed, an inquest jury found. Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, contemplated British forces being sent to Libya, but said ‘if there were ever any question of a British combat role in any form — ground, sea or air — that would go to the House of Commons’. Big Ben is to be silenced for months while its clock and tower are restored.

‘The UK is going to be in the back of the queue’ to make a trade agreement with the United States if the British vote to leave the European Union, President Barack Obama of the United States said while standing next to David Cameron, the Prime Minister, at a press conference at the Foreign Office.

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