Southgate’s team will at worst go through third in group France and Netherlands also progress without playing England went through to the last 16 at Euro 2024 on Monday night without kicking a ball after Albania were beaten 1-0 by Spain. The result in Düsseldorf means Gareth Southgate’s side will […]

Iain Duncan Smith and Tobias Ellwood make case for new rules as questions raised over £500 wager Senior Conservatives and campaigners are calling for a ban on political bets by MPs, as the Gambling Commission was urged to look into another £500 wager connected with the growing election gambling scandal. […]

TUC says party has overseen ‘huge rise’ in poverty, as Resolution Foundation says average wages just £16 a week higher in real terms than in 2010 The crisis of poverty that has taken root in the UK over the past 14 years has been laid bare in two reports that […]

Study finds critical period between ages of 11 and 14 is when ‘things seem to start going wrong’ compared with wealthier group A critical three-year period between the ages of 11 and 14 has been identified as the point at which talented children from low-income backgrounds fall behind their wealthier […]

Scotland needed a win to secure a spot in the knockout phase of a major tournament for the first time, save some form of arithmetic cruelty. Hungary carried faint hopes of progress with a win here. The teams looked destined to play out a mutually unsatisfactory, ragged, scoreless draw until […]

Ella Janneh won damages in civil case against Michael Lousada after her case was not prosecuted and two appeals to CPS were dismissed When Ella Janneh was awarded £217,000 in damages in the high court after a civil case against a TV sex therapist she accused of raping her, it […]

Channel 4’s Dispatches film shows ‘harrowing’ scenes in emergency department of Royal Shrewsbury hospital Almost 19,000 NHS patients were left waiting in A&E for three days over a 12-month period, an investigation has revealed. Between April 2023 and March 2024, nearly 400,000 people were left waiting more than 24 hours […]

Senior Tories call for suspension of those being investigated and Labour demands to know names in gambling circle Rishi Sunak is facing a growing clamour to come clean about the betting scandal engulfing Westminster after a fifth figure was drawn into the row. Senior Conservatives were among those calling for […]

Protest features 350 environmental groups demanding more robust action on UK wildlife loss Thousands of people marched through central London to urge political leaders to take more decisive action in tackling the UK’s wildlife crisis. The protest on Saturday culminated in a rally outside Parliament Square with speeches from prominent […]

Water companies have logged five sewage spills a day, every day, for a decade, analysis by the Observer shows Water companies in England and Wales have averaged five serious sewage spills into rivers or seas every day over the past decade, the Observer can reveal. Analysis of Environment Agency data […]