Sir Keir Starmer suggested to the House of Commons that the deal struck last month could come into effect ‘in just a couple of weeks’.

The UK Government will not change drug laws to allow more safe consumption rooms, even if a Glasgow-based pilot is a success, a minister has said.

The Chancellor said there were ‘good things’ that would not be able to happen due to the tight spending settlement.

His remarks came as Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch pressed Sir Keir to say how many pensioners would have their winter fuel payments restored and asked about the future of the two-child ...

The duchess, in a podcast released on Tuesday, had said she wanted to ‘just pause’ and wait until her brand was completely ready.

Security was tight on Wednesday around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where weeks of student-led protests shook the party in 1989.

Richard Satchwell has been given a life sentence for the murder of his wife at their home in Co Cork. The British truck driver, 58, had denied the murder of Tina Satchwell between March 19 and March ...

Painstaking work is taking place in an area a few miles from the Algarve resort where Madeleine was last seen in 2007.

Dorchester’s captain Jordan Ngalo has announced he will be leaving the Magpies after three seasons to play at a higher level ...

Two men have been charged with murder over a car crash in which a four-year-old boy died. Patrick Maughan, 53 and Owen Maughan, 27, both from Hill Rise, Darenth, are due to appear at Sevenoaks ...

Senior police chiefs have written to the PM warning they will be forced to make difficult choices if spending cuts are announced next week.

The Queen is to star in a new crime novel alongside her favourite fictional detective. Peter James’s latest Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thriller centres on a race to stop a killer at Buckingham ...