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Angela Rayner has insisted Labour’s flagship

package of workers’ rights

The deputy prime minister said that company bosses who were critical of the proposals needed to “get on board” because …

Political and business leaders descended on Paris this week for the third annual artificial intelligence summit with the technology causing tensions across the globe.

Emmanuel Macron, who opened the summit with a montage of deepfakes of himself, acknowledged AI’s potential to “disrupt”. A day later, the schism threatened by the …

Forget gazpacho, patatas bravas or the tang of paprika in your chorizo. Such dishes may be considered staples of the Mediterranean diet but a new exhibition celebrating Spain’s oldest surviving cookbook suggests medieval Spanish cuisine was nothing like its modern successor.

Dating from 1324, almost 170 years before Christopher Columbus …

The UK government will “wait and see” whether tariffs announced by Donald Trump “actually come to pass”, a senior minister said.

The US president announced what he called “reciprocal tariffs” on all other countries on Thursday evening, claiming it was “fair to all”.

But it was unclear how this would …

The start of the Munich security conference has a habit of being disrupted by a display of power by Vladimir Putin. In 2022, the transatlantic security establishment gathered in the knowledge that Putin was days from launching his attack on Kyiv. In 2023, the opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in …

The government seemed to give a strong steer that it wanted the Competition and Markets Authority to do things differently when it

ousted its chair

His headline demand that

My father, Geoff Marsh, who has died aged 92, was a senior figure in the world of plumbing, a past master of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers (WCoP), past president of the Institute of Plumbing (IoP) and the first chair of the World Plumbing Council.

Among his many achievements was …

Thirteen more oil and gas licences could be cancelled as ministers decide new guidance for fossil fuel extraction after a landmark court case, the Guardian has learned.

The admission that many more licences may ultimately be unlawful comes on the back of cabinet tensions over the future of two major …

The US government has released a new audio recording that appears to capture the moment the Titan

submersible

A …

Rachel Reeves has “dealt with any issues that arise” from her career in retail banking, Keir Starmer has said, after claims the chancellor misused expenses and made inaccuracies on her CV.

Reeves’s career history has been called into question after a BBC investigation revealed she worked at the Bank of …