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Portrait of the week: Sturgeon resigns, inflation falls and a crown for Camilla

issue 18 February 2023

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Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, announced her resignation. Jeremy Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader said. A boy and girl, both aged 15, were charged with the murder of Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old transgender girl, at Culcheth, Cheshire. A revision of the Northern Ireland Protocol was predicted, under which goods from Britain destined only for Northern Ireland would not face physical customs checks; but bananas would face a tariff lest they be smuggled into the Republic. Six members of a gang, Michael Malik Ahmed, Roshan Clark, Kaijuan Henry, Zakariah Yusuf, Jessy Ouma and Joseph Opoku, who wielded knives and machetes to steal watches in Clapham and Chelsea, were convicted of robbery. Queen Mary’s Crown, made in 1911, will be used to crown Queen Camilla in May, with three Cullinan diamonds restored to it, but not the Koh-i-Noor. The Queen Consort, 75, caught Covid.

Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said that Britain had a ‘quick reaction alert force’ of Typhoon jets ready in case a Chinese balloon floated over.

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