Richard Flanagan, who won the Booker Prize for fiction in 2014, has become the first author in history to achieve the “unprecedented double” after being named the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said he has “no plans” to join the Bluesky social media platform. The Prime Minister told reporters that “at the moment” there are no plans to establish official Government ...

Russia’s “irresponsible rhetoric” on nuclear weapons will not deter UK support for Ukraine, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Vladimir Putin has lowered the threshold for nuclear weapons on the 1,000th day ...

The Taoiseach has branded as chilling a manifesto pledge from Sinn Fein to commission a review of RTE’s objectivity in its coverage of international conflicts. Mr Harris said the proposed examination ...

Croatia will hold a presidential election on December 29, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has announced. Authorities are yet to formally set the vote. If no candidate wins an outright majority on ...

Many farmers protesting over changes to inheritance tax are “wrong” about the policy, the Environment Secretary has said. Steve Reed rejected claims that the Government has underestimated how many ...

Tim Roca, the Labour MP for Macclesfield, tabled the adjournment debate and urged authorities in the UAE to free Mr Cornelius “as a gesture of friendship”. He described the case as “the arbitrary ...

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Howard Lutnick, head of brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and a cryptocurrency enthusiast, as his nominee for commerce secretary. The position is ...

Eric Trump made the comments in an interview with the PA news agency at the Trump International Golf Links in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire.

The Competition and Markets Authority said a provisional investigation found the link between the two companies did not meet the merger threshold.

Senior Labour figure Lord Mandelson urged the Prime Minister to use Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as ‘a bridgehead’ to Donald Trump.

More than 70 businesses, including Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s, have told Rachel Reeves Budget tax hikes mean price rises are a ‘certainty’.