Will Dry, who quit his No 10 role last November after becoming dispirited, says his party is ‘heading for most almighty of defeats’ Rishi Sunak’s former special adviser is working with a group of rebels trying to oust the prime minister and helped commission polling which predicted a landslide Labour […]
Girls aged eight and 12 and a 36-year-old woman died from knife wounds to the neck The deaths of a woman and two children at a house in Norfolk are being treated as murder, police have confirmed. Kanticha Sukpengpanao, 36, Jasmin Kuczynska, 12, and Natasha Kuczynska, eight, were discovered with […]
Analysis of more than 1m children reveals ‘alarming’ effects of pandemic Almost one in four children aged 10 and 11 in England are obese, according to the largest study of its kind – a finding that experts say exposes the “profound” and “alarming” long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Obesity […]
Former US president repeats 2020 election lie as rival candidate tells crowd New Hampshire is not last race in fight for Republican nomination Follow our live results tracker We are a ways out from the 5 November election itself, but after today’s primary in New Hampshire the election events start […]
Simon Clarke, who served in Liz Truss’s cabinet, sparks renewed Conservative party infighting Rishi Sunak should resign before he leads the Conservatives to “extinction”, a Tory MP has said in an excoriating attack on the prime minister. In a dramatic intervention on Tuesday night, Simon Clarke, who was a cabinet […]
Pentagon calls attacks ‘necessary and proportionate’, after US personnel were injured in a weekend attack in Iraq See all our Middle East crisis coverage The US has carried out strikes in Iraq against three facilities linked to Iran-backed militia, the Pentagon has said, after a weekend attack on an Iraqi […]
Analysis also says not attending school is as deadly as smoking or heavy drinking Every year spent in school or university improves our life expectancy, while not attending school is as deadly as smoking or heavy drinking, according to the first systematic study directly linking education to gains in longevity. […]
CPS accepts Valdo Calocane’s plea of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility over killing of three people in June 2023 The families of three people stabbed to death in Nottingham have spoken of their contempt towards the killer, with one of the mothers saying she felt “utter rage and pure […]
Medical staff arrested at al-Khair hospital, Palestinian officials say, while al-Amal hospital surrounded by tanks The White House has called on Israel to protect innocent people as Palestinian officials said the Israeli military had stormed one hospital in Gaza and placed another under siege. National security council spokesperson John Kirby […]
Six million of the poorest people would need more than double their incomes to move out of hardship, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation Escaping poverty has become significantly harder over the past two decades, with progress to eradicate hardship in Britain having stalled under the Conservatives since 2010, a major report […]