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Church of England bishops who sit in the House of Lords by right should be removed as part of the government’s changes to the second chamber, according to the veteran legislator Harriet Harman.

Harman, who was a Labour MP for more than 40 years until 2024, has put forward an …

Two MPs received VIP tickets for the sold-out World Darts Championships courtesy of a betting company – weeks after a

national outcry over politicians accepting freebies

Labour MP James Frith, who has campaigned for safer gambling, and Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, the deputy speaker of the House …

In the heady mountain air of

Davos

On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, representatives of aid agencies, development banks and multilateral lenders grabbed a moment …

The head of a prominent US Jewish civil rights body said Elon Musk’s repeated fascist-style salute during Donald Trump’s inauguration could act as a spur for violent extremists.

“The salute itself should be enough to warrant condemnation and attention,” said Amy Spitalnick, adding that so should “the ways extremists see …

Rachel Reeves has indicated her support for building a third runway at Heathrow, arguing that it would have environmental benefits such as fewer planes circling London.

Ahead of a major speech on economic growth this week, the chancellor made the case for Heathrow expansion and said there was “huge investment” …

The pharmaceutical watchdog has reprimanded Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk for failing to correctly disclose dozens of payments to the UK health sector as it sought to boost sales of its slimming drugs.

The Danish drug giant –

Europe’s most valuable listed company

Andrew Moss despairs, even now, when he thinks back to the end of January 2020. It was a painful, traumatic time for anyone building an export business in the UK.

On 30 January, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a public health emergency of ­international concern. The ­following day, the …

From a modern control room high above the canal expansion – overlooking the Cocolí locks, then lakes, rainforest canopy and, eventually, the Atlantic ocean – it barely registers that the era of gunboat diplomacy is returning to the

Panama canal

But four days into Donald Trump’s second …

As the first flight touched down on the fresh tarmac at Gwadar, it was hailed by Pakistan’s government as a step towards “progress and prosperity”. The newly opened airport – now the largest in the country – built in Pakistan’s troubled Balochistan province was “a symbol of the cooperation between …

• The US has not stopped military aid to Ukraine

  after newly sworn in US secretary of state

  Marco Rubio announced he would pause foreign aid grants for 90 days

  , Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. The Ukrainian leader did not clarify whether humanitarian aid had been …