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The Ontario premier, Doug Ford, has said an early election is needed in the Canadian province in order to fend off an income “attack” from Donald Trump as a trade war looms between the close allies.

But opposition parties criticized the move, calling it a “distraction” from an ongoing criminal …

Wes Streeting is to criticise Nigel Farage for pushing a “miserabilist, declinist” vision of Britain, arguing it is time to start fighting a battle of ideas against the rightwing populists.

In a speech on Saturday the health secretary will say failing public services have been a “fertiliser of populism” because …

The UN has expressed concern that the ceasefire in Gaza could be endangered by Israel’s assault on the West Bank city of Jenin, which has involved what the UN human rights spokesperson labelled “unnecessary or disproportionate use of force”.

Thameen al-Kheetan of the UN human rights office called Israeli tactics …

Hamas has published the names of four Israeli women being held captive in Gaza who it plans to release this weekend as part of the continuing ceasefire agreement between the armed group and Israel.

The group are all female IDF observation troops who were abducted by Hamas from their base …

Ian Murray, the Scottish secretary, has become the first cabinet minister to take full paternity leave as Labour prepares to roll out new workplace rights for parents.

Murray and his wife Mariam are expecting their second child in the next few weeks, and he will be taking two weeks off …

In the bars, hotels and windowless conference halls of the World Economic Forum in Davos, two themes dominated the conversation: America’s ascendancy and Europe’s decline.

If the scale of the continent’s problems was unclear before politicians and chief executives descended on the Swiss ski resort, there was no ambiguity by …

The number of women in the Irish cabinet has fallen from four to three, dealing a further blow to the country’s reputation on gender equality in politics.

“There are now as many men named James in the cabinet as there are women,” the Social Democrat MP Jennifer Whitmore said, after …

“Alexander” has a secret: he listens to someone online and fears that – if this were to become public knowledge – he could lose his job. Friendships too.

Alexander is not listening to the whispers of a radical Islamist or pre-millenarian preacher, nor the ranting of neo-Nazis on the dark …

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Bank of England

Before a crunch interest rate decision on 6 February, an influential business survey …

An activist singled out by Keir Starmer as an environmental “zealot” who must be stopped from making “vexatious” legal claims that thwart growth, has accused the prime minister of trying to lock people out of the planning process.

Andrew Boswell, a 68-year-old former Green councillor, insisted his two-year legal fight …