Nick Gutteridge

Sir Keir Starmer has made fresh concessions in his race to hand over the Chagos Islands before Donald Trump takes power, Mauritius has suggested.

Sir Keir Starmer has ditched attempts to get his Chagos Islands deal signed before Donald Trump takes office next week.

· 4-min read Sir Keir Starmer has ditched attempts to get his Chagos Islands deal signed before Donald Trump takes office next week.

Labour has snuck a new boiler tax through Parliament with minimal scrutiny. MPs rubber-stamped the policy on Wednesday amid warnings it will hand Ed Miliband “unfettered power” to push up prices.

Kemi Badenoch will admit on Thursday that the Conservatives pledged to reach net zero by 2050 without a plan for how to achieve it, saying her party made a “mistake” when it wrote the target into law.

The Civil Service continued to expand rapidly last year despite the Tories trying to impose a cap on its headcount.

‘To make a woman in her late 70s do a course like that, it’s a joke,’ says Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who has now switched to Reform

It was not the first time Victoria Starmer had walked through the “arbeit macht frei” gate or gazed upon the piles of tiny shoes that are a horrifying reminder of the 230,000 children who never made it out of Auschwitz

Elizabeth I loomed large over Lord Hermer's right shoulder as the new Attorney General strode to the podium to deliver his first major speech.

Lord Hermer believes the UK must go ‘further than simply meeting obligations’ to ‘restore its reputation’