Documents indicate monarch was informed Anthony Blunt was Soviet agent in 1973, though he confessed in 1964 The late Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost 10 years that Anthony Blunt, a surveyor of the queen’s pictures and a member of the royal household, had confessed to being a […]

Keir Starmer offers support to underfire chancellor after bruising start to new year Rachel Reeves will remain as chancellor until the next general election, Keir Starmer has insisted, as he warned the Treasury would be “ruthless” over public spending cuts to help meet the government’s fiscal rules. The Treasury is […]

Anonymised data could help develop treatments, drugs and diagnostic tools but potential misuse worries experts What does AI plan mean for NHS patient data and is there cause for concern? Ministers are considering allowing private companies to make profits from NHS data as part of a push to revolutionise the […]

Exclusive: Voters overall are downbeat about politics and almost two-thirds think ‘the UK’s best years are behind us’ One in five generation Z and millennial Britons prefer strong leaders without elections to democracy, and voters overall are feeling downbeat about politics, a report has found. The polling, due to be […]

Cash profit on a sale falls for second year in a row, to below £100,000, finds Hamptons Sellers in England and Wales made less than £100,000 profit on the sale of their home last year, or just over 40% – the lowest return in a decade – according to the […]

Eight of the dead found in Palisades fire zone and 16 in Eaton fire zone, medical examiner says, as forestry department warns of ‘critical fire weather’ Full story: stronger winds threaten further destruction, officials warn Politicians quibbling as LA burns: Newsom’s latest beef with Trump Details emerge about the LA […]

Exclusive: paramedics unable to respond to 100,000 calls a month as they wait to hand over patients ‘It feels like a war zone’ – exhausted ambulance service workers tell their stories Paramedics in England are unable to respond to 100,000 urgent 999 calls every month because they are stuck outside […]

Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, ministers have announced, with a multibillion-pound investment in the UK’s computing capacity despite widespread public fear about the technology’s effects. Keir […]

Senior cabinet minister promises not to dilute new measures despite Zuckerberg’s attacks on countries ‘censoring’ content Britain’s new laws to boost safety and tackle hate speech online are “not up for negotiation”, a senior government minister has warned, after Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg vowed to join Donald Trump to pressure […]

Dan Carden says government must heed calls for justice and show ‘whose side it on’ A Labour MP has become the first to break ranks and publicly call for a national inquiry into grooming gangs and has urged the prime minister to “use the full power of the state to […]