Party prepares to claim Northern Ireland first minister post for first time with power sharing set to resume Sinn Féin has said a united Ireland is “within touching distance” as the party prepares to claim the post of Northern Ireland first minister for the first time. Mary Lou McDonald said […]
Internal emails reveal he also said his ethnicity and working-class background helped to make him a target Martin Bashir blamed “professional jealousy” and his background and ethnicity after allegations that he used deceit to secure an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, it has been revealed. The BBC has released […]
Nature-based solutions such as parks and ponds are recommended – as is giving heatwaves names The UK urgently needs a plan to prevent thousands of heatwave deaths a year as the climate continues to warm, a cross-party committee of MPs has warned. More than 4,500 people died in heatwaves in […]
Exclusive: Maximum possible 4.99% rises expected in April while PM plans pre-election cuts to income tax How a decade of austerity has squeezed council budgets ‘I’m scared for the city’: Nottingham faces council cuts Households across England are facing an inflation-busting £2bn council tax raid this spring despite Rishi Sunak’s […]
Exclusive: Business secretary who has told party rebels to stop ‘stirring’ and back PM is in group along with Michael Gove Kemi Badenoch is a member of a Conservative WhatsApp group called “Evil Plotters” despite telling party rebels to “stop messing around” and get behind Rishi Sunak, the Guardian can […]
Lloyd Austin says president ‘will not tolerate attacks on US forces’, but Qatar warns that reprisal attacks could undermine Israel hostage talks See all our Middle East coverage US defense secretary Lloyd Austin has vowed to take “all necessary actions” to defend US troops after Iran-backed militants killed three US […]
Conservative opposition in the House of Lords could prolong wrangling over bill’s implementation Rishi Sunak’s troubled Rwanda deportation plan has been condemned by Conservative peers, historians and bishops in an indication that the House of Lords could demand changes that might delay its implementation. Ken Clarke, the Conservative former chancellor […]
Tehran-linked drug dealer, a Canadian Hells Angel member and another man charged with plotting Iranian defector’s killing The US has charged an Iranian drug trafficker with intelligence ties to Tehran, a Canadian Hells Angel and another Canadian man in an alleged plot to carry out assassinations in the US. According […]
Iranian backed militia took credit for attack that injured 34 troops and killed first US soldiers in battle since start of the Gaza conflict The spectre of a direct US-Iranian military conflict drew closer on Sunday when the US president Joe Biden announced three US servicemen have been killed and […]
Exclusive: New claims come on 25th anniversary of death of Jay Abatan, who was assaulted in Brighton in 1999 Officers in a police force that bungled the investigation into a suspected racist killing, allegedly went on holiday, dined and partied with suspects arrested over the attack, the Guardian has learned. […]