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Kemi Badenoch has said the UK is getting poorer and people should be honest that it is failing to compete with the rest of the world.

In a speech billed as the Conservative leader confronting the party’s mistakes in government, Badenoch failed to offer a specific apology but said that …

Keir Starmer has announced a “historic” 100-year partnership with Ukraine, saying the UK would support the country “beyond this terrible war” and into a future where it is “free and thriving again”.

Speaking during his first trip to Kyiv as prime minister, Starmer said the unprecedented agreement reflected the “huge …

The nature of Israel’s febrile coalition politics has long favoured theatrics. The standing and psychology of its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, adds a further element of panic and cynical calculation.

All those characteristics were in evidence as Israel and Hamas edged towards a ceasefire deal, particularly in Netanyahu’s struggle to …

Ministers have ordered an urgent national review of the scale of grooming gangs and will also help councils run their own local inquiries into the issue, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has announced.

While ministers have faced sustained pressure to order a new national inquiry into the gangs, officials stress …

If there is one thing the EU knows about Donald Trump, it is that he loves tariffs. The incoming president has said “tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary” and has threatened to impose them on US allies around the world.

On the campaign trail he proposed tariffs …

A teenager has been found guilty of the murder of a 15-year-old girl after a row over a teddy bear.

Hassan Sentamu, who is now 18, admitted manslaughter after stabbing Elianne Andam in the neck outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south London, in September 2023.

He denied murder, claiming …

A ceasefire to end the 15-month war in Gaza has been welcomed by British Palestinian and British Israeli and Jewish communities, with the government being urged to now support the injured and launch a family reunification scheme.

The chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, described the ceasefire agreement, which will enable the …

Syrians in Germany have called on the government to allow them to travel to their home country for short visits without risking their protection status, as questions mount over how the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime will affect the millions of Syrians who live in Europe.

More than a month …

Britain should offer Donald Trump a state visit only on the condition he agrees to a sit-down summit with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as part of an openly transactional US-UK relationship with the returning president, Ed Davey has said.

In a speech in which the Liberal Democrat leader also