Some 9,885 people had been logged as making the journey from France as of Sunday, according to provisional Home Office figures for 2025.

Responding, environment minister Baroness Hayman of Ulloch said: “Regarding the company choosing KKR as its preferred bidder in the ongoing equity raise process, clearly Thames Water is a commercial ...

The sugar tax applied to fizzy drinks is set to be extended to milkshakes and similar treats under Government proposals. Plans to end the exemption from the levy for dairy-based drinks, as well as non ...

Jess Phillips has suggested she is open to co-operating with Rupert Lowe’s private inquiry into grooming gangs. The Home Office minister said she was “more than happy” to meet the Independent MP to ...

The Duchess of Sussex has said she is enjoying a new “honeymoon” feeling with Harry since the pair got “a little bit of breathing space” after stepping back from their royal duties.

A man with a “crazed attitude to sex” groomed a schoolgirl and then enjoyed watching others further degrade her in a “den of iniquity”, a judge has said. Ashley Darbyshire, 28, targeted his victim ...

Home Office minister Jess Phillips said she expects local inquiries into grooming gangs will “go further” than the five already announced. During an urgent question in the Commons, Ms Phillips also ...

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The organisers of a Glasgow-based music festival should “consider” if rap trio Kneecap should perform at this year’s event after video emerged of one of its members calling for the death of Tory MPs.

Belfast rap trio Kneecap are a “hate fest” that “promote division”, DUP leader Gavin Robinson has said. The Belfast East MP said that the promoter of a Kneecap gig in Belfast in August has questions ...

Police have arrested and charged a seventh person in connection with damage at US President Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course. The 27-year-old woman was arrested and charged in Ayr on Sunday and is ...

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said it was important for the Government ‘to take stock’ after the Supreme Court ruling and Cass report.