Top story: £2,000 per household to keep NHS goingWelcome to Thursday – I’m Warren Murray and it is time to get the news. Yulia Skripal speaks – “We are so lucky to both have survived this attempted assassination.” The daughter of Sergei Skripal has spoken out for the first time about their poisoning in Salisbury with the Russian-developed novichok nerve agent. “After 20 days in a coma, I woke to the news that we had both been poisoned,” Yulia Skripal said. Yulia Skripal is on many front pages and “From Russia with luck” is the Sun’s headline (the Briefing reckons our play on that was better). Sign upThe Guardian morning briefing is delivered to thousands of inboxes bright and early every weekday.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2018 05:30 UTC