The UK's new security agreement with the US and Australia will make it safer and could create hundreds of new jobs, the new foreign secretary has said. The pact, known as Aukus, will see Australia being given the technology to...
The UK government must allow retailers to recruit HGV drivers from abroad to avoid a supply chain crisis that could ruin Christmas, a senior supermarket chain boss has warned. Richard Walker, Iceland’s managing director, said the UK faced a shortage of...
Boris Johnson has faced a barrage of criticism from MPs over the UK's role in Afghanistan, in an emergency House of Commons debate on the crisis. His predecessor as PM Theresa May said it was "incomprehensible" the UK was not...
The Jamaican government has called on the Home Office to halt a controversial deportation flight to the island nation scheduled to leave on Wednesday due to concerns over “importing” the Delta variant of Covid, the Guardian has learned. A flight is scheduled...
Covid vaccines will be offered to all 16- and 17-year-olds after new recommendations by the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said they will not need the consent of parents. The JCVI said 16- and 17-year-olds should be...
BREXIT will trigger an exodus of nations from the European Union, according to a poll after Lord Frost made one last stab at calling for re-negotiations with the bloc over the Northern Ireland Protocol. A huge 86 percent of voters...
Gareth Southgate’s tactics in dealing with sensitive culture war issues should be followed by politicians, a leading US pollster has argued as he warned Britain faces a potential descent into American-style polarisation. The England manager’s defence of his team taking the...
Senior doctors in England may refuse to do overtime if the government does not improve a 1% pay offer. The threat of industrial action comes after the Royal College of Nursing already said it would consider balloting for industrial action over a pay offer...
The EU’s disease control agency has called for swifter vaccination in Europe as the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid is forecast to account for 90% of all cases in member states by the end of August. Dr Andrea Ammon, the director...
The public will accept a delay to the 21 June ending of all Covid rules to avoid a damaging “yo-yo” of restrictions, Dominic Raab says – as thousands of weddings and other public events face cancellation. Pressure is growing on ministers to postpone the...
