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The Prime Minister has backed Angela Rayner after she admitted an underpayment of stamp duty on a seaside flat which prompted Opposition calls for her to resign..

The head of the police force that arrested Father Ted creator Graham Linehan said his officers are in “an impossible position” when dealing with statements made online, and should not be “policing toxic culture wars debates”..

Rylan Clark’s comments about immigration on ITV’s This Morning have sparked hundreds of Ofcom complaints..

The mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey has said a school phone ban would really have helped her daughter, as she launches a campaign for a statutory ban in schools..

The Tories will challenge the Government to rule out property tax rises in the autumn budget in a Commons vote..

The Queen has made her first public appearance since the revelation she fought off a man who groped her on a train when she was a teenager..

A woman who died after falling from a block of flats in Southampton has been named by police, as a murder investigation into her death continues..

The new Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said he wants to “reclaim” populism after a landslide victory that will see his party shift its politics to the left..

A career criminal was branded a “violent, inhumane coward” as he was jailed for a minimum of 45 years for killing a former prison officer..

The Government has defended the Online Safety Act after Elon Musk’s X said the legislation was threatening free speech..

The burden placed on school and college leaders and teachers has “never been higher”, a teaching union has warned..

A three-minute brainwave test could detect signs of memory problems linked to Alzheimer’s disease years before clinical diagnosis is possible, a trial has found..

More than 700,000 GCSE physics students could be without a specialist teacher, a report has warned..

Barclays has become the second UK bank to leave the industry’s global alliance for setting climate targets..

The song Golden from Netflix hit film KPop Demon Hunters has gone to number one in the singles chart, the first K-pop number one in 13 years..

Sir Keir Starmer has appointed one of Labour’s rising stars to a new role at the heart of Government, in a shake-up of his Downing Street operation as MPs return from their summer break..

The new chief constable of Merseyside Police has said he will use technology, including facial recognition, to allow police officers to spend more time on the beat..

A clay sculpture by comedian Johnny Vegas called Just Be There is to be unveiled at the British Ceramics Biennial..

Sir Keir Starmer has hailed the expansion of funded childcare in England amid warnings nurseries may not have enough staff to deliver the plan..

Protesters have again gathered outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Epping..