Portrait of the week: Doctors on strike, Labour on the attack and Tupperware in trouble

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President Joe Biden of the United States visited Northern Ireland, shook hands with party leaders, talked with Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (though not about a trade agreement), and went on to the Republic of Ireland, for the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. The accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael resigned as auditors to the Scottish National party. Its decision coincided with a police search of the SNP’s headquarters in Edinburgh following the arrest and release without charge of Peter Murrell, the party’s former chief executive and the husband of Nicola Sturgeon, who was the SNP leader and first minister. Tony Danker was sacked as director-general of the Confederation of British Industry after ‘complaints of workplace misconduct’ against him. The main railway link between London and Oxford was expected to be closed until at least June because brickwork had crumbled at the Nuneham viaduct.