John Swinney is “confident” he will win a vote to be elected as first minister on Tuesday. The SNP was returned as the largest party at Holyrood in this month’s election, winning 58 seats, but falling ...

Sir Keir Starmer insisted he would not set out a timetable to leave No 10 as Andy Burnham vowed to “change Labour” if he is successful in his effort to return to Parliament. The Prime Minister said he ...

US PGA Championship winner Aaron Rai’s old form tutor remembers him as an utterly determined youngster, who was regularly picked up by his father from school to head straight to golf practice. Kathy ...

Andy Burnham hopes to use the Makerfield by-election to return to Parliament where he could mount a challenge to Sir Keir Starmer.

Two 24-hour strikes planned by London Underground drivers this week have been called off. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) were due to walk out at 12 noon tomorrow and again on ...

Jakub Jan Konkel, 40, was sentenced to 13-and-a-half years for concealing 90kg of the drug, worth £7m, alongside a legitimate load of ...

The Prime Minister said he would support the contender ‘whoever they are’ to see off the threat from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) updated its growth projections a month after warning of a sharp slowdown caused by the global energy shock.

A much-loved bookshop in Beccles, Books and Crannies, is set to close after nearly six years on the high street.

The inquest found that British Army soldiers ‘did not use reasonable force’ in the shooting of five people in west Belfast in 1972.

A Spanish court has acquitted Colombian singer Shakira in a tax fraud case, ordering the government to return more than 55 million euros (£48 million) in wrongly imposed fines, a court document said.

The President of Ireland has said there is “hardly a sector” of British life that has not been influenced by the Irish as she began a visit to the UK in which she is expected to meet the King.