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Replacing the £20-a-week increase in Universal Credit with a one-off payment of £500 is a “terrible” idea, Labour has said.

British humour, irony and sarcasm is much missed in the European Parliament since the UK left the EU, according to one German MEP.

Engineers are working to restore hundreds of thousands of police records that were accidentally deleted from the national database, the Home Office has said.

Closing schools has been one of the most painful consequences of the pandemic – the action Boris Johnson described as his “last resort”.

All travel corridors will close from Monday, meaning everyone arriving in the UK will have to self-isolate.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says he is the last person people should take travel advice from after he imposed quarantine restrictions on Spain within an… Read More »‘Don’t take travel advice from me,’ says transport sec after holiday debacle

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has resigned with immediate effect, just months before the next set of Scottish Parliament elections.

Downing Street has contradicted Home Secretary Priti Patel after she claimed people in England should only exercise alone during the current national lockdown.

Boris Johnson has defended his close relationship with Donald Trump, just hours before the outgoing president is expected to become the first US leader to… Read More »PM defends close relationship with Trump ahead of president’s impeachment vote

The prime minister has acknowledged there are “teething problems” with trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the wake of the Brexit transition period… Read More »PM acknowledges ‘teething problems’ with new GB-NI trade rules