Charities warned Keir Starmer’s cuts will drive disabled people into poverty

The international aid minister has said the situation in Gaza is so dire that she “would loot too” if she was there.

After the former prime minister’s failed attempts to reform the EU in order to see off the threat of Eurosceptics within his party, Archie Mitchell asks whether Keir Starmer will come to regret opening the door to reforming the ECHR

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander will accuse the Tories of an ‘appalling mess’ over the delayed rail project

Chancellor could look to stem the flow of wealthy taxpayers leaving UK after Britain experienced its most significant drop in billionaires ever last year

Keir Starmer said his sanctions would choke off Putin’s ability to continue his war

The author of a damning report also hit out at Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, saying she was ‘disappointed’ by the Conservatives’ response to her review of the scandal

Ignoring ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators gives racists ‘more ammunition’, says Baroness Casey

As the row over the spending review continues, the prime minister has washed his hands of expected large increases in local taxation

A ‘deeply disturbing’ report found organisations avoided race for fear of appearing racist or inflaming community tensions, Yvette Cooper said

Patrick Spencer, who has lost the Conservative party whip and been suspended from the party, accused of cupping women’s breasts at private members’ club

The Independent looks at the five big questions that will dominate the agenda at the summit

More than 100 Labour MPs could vote against Sir Keir Starmer’s welfare cuts

Blaise Metreweli is succeeding Sir Richard Moore, who leaves this autumn after four years in charge

Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Iran will pay ‘a very heavy price’ for civilian deaths

Exclusive: Just 46 per cent of young men support abortion in all or most cases, almost half as many as older generations

Rachel Reeves said Britain may play a military role in helping Israel as the conflict intensifies

The health secretary said it would be ‘foolish’ to rule out a greater role for the private sector in the NHS

Sir Keir Starmer confirmed Britain was moving military assets to the region as Iran warned UK bases would be targeted if it helped defend Israel

Conservative Party insiders were among those charged after bets were placed on the timing of the general election

There are fears more than 100 Labour MPs could rebel against the welfare cuts

Agreement marks a breakthrough after five years of tense negotiations over the border with Spain that have been ongoing since Britain left the bloc in 2020

Officers are investigating after a vehicle was abandoned near Downing Street

Chancellor Rachel Reeves insists she will never have to repeat last year’s Autumn Budget, when tax rises were announced

The Independent looks at what is in the spending review, and, crucially, what is not…

Home Office looks to former student accommodation to house migrants instead of hotels

Dr David Bull also called for burqas to be banned in the UK

Around 9 million pensioners will receive the winter fuel payment this winter

The Independent looks at all the times Sir Keir Starmer has let voters down or outright U-turned on his promises on the journey from Labour leader to prime minister

The Independent looks at what the spending review is, why the government has launched one and what is expected to be in it

Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives have attracted big-money donors even as they sink in the polls behind Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, official figures show

David Bull left the medical profession in 2009 as his television career took off, although his licence was temporarily restored to allow him to help out in the Covid crisis