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Keir Starmer’s days as prime minister are numbered, Labour MPs have warned, after a week of fury over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador despite his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

Kemi Badenoch plans to force release of files to reveal what was known about links to Jeffrey Epstein

Government has ‘learned lesson’ of botched welfare overhauls but MPs say they will not back cost-saving measures

Draft proposals likely to ‘embed risk and inequality’, campaigners and urban planners say

Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British * UK politics live – latest updates The Reform UK candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection has refused to disown his claim that UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds are not necessarily British. Matthew Goodwin, a hard-right activist, was unveiled on Tuesday as the party’s candidate in the demographically diverse seat in south-east Manchester. Continue reading...

ALT: a baby is sitting in a car seat holding a piece of paper

In the search for stability, some western nations are turning to a country that many in Washington see as an existential threat

Good transport links and the quietly booming nuclear sector are helping the Cheshire town to thrive

The president’s fixation on ‘piece of ice’ Greenland carries an echo of Vladimir Putin’s claims about Crimea

Exclusive: Claire Waxman says justice system risks collapse and no other viable way to drastically reduce courts backlog

Exclusive: Voters say they have little confidence that government can control borders despite sharp falls in net migration

When clients started getting random calls about making personal injury claims, Jan and Michael Reed set out to discover who was stealing data from their family-run garage

Zelda Perkins was Harvey Weinstein’s PA – and has spent the last eight years campaigning against the non-disclosure agreements used to silence abused employees. Now she has won a major victory. Alexan...

After eight-year campaign by Perkins, a former PA for Weinstein, UK ministers have announced plans to stop bosses using NDAs to silence abused workers

As a musical about him opens at Liverpool’s Royal Court, Michael Cullen tells of hope, heart – and hitting rock bottom