Row between leader and deputy holds up reshuffle while Rachel Reeves’ promotion looks set to inflame tensions with party’s leftKeir Starmer handed his deputy, Angela Rayner, a major promotion on Sunday night after a day of fraught negotiations and powe…
Spread of Indian Covid variant has not deterred PM from return of cinemas and indoor hospitality and permitting mixing at homeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFriends and family will be able to hug and mix indoors from next w…
BloombergNEF forecasts result of falling cost of making batteries as well as dedicated production lines Electric cars and vans will be cheaper to produce than conventional, fossil fuel-powered vehicles by 2027, and tighter emissions regulations could p…
Senior figures such as Andy Burnham are backing the deputy leader who is believed to be furious over treatmentKeir Starmer’s leadership of the Labour party was plunged into crisis on Sunday as a plan to demote his deputy, Angela Rayner, was derailed by…
Tory Jonathon Seed, who was running in Wiltshire, was told 30-year-old offence debarred him, contradicting earlier assurancesA Tory candidate to be a police and crime commissioner (PCC) has withdrawn on the eve of counting after it emerged he had a 30-…
Emergency services attend scene on Grand Union near Park Royal as police cordon off areaThe body of a newborn baby has been found in the Grand Union canal in north-west London, police have said.The Metropolitan police said officers and paramedics were …
Police are looking for witnesses after the brawl inside the Oxford Street department storeEight people have been arrested after a brawl inside Selfridges in central London during which a man was stabbed in the leg.Those arrested include the injured man…
The Guardian’s former deputy editor recalls his time reporting from Belfast during the TroublesPaul Johnson has a vivid memory of one of his most dispiriting moments as the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent.It was April 1986 and he was covering a Democr…
Exclusive: US-owned warehousing and delivery company XPO Logistics has M&S and Asos among its clientsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA US-owned delivery and warehousing firm that counts Marks & Spencer and Asos among…
Scotland’s first minister makes assertion in phone call with Boris Johnson on Sunday evening • Elections 2021 live – latest news and reactionNicola Sturgeon has told Boris Johnson that a second independence referendum is “a matter of when, not if” afte…