Military and financial support for Ukraine has become increasingly contentious. The government in Berlin is still very much ...

We sat down with the health secretary Wes Streeting and started the interview by putting it to him that we won’t find out ...

In just over 100 days, Bradford will become the UK’s City of Culture – the fourth to hold the title after Londonderry, Hull and Coventry. The first programme of events was launched today “promising to ...

Total government debts are expected to almost triple over the next fifty years, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility. It has warned that this means the public finances are on an ...

We were joined by Sarah Woolnough, chief executive of the Kings Fund, and Philip Banfield, an obstetrician and council chair at the British Medical Association.

They show that life expectancy has stagnated in the UK. We are an international outlier, as around two-thirds of advanced economies have seen increases in life expectancy in the last decade. The ...

Scotland’s only oil refinery at Grangemouth will stop production next summer, putting hundreds of jobs at risk. One union described the decision as an act of industrial vandalism, accusing politicians ...

On the third day of the inquiry into how nurse Lucy Letby was able kill seven babies, the hearing has been told by a barrister representing victims’ families that “basic failures” at the Countess of ...

‘Broken but not beaten’ was the prime minister’s summary of the health service today as he listed ways to rebuild it. Moving more care to the community and moving from sickness to prevention were ...

A VAT charge on private school fees is planned to be introduced from January 2025 – which will affect 6% of UK children who ...

It’s the last school term before one of the new government’s most debated pledges kicks in – VAT on private school fees will be charged across the UK from January. Many independent schools argue it ...

Playing video games is incredibly popular – more than half the world’s population are gamers. Amongst children it’s estimated 84 per cent of those aged 11 to 14 are playing. And it’s a growing ...