Rishi Sunak will court hundreds of Britain’s leading bosses at a summit this month that will be seen as an attempt to wrest back momentum from Keir...
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Ex-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell – the husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon – has been arrested following an investigation into the...
A giant vessel docked off the Dorset coast will be used to hold hundreds of asylum seekers, the Home Office has confirmed, despite legal threats from local...
The government has reannounced plans to ban plastic wet wipes that clog up Britain’s sewers, amid increasing pressure to tackle water pollution. The...
New rules must be adopted to prevent hostile states and lobbyists buying access to politics, MPs have been warned. The Commons Standards Committee has proposed...
The government is considering changing the legal definition of sex to “biological” in a move that could bar trans women from female-only spaces...
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has been disqualified from driving for six months for breaking a temporary motorway speed limit by almost 30mph. The MP for...
Labour will force fly-tippers to work in “clean-up squads” if it wins power at the next election. The party made the pledge as it highlighted...
Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has said convicted criminals should be forced to attend their sentencing in court, after Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s murderer...
Plans to house migrants on a barge could see Home Secretary Suella Braverman facing a legal challenge from a fellow Conservative MP. Ricard Drax is working to...
Headteachers have “overwhelmingly” rejected the government’s pay offer, with a union representing school leaders branding it...
Charities have accused the government of halving funding it had promised for the social care workforce – branding it an “insult” and...
Liz Truss told the family of a British citizen who was set to be released by Iran with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe that he was not her “problem”...
A new grooming gangs taskforce will be launched to stop the exploitation of children and young women, the government has announced. Specialist officers will...
Nicola Sturgeon has said online rumours and the need to seek more privacy was “part of the reason” she resigned. The former SNP leader announced...
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has refused to confirm if deportation flights to Rwanda will begin this summer. The policy to deport migrants arriving in the...