Labour’s new deputy leader Lucy Powell has urged Sir Keir Starmer to be bolder and give a “stronger sense of our purpose”. Ms ...

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched nine missiles and 62 drones, and air defences intercepted four missiles and 50 ...

Reform MP Sarah Pochin has hit out at “woke” adverts “full of black people”. The Runcorn and Helsby MP said it “drives me mad” and claimed the “average white family” was no longer represented. Labour ...

Officers made 26 arrests and recovered eight stolen vehicles in three days targeting the criminal use of roads in Essex.

Among the political names mentioned in the race for the Aras were Taoiseach Michael Martin, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald, Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle ...

A former Labour Treasury minister and the first director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Lord Taverne became a Lib Dem peer in 1996.

An asylum seeker accidentally released from prison was last seen in the London area, police said, as officers urged anyone who spots him to call 999 immediately. Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie ...

Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys said her family was subject to “awful sectarian abuse” during the campaign. Ms Humphreys, who conceded defeat to Catherine Connolly before the final ...

Heather Humphreys has congratulated Catherine Connolly as she looked secure to become the next president of Ireland by a significant margin. Ms Connolly said earlier on Saturday that she was ...

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was convicted of the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl eight days after arriving in the UK.

The Your Party co-leader said she was in active talks with Scots politicians and hopes to make an announcement ‘very soon’.

A hospital has performed a record number of pioneering prostate procedures in one day in a bid to help curb NHS waiting lists ...