Downing Street has rejected characterisations of its plans to reform the Civil Service as “taking a chainsaw to the system”.

At Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir Starmer said the blocking of aid into Gaza risks breaching international law.

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has spoken of her “sense of relief” after announcing she plans to step down next year. The former SNP leader, who led the Scottish government between ...

The teenager was charged by Northamptonshire Police on Tuesday night after an inquiry into the death of 43-year-old Marta Bednarczyk.

Labour MP Richard Burgon said disabled people are ‘frightened’ as he pleaded with the Prime Minister to make the ‘moral’ choice.

A partial lunar eclipse will take place in the UK just before dawn on Friday. The moon will darken as it moves into Earth’s shadow and will eventually turn red, earning its “blood moon” nickname. In a ...

Aristocrat Constance Marten posed as a freelance journalist called Caroline as she concealed her tragic newborn baby, a court has heard. Marten, 37, and her partner Mark Gordon, 50, are on trial at ...

Somali security forces have ended a 24-hour siege at a hotel in the central city of Beledwyne, leaving an unknown number of people dead, including all the al-Shabab militants who launched the attack, ...

The actor is suing Guardian News and Media over seven articles and a podcast containing allegations of sexual misconduct.

Four men have been convicted of attempting to smuggle £100 million of cocaine on a fishing boat off the coast of Cornwall. Michael Kelly, 45, from Portway, Manchester, and Jake Marchant, 27, of no ...