Category: UK

Plans to ban junk food ads and to stop children buying high-caffeine energy drinks are among radical public health measures being drawn up by ministers [more…]

Keir Starmer has told Vladimir Putin that he started the war in Ukraine and could end it at any time after the Russian leader warned [more…]

A woman who held a poster depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts during a London protest against Israel’s war in Gaza has gone [more…]

Vladimir Putin has said that a western move to let Kyiv use longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would mean Nato would be “at war” [more…]

Opposition parties in Scotland have urged John Swinney to reverse unpopular cuts to free school meals and flat-rate rail fares after he suffered two defeats [more…]

Downing Street is pushing to launch the formal search for a new cabinet secretary within the next month amid frustration with Simon Case, who is [more…]

The UK government has ordered an independent public inquiry into the 1989 murder of the Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, one of the most controversial killings [more…]

The previous government’s decision to abandon community cohesion programmes in English schools was an act of “political vandalism”, according to one of the country’s most [more…]

Keir Starmer has been challenged to set out the impact of his decision to cut the winter fuel allowance for all but the poorest pensioners [more…]