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PM under increasing pressure over Mandelson vetting scandal as sources say ministers spoke up at tense meetingKeir Starmer is looking increasingly isolated over his handling of the Peter Mandelson sca...
Exclusive: McSweeney summoned by foreign affairs select committee in rare step, as Mandelson vetting row continuesMorgan McSweeney is facing a showdown with MPs who will grill him on whether he placed...
Jonathan Brash says ‘own goals’ are distracting from Labour’s achievementsUK inflation accelerated to 3.3% in March after the Iran war triggered the biggest jump in fuel prices for more than three yea...
George Robertson says diplomatic tone from White House is at ‘historic low’ and two allies are likely to keep divergingBritain’s high military dependence on the US is “no longer tenable” and the UK ha...
Former Foreign Office top official’s evidence raises stark issues with ‘the system’ he was seeking to defendThe verdict on Sir Olly Robbins’ parliamentary testimony, among fellow knights of the civil...
Economic body found Britain had the biggest increase in ‘tax wedge’ out of 38 member nations last yearTaxes on workers in Britain rose at the fastest rate among the world’s richest economies last year...
Exclusive: Formby, an ally of Jeremy Corbyn who quit role in 2020, says Labour is now ‘in hock to corporate sponsors’A former Labour general secretary has defected to the Green party, in the latest si...
Muslim Council of Britain under Wajid Akhter wants to replicate Zohran Mamdani’s grassroots voting driveZohran Mamdani’s victory to become New York’s first Muslim mayor took place thousands of miles f...
News follows Guardian report on licence given to British firm exporting machinery to Armenian firm linked to Russian war effortBritish firms will face “much tougher” controls to prevent their goods fr...
Demographic changes will cause a glut of school places, according to National Audit Office reportA failure to account for England’s falling birthrate is leading to a glut of school places and a potent...
Officials warn a conflict situation could cause disruption similar to recent major ransomware incidentsThe UK could face “hacktivist attacks at scale” if it becomes embroiled in a conflict and the imp...
Sacked civil servant acknowledges discussion over release of documents in key committee hearingUK politics live: latest news updatesOlly Robbins responded to a question about an alleged “cover-up” on...
Fiona Harvey tells Nosheen Iqbal why the climate crisis is a threat to national security“Last October, I and other journalists got quite excited because we thought that we were going to be attending a...
“American Zionists get the benefits of white privileged people but talk like they are Black people during slavery,” the NYC frontman argued The post The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas calls out the “whi...
Sacked civil servant tells select committee of ‘pressure’ to give clearance and ‘dismissive’ attitude to vettingUK politics live: latest news updatesThe civil servant sacked by Keir Starmer has given...
Exclusive: Victims’ commissioner makes formal complaint after committee session left one attender ‘shocked, upset and extremely distressed’Victims of rape and sexual violence have told parliamentarian...
Keir Starmer’s decision to oust senior official may have knock-on effect for No 10’s relationship with civil serviceFury within Whitehall about the treatment of Olly Robbins remains white hot several...
Ministers also asked to alter compensation rights and suspend emissions trading scheme amid Middle East warAirlines are lobbying the UK government to relax environmental and noise rules, modify passen...
Home secretary accuses protesters of trying to ‘delegitimise’ concerns people have over immigrationShabana Mahmood told “white liberal” hecklers to “f*** right off” after being accused at an on-stage...
Olly Robbins told MPs he had been asked to get the ex-No 10 aide a role and not mention it to then Foreign Secretary David LammyRobbins v Starmer: the key Mandelson points they disagree onThe hearing...