Exclusive: backbenchers may be allowed to abstain, a major climbdown from previous votes when rebels were suspended from the party Ministers are scrambling to avoid a damaging rebellion this summer when MPs vote on controversial cuts to disability benefit payments, even offering potential rebels the chance to miss the vote […]
Month: April 2025
US president and first lady received invitation in February from King Charles for unprecedented repeat trip Donald Trump has said he is expecting to travel to to the UK in September for his second state visit. King Charles is preparing to host the US president and first lady as the […]
Equality watchdog says health service ‘now has clarity’ as managers draw up new policy for hospitals and surgeries NHS bosses are scrambling to overhaul guidelines for single-sex spaces in thousands of hospitals and GP surgeries after the equality watchdog warned they would be pursued if they fail to do so. […]
Manchester United unveiled a giant tifo that declared “Never Gonna Stop”, then did precisely this by knocking out 10-man Lyon in an electrifying end to extra time that ranks second in the club’s pantheon of late, late continental finishes. For those here the drama of minutes 114-120 (+34 seconds) will […]
One person seriously injured after accident at Monte Faito near Naples Four people have died and one is seriously injured after a cable car crashed to the ground near Naples in southern Italy on Thursday. A cable broke on the link taking tourists from the town of Castellammare di Stabia, […]
Judges say Equality Act definition excludes transgender women, after gender-critical campaigners’ challenge The UK supreme court has issued a historic and definitive ruling that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer only to a biological woman and to biological sex. In a decision that delighted gender-critical activists, […]
Exclusive: civil servants beef up security rules for sensitive negotiating papers over fears posed by hostile US trade policy UK officials are tightening security when handling sensitive trade documents to prevent them from falling into US hands amid Donald Trump’s tariff war, the Guardian can reveal. In an indication of […]
Mark Carney’s Liberals have surged in the polls since Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada, scuppering Conservative calls for change after Trudeau era Prime Minister Mark Carney said the key question in Canada’s upcoming election is who is best to deal with Donald Trump as he faced his Conservative rival in […]
When at last The Never Ending Story reached its final page, there was Bukayo Saka standing at the north end of the Santiago Bernabéu shrugging a familiar shrug that says: how about that, then? And that was pretty special, Arsenal’s own story written as Mikel Arteta had asked and given […]
Findings likely to increase pressure on Israel to give a full account of incident amid accusations of war crime The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline The doctor who carried out the postmortems of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed by Israeli troops in Gaza in March […]