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A former minister who defied Government policy by endorsing the sale of The Telegraph to an Abu Dhabi-backed fund has been given a key shadow cabinet role by Kemi Badenoch.

Rachel Reeves's Budget will have catastrophic consequences for cancer patients who depend on charities for their life-saving care, warned Roger Daltrey, The Who singer.

This was meant to have been a US election that rested on a razor's edge, a contest that was simply too close to predict.

The Princess Royal's children are expected to be hit by an increased inheritance tax bill when she passes on her Gatcombe Park home under changes made in Rachel Reeves's Budget.

The 730-acre estate in Gloucestershire includes farmland which will now be liable to tax at 20 per cent

· 3-min read As the countdown to the second Trump presidency begins, Britain is in the enviable position of having a politician who can rightly claim to be a personal friend of The Donald.

Kemi Badenoch has just settled into an armchair in the snooker room at Rickmansworth Conservative Club after an afternoon of meeting farmers and canvassing voters.

In her first interview since taking up her new role, the Conservative leader talks race, free speech and why she won’t be cowed by Starmer

Tory leader challenges Starmer over non-crime hate incidents after police investigation into Telegraph journalist

Plus, an eminent vaccine expert’s concern over Trump’s pick for health secretary: vaccine ‘sceptic’ Robert F Kennedy Jr