Committee head says report of £15m being paid on top of £140m already spent shows ‘total disregard’ for parliamentary scrutiny Ministers are deliberately hiding the mounting costs of the Rwanda deportation scheme from the public, the head of an influential parliamentary watchdog has told the Guardian, as insiders expect a […]
Labour leader to warn that Britain is in worst economic state for over 50 years and spending will need to be constrained Labour will not “turn on the spending taps” if it wins the next election, Keir Starmer will say on Monday, bolstering the view of some senior Labour MPs […]
Competition among sellers will increase as mortgage rates settle at ‘elevated’ level, website predicts Average house prices in the UK will fall by 1% next year as competition increases among sellers, Britain’s biggest property website has forecast. Sellers were likely to have to price more competitively to secure a buyer […]
UK prime minister attacked for inconsistency after allowing more gas and oil exploration in the North Sea Rishi Sunak has been accused of hypocrisy on the international stage after pushing for a phase-out of fossil fuels at the UN Cop28 climate summit in Dubai – weeks after backing more oil […]
As pressure grows on Israel to avoid civilian deaths, IDF believes killing leaders will collapse organisation Israel-Hamas war – live updates The Israeli military’s coming push into southern Gaza is driven by the belief that intelligence gleaned from hundreds of militants captured during the fighting in the north will allow […]
Police say the explosion at Mindanao State University gymnasium in Marawi could be revenge by pro-Islamic State militants Three people were killed and nine wounded when an explosion ripped through a university gymnasium during Catholic mass in the southern Philippines. The authorities are investigating the blast at Mindanao State University […]
Police arrest 26-year-old man, who was on French intelligence watchlist, after passersby attacked near Eiffel Tower One person was killed and two others injured after a man attacked tourists in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower, the French interior minister said on Saturday. Police quickly arrested the 26-year-old man, a […]
Human rights groups record alarming rise in number of prisoners put to death by Tehran regime since 7 October The Iranian regime has executed more than 127 people, including women and children, since the Hamas attacks of 7 October, according to human rights groups. According to data collected by Iran […]
PM attracts cross-party criticism with claim that ‘climate politics is at breaking point’ during combative summit visit Rishi Sunak has been accused of “shrinking and retreating” from global leadership as he used the Cop28 summit to claim that “climate politics is at breaking point” because of the costs of net […]
Actor called critics ‘paedophiles’ after they labelled him ‘racist’ following his call for boycott of Sainsbury’s over Black History Month stance The actor and politician Laurence Fox has been accused of “insulting the intelligence of everyone present” during a libel trial at the high court over an argument on social […]