Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. The apparent error appears in a chapter on net zero in The Right Way, a 100-page policy document produced for the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Badenoch repeatedly used the phrase in her main speech. Continue reading...

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

The former Manchester mayor praised the club's owners for their investment in the region, saying he was 'concerned' they might leave the UK over cheating case

The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

Russian intelligence agents are “hijacking” online networks of violence-obsessed children and offering them money, guns and coaching on making explosives and poisons, new research suggests. Law enforc...

Examining Chinese state influence in UK public life.

These CEOs earn seven-figure salaries and insist their water quality is 'excellent'. Yet they have suddenly become very hard to reach...

Government resilience campaign aims to ensure people can cope in a national disaster, in order to free resources for most vulnerable UK citizens will be told to stock up on tinned food and take steps to ensure they are prepared for national emergencies as part of a new government campaign to improve the nation’s resilience. The new campaign from the Cabinet Office will set out ways people can prepare for extreme weather events and potential attacks from hostile states, including stocking up on bottled water, sources told the Guardian. Continue reading...

I can count the amount of friends and family who watch the Saudi Pro League on no hands

The tradition on a Carmarthenshire river once fished by US President Jimmy Carter could be coming to an end.

The 62-year-old man is remanded in custody and will appear at Norwich Crown Court on 14 September.

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?

Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were located overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US More than half the accounts that posted on Elon Musk’s X about the rioting in Belfast and the civil disorder in Southampton in June were based outside the UK, an analysis by the Guardian can reveal. Of the 8,672 accounts whose combined posts about the events exceeded 1,000 views, just 45.3% were shown as from the UK, according to the social media platform’s own location function. Continue reading...

Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling

I was attacked for a second time in a year while covering the Thetford riots, here's what happened and why I'm going back.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy

The standard-bearer for clubs outside the established elite are firmly in the spotlight this summer transfer window

The Metropolitan Police are investigating donations made to the party by Fiona Cottrell, mother of the fraudster ‘Posh George’, who has been funding Nigel Farage

Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage

As Andy Burnham promises “breathing space” for households, millions are unable to buy items such as clothing, heating and food.

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK