When even Angela Rayner remains relentlessly on message, you know the election is in the bag You win some, you lose some. This week, both Labour and the Tories will reckon they’ve struck lucky with the timings of their manifesto launches – though for very different reasons. It’s always hard […]

Giorgia Meloni appears to recoil from UK PM, who has no formal bilateral meetings with other G7 leaders on day one Rishi Sunak has insisted he was not being snubbed by other leaders after his first day at the G7 summit ended without any bilateral meetings with his counterparts and […]

Craig Williams’s £100 bet prompted inquiry by the Gambling Commission and fury within Conservatives Rayner, Mordaunt and Farage set for fresh general election debate clash – politics live Sunak aide’s bet: what are the rules? Bookmakers have been asked by the Gambling Commission to trawl through all substantial bets placed […]

Studies sound alarm at state of cancer care with hundreds of thousands waiting months to start essential treatment Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to wait months to start essential cancer treatment, with deadly delays now “routine” and even children struck by the disease denied vital support, according […]

Suspect understood to have been arrested on suspicion of offences including conspiracy to commit fraud An arrest has been made in connection with the criminal investigation into PPE Medpro, the company that was awarded large government personal protective equipment contracts during the Covid pandemic. In a statement, the National Crime […]

Lawyers say strategy of denying food and services to people in Ukrainian city during siege could amount to war crime Russia engaged in a “deliberate pattern” of starvation tactics during the 85-day siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in early 2022, which amounted to a war crime, according to […]

Exclusive: £100 bet placed in Montgomeryshire – the constituency of Craig Williams – over July poll Rishi Sunak’s closest parliamentary aide placed a £100 bet on a July election just three days before the prime minister named the date, the Guardian can reveal. The Gambling Commission is understood to have […]

Labour puts economic policy and wealth creation at heart of pitch to win over former Conservative voters Keir Starmer will put economic growth and wealth creation at the heart of Labour’s offer to voters as he launches a business-friendly manifesto targeted at former Conservative voters. The Labour leader will launch […]

More ‘grave violations’ committed in occupied territories and Israel than anywhere else in world, report says More grave violations against children were committed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel than anywhere else in the world last year, according to a UN report due to be published this week. The […]

World Health Organization report calls on governments to impose tougher regulation of health-harming products Tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and fossil fuels kill 2.7 million people a year in Europe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which has called on governments to impose tougher regulation of health-harming products. In […]