Sam Freedman, who worked as a policy adviser to former education secretary Michael Gove, said he had ‘a lot of worries’ about the proposals.

Bad medical care and natural causes led to the deaths of babies said to have been harmed by Lucy Letby, a panel of international medical experts have concluded. On Tuesday, the team of 14 ...

Thousands of people have added £35 million to their State Pension pots by filling in gaps in their National Insurance record, HMRC has announced. A combined 68,673 years have been added to people’s ...

The Queen has claimed victory in a mini F1 race and enjoyed a fanfare of fireworks and singing as she opened a school in east London. By the time Camilla cut the purple ribbon to officially open the ...

The Energy Secretary says he recused himself from the decision to rubber-stamp the Ecotricity project in Lincolnshire ...

A row that disrupted parliamentary procedures to elect an Irish premier has been resolved after an intervention from the speaker of the Dail chamber. A Government spokesperson said they accepted Ceann ...

The Met’s Costume Institute also announced on Tuesday that it will be reviving what it called a longstanding tradition of a “host committee” — basically a new slate of high-profile celebrities on top ...

Recent scandals engulfing the Church of England have resulted in “huge reputational damage”, a bishop has said, adding that it feels as if the Church is “being purified”. Philip North, the Bishop of ...

In the second week of commemorative hearings for the victims, Omagh Bombing Inquiry chairman Lord Turnbull told Mr Gallagher that he is known to governments around the world, as well as senior ...

Kerr, 31, is on trial charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to Pc Stephen Lovell after calling him ‘stupid and white’.

Knife crime involving teenagers is a ‘national crisis that needs a national response’, the former children’s commissioner for England ...

Sir John Major was among the dignitaries who attended a memorial service for Lord Hoyle in Westminster on Tuesday.