Attendees of the Byron Bay festival report long queues, flooded campsites and people sleeping in cars due to the downpour Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcast After two years of delays due to Covid, […]
Recall Act could be triggered with Johnson at risk of losing Uxbridge seat, HoC committee report suggests Boris Johnson could be forced to face a byelection in his Uxbridge constituency if he is found to have misled MPs over Partygate, a report from the House of Commons privileges committee has […]
Half of women without access live in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, says global research More than 160 million women worldwide who need contraception are unable to access it, according to the largest study of its kind. There has been a huge increase in contraception use globally since 1970, driven […]
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to face off after Penny Mordaunt is voted out, as party members prepare to pick PM Politics live: latest updates Conservatives are braced for a “blue on blue dogfight” as Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss enter a six-week battle to become the UK’s next prime […]
Only two candidates are left in the race to be next leader of the Conservative party. Our panellists tell us who they think will win I could always tell we’d miss Penny Mordaunt when she was out. No, just kidding. There was a sliver of danger, had she or Tom […]
Former prime minister Theresa May refused to clap for Boris Johnson during his standing ovation as he exited his final PMQs. May did not join the applause for the outgoing PM after he signed off by saying ‘Hasta la vista, baby’. May and Johnson clashed frequently in recent years, with […]
Analysis: in the most unpredictable leadership race in years, MPs’ vote was closer than final two would have liked Politics live: latest updates The campaign team of Liz Truss say it was “never in doubt” that she would get to the run-off in the leadership vote. But many would have […]
Kit Malthouse, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, says ‘impacts of climate change are with us now’ The UK must learn to live with extreme weather, a minister has said, as the government was accused of going missing “while Britain burns”. Hundreds of firefighters battled fires across England as temperatures […]
As UK reaches 40C and fires blaze, scientists warn of such temperatures every three years if emissions are not lowered Hundreds of firefighters battled blazes across England on Tuesday as temperatures surged to a historic high of 40.3C, capping two days of extreme heat that scientists warn is “a wake […]
Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss now look to be fighting each other to take on Rishi Sunak in membership vote Politics live: latest updates Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss are locked in a tight race for a chance to become prime minister, alongside Rishi Sunak, as polling seen by the […]