PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving more than 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse off Keir Starmer is to defy growing anger by driving through welfare cuts for some of the UK’s most severely disabled people, with an overhaul that could see more than 600,000 benefit […]

Four times more buy-to-let firms than fast-food shops now registered at Companies House as landlords switch set-up to cut tax payments Buy-to-let businesses have become the largest single type of business in the UK – with nearly four times as there are fast food takeaways or hairdressers. There are more […]

Alexandra Clarke, 26, was on a diving excursion near Koh Tao when blaze broke out A British tourist is missing in Thailand after the tour boat she was travelling on caught fire off the island of Koh Tao. Alexandra Clarke, 26, from Lambeth, south London, was onboard the Davy Jones […]

London council’s policy of offering people homes far from the area led to England’s highest number of refusals A Labour-run London council left more than 100 families homeless without support last year after they refused to be relocated outside the borough, the Observer can reveal. Freedom of information data from […]

France 35-16 Scotland Bielle-Biarrey and Ramos also score tries in victory In the end, no arguments. England may have done all they could to put France under some pressure – and Scotland went on to exert a bit more, testing France as few others can – but Les Bleus can […]

Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport five Venezuelans, but order halted by judge Donald Trump has invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport five Venezuelan nationals from the US. The White House issued a presidential proclamation on Saturday targeting Venezuelan members of […]

Controversial plans to cut personal independence payments (Pip) may be shelved after a tense cabinet meeting and backlash from Labour MPs Ministers have left the door open to a humiliating U-turn on their highly contentious plans to cut benefits for disabled people, amid mounting uproar over the proposals across the […]

Prime minister tells a summit of 29 leaders that the Russian president cannot delay peace talks indefinitely Keir Starmer accused Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet over agreeing to a ceasefire with Ukraine on Saturday as international pressure grew on the Russian president to enter talks. The prime minister said […]

Vladimir Motin was in charge of the Solong when it hit a tanker off East Yorkshire coast, leaving one man dead The master of the container ship the Solong, which crashed into another vessel in the North Sea, has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter. Vladimir Motin, 59, a Russian […]

Loss of staff will be at least twice as big as thought, as new NHS England chief tells regional boards to cut costs by 50% The jobs cull from the government’s radical restructuring of the NHS will be at least twice as big as previously thought, with other parts of […]