Matt Dathan

The review ordered by home secretary Yvette Cooper recommended changes to counterextremism policy to tackle a greater range of threats

Public support for capital punishment has surged to 55 per cent, fuelled by the sentencing of the Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana

Richard Hermer KC has been accused by the Tories of breaking convention for not declaring the money received from legal work carried out before entering government last summer

The actor and campaigner’s BBC documentary explores the knife crime crisis in the UK

Sir Keir Starmer opposed the same measure in the Tory’s Illegal Migration Act, passed in 2023, but has not removed it from his new proposal to stop the boats

Ministers announce new criminal offences, including making it a crime to endanger another life at sea, as they legislate to ‘smash the gangs’

Exclusions from offence of ‘endangering another during sea crossing to UK’ in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill raise questions of law’s effect

The PM wants to negotiate a defence and security pact and the French president is keen, but also intends to make the UK eat humble pie at Monday’s summit

The King is to reinstate the lost tradition of the monarch holding a formal meeting with the new leader of the ­opposition

A think tank says that the approval of drugs used to cause patient deaths would be in the hands of the health secretary with no parliamentary debate