Sir Keir Starmer hopes a policy blitz including a promise to construct new towns will help revive Labour’s fortunes.

Plaid Cymru’s ambition of an independent Wales could drag the country back into austerity, Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens is expected to argue at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool this weekend.

Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov spoke as unauthorised flights into Nato’s airspace — intrusions blamed on Russia — have raised alarm around Europe in recent weeks, particularly after Nato jets downed ...

A man has died and seven other people received treatment after a suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a takeaway in Walsall, West Midlands Police said. Officers attended the shop in Cresswell ...

Congratulations are pouring in, led by the Prince and Princess of Wales, for England’s Red Roses who have won the Women’s Rugby World Cup. They crushed Canada 33-13 in a dominant display, watched by a ...

George Galloway has been detained at Gatwick Airport under the terrorism Act. The former MP and his wife, Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, were “allowed on their way” after being stopped by counter terrorism ...

A man has been charged with murder after the body of a missing person was found in a derelict building in south-east London, police have said. Junior Ryan Coleman, 43, was reported missing on August ...

At midnight on Sunday GMT, barring any last-minute diplomatic breakthrough, UN sanctions on Iran will be reimposed through “snapback”, as the mechanism is called by the diplomats who negotiated it ...

Some members of the Israeli government will be banned from entering Ireland, the Irish premier has said at the UN. Taoiseach Micheal Martin was addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Friday ...

The group backed an SNP motion calling for an end to the two-child benefit cap, though four of the rebels – Ian Byrne, Richard Burgon, Imran Hussein and Rebecca Long-Bailey – had the whip reinstated ...

Andy Burnham has raised “legitimate concerns” about Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, the mayor of London has said. Mr Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, made a series of headline-grabbing ...

A 24-year-old police officer has died a week after he was injured while responding to a car crash. Northamptonshire Pc Faizaan Najeeb was attending a single-vehicle crash in Station Road, Raunds, at ...