The Guardian Articles

UK health bosses privately admitted that a lack of border inspections in the wake of Brexit had left British consumers exposed to diseased meat, an investigation has found.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has previously uncovered a host of

failings in the government’s handling

Good morning. A new public accounts committee report has found that disability benefit claimants are receiving “unacceptably poor service” from the government, waiting on average 10 times longer than other claimants for their calls to be answered. Meanwhile, rising DWP underpayments are leaving many at greater risk of hardship.

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Valuable farmland will be protected from housing, solar panels and onshore wind under a new

land use framework

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, will announce a consultation into how the limited land in England should be used and where is best to farm, …

Narissara Jantasang’s nine-year-old son was brimming with excitement as he watched footage of Thai hostages being released from Gaza on Thursday. Then he noticed his mother had started to cry. “He asked me: ‘what’s going on, Mom?’” Narissara says. “He realised his dad was not one of those released.”

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• A Russian drone attack on a residential block killed nine people including three elderly couples in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Thursday.

  Images distributed by the emergency services showed a gaping hole in the facade of the long block of flats and rescue workers …

A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor has said he will return his federal order of merit to the German president in protest over MPs passing an anti-immigration motion in parliament with the support of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland.

Albrecht Weinberg, whose parents were murdered in Auschwitz, told the Guardian he was …

A couple who killed a woman and dumped her dismembered body in different parts of south London have been jailed for murder.

Steve Samson was out of prison on a life licence for the murder of a taxi driver in 1998 when he and his partner, Gemma Watts, killed Sarah …

A woman accused of spying for Moscow told the Old Bailey she believed she was working for Interpol after a man showed her a fake ID and told her he could enrol her at “police school in Wembley”.

On her first day of giving evidence, London-based Vanya Gaberova, a 30-year-old …

Voters in western democracies are turning away from mainstream political parties and towards populists because they are losing faith in their ability to implement meaningful change, a major report based on surveys of 12,000 voters has found.

The popularity of traditional centre-left and centre-right parties across major democratic countries has …

A minute’s silence for Mel Stride. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him at this difficult time. Mel has always operated near the margins of Westminster. A liminal presence teetering near the vanishing point where earth and sky meet.

His time as work and pensions secretary under Rishi Sunak …