Ministers are also said to be mulling over plans to place a retirement age of 80 on members of the House of Lords.

Reform UK, which has sought to gain from public dissatisfaction about migration, will reveal its plans to tackle the small boats crisis.

Analysis from global tax firm Ryan indicated that inflation and a new government tax change will combine to drive up business rates bills.

A British explorer is attempting to travel the full length of one of the longest rivers in the world. Ash Dykes, 34, will journey 3,400 miles (5,400km) along China’s Yellow River, from its source to ...

This year’s Notting Hill Carnival has seen far fewer incidents of serious violence than in recent years, the Metropolitan Police said. There have so far been 423 arrests over the two main days, ...

Three celebrities have successfully completed the course in the latest Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins series. At the start of the series, 14 famous faces took on special forces training in an attempt ...

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the New Homes Accelerator was ‘breaking down the barriers’ stopping new homes from being built.

Mr Farage described international treaties governing human rights law as ‘malign influences’ which had been ‘allowed to ...

Elon Musk has targeted Apple and OpenAI in a lawsuit alleging that the iPhone maker and the ChatGPT maker are teaming up to thwart competition in artificial intelligence (AI).

Wales and Northern Ireland have recorded their warmest August bank holiday Mondays on record – but wet weather is on the way. Temperatures reached 29.1C in the village of Hawarden in Flintshire and 24 ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he was ‘horrified’ by the attack on Nasser Hospital, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said an Israeli strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was a “tragic mishap”. He said that Israel ...