Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Search jobs
Sign in

UK latest news

  • Explosion nuclear bomb in ocean testing of atomic bomb over ocean with mushroom clouds - red destroy

    Many in US and western Europe think ‘third world war likely within five to 10 years’

  • Eluned Morgan, the first minister for Wales

    Eluned Morgan to set out ‘red Welsh way’ in speech criticising Starmer

    Exclusive: First minister of Wales hoping to counter threats to Welsh Labour from Reform and Plaid Cymru
  • Matt Jukes in front of the New Scotland Yard sign

    Two top job openings in UK policing get one applicant each

    Candidates for Merseyside chief constable and Met deputy commissioner set to be appointed without competition

  • X-ray reveals ancient Greek author of charred first century BC Vesuvius scroll

  • UK consumer confidence at lowest level since December 2022, says Which?

  • More than 1m older people in England waited over 12 hours in A&E last year

  • Pharmacists face daily inappropriate demands for antibiotics, survey finds

  • Wildfire destroys about 5,000 hectares of Dartmoor national park

  • Four Iranian men questioned over alleged major terror plot against British target

  • No 10 rethinking winter fuel payment cut after Labour slump in local elections

UK politics

  • Ukrainian flag and Union Jack fly on building close to the London Eye

    Reform accused of seeking ban on flying Ukrainian flags over council buildings

  • The global headquarters of HSBC in Canary Wharf

    UK ministers to meet bank bosses over lending to small businesses

    • HMRC under fire for taking more than four months to process tax refunds

    • Green deputy launches leadership bid with UK ‘eco-populism’ vision

    • MPs warn social care needs substantial investment to fix ‘broken’ system

    • Starmer praises ‘selfless dedication’ of armed forces before VE Day anniversary

    • Reform UK to resist housing asylum seekers in its council areas, chair says

    • Labour must avoid ‘naive’ lurch to right after Reform success, Haigh warns

Analysis and explainers

  • Keir Starmer

    Cuts leave voters doubting Labour’s ability to deliver change

  • Nigel Farage

    Now Farage not Starmer is feeding public’s appetite for change

  • Nigel Farage speaks while surrounded by journalists and photographers

    Reform UK’s victories are just the latest chapter of political fragmentation

  • Nigel Farage raising his arms in celebration

    Farage has declared a new dawn before, but this time things could really be different

Culture

  • People dressed as Storm Troopers in front of a Pinewood Studios sign

    Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry, ministers told

  • a winding river in a landscape with autumn foliage

    Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers

    Arachne Press says Afonydd (Rivers) was inspired by success of A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd
  • Lewis Capaldi in white T-shirt with acoustic guitar around his neck on stage at Glastonbury

    Lewis Capaldi makes surprise return to live performance at charity gig

    The Scottish musician breaks health-related hiatus with gig in support of the suicide prevention charity Calm

  • Ministers reconsider changes to UK copyright law ahead of vote

  • Exhibition of original Bob Dylan paintings to open in London

  • Edward II’s coronation roll goes on display alongside King Charles’s

  • Archaeological project maps historic boat sheds on Isles of Scilly

Education

  • Niamdh Braid gestures with her hands

    ‘The only thing we can’t do is hear’: the deaf pupil who beat Fife council in court

  • A photo of Ruth Perry

    Headteachers’ union takes legal action against Ofsted over inspection changes

  • Kaitlyn Regehr

    Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time

  • A teaching assistant helps a Send pupil learn to write with a pen and stencil

    Headteachers in England, Wales and NI say Send provision crisis is worsening

Society

  • A volunteers holds a donations bucket with the message: 'We are Macmillan Cancer Support'

    Macmillan accused of ‘betrayal’ over plan to axe cancer benefits advice service

  • Linda Geddes stood in front of a pile of food

    Online tests revealed I have a multitude of food sensitivity issues – but are they trustworthy?

    • Staff in hi-vis jackets guard the entrance to the Manston immigration short-term holding facility

      UK migrant centre sees sixfold rise in a year of staff sacked over failed drug tests

    • Claire Malcolm in a bright green hooded jacket inside an old hall

      UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers

    • Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch appearing on the BBC 1 current affairs programme, Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg

      Badenoch says more children, not immigration, will help with ageing population

Multimedia

  • King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales watch commemorations in London, with events also scheduled across the UK
    1:38

    Royalty, Red Arrows and Timothy Spall as Churchill: UK marks 80th anniversary of VE Day – video

  • prince and princess of wales and family watch a fly-past at buckingham palace

    VE Day celebrations and a duck in St Peter’s Square: photos of the day – Monday

    • Andrea Jenkyns and Nigel Farage unfurl a union flag after her victory in Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty race. Photo by Lia Toby/Getty Images

      Farage here to stay: the local elections that changed everything – Politics Weekly Westminster

    • Pilgrims dressed in Knights Templar attire parade in St Peter’s Square

      Kim Jong-un’s tank and Knights Templar: photos of the weekend

    • Prince Harry's grievance does not translate into a legal challenge, says judge – video

Most viewed