Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.

Election called after rightwing parties voted down emergency legislation aimed at tackling housing crisis * Europe live – latest updates Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced a snap general election three days after rightwing parties torpedoed the emergency legislation his minority government had put forward in response to growing public anger over the country’s housing crisis. Sánchez, who has been in office since 2018, used a televised address to communicate his decision, which had been widely expected. Continue reading...

The vote has caused divisions among figures at the top of the party at its conference in Brighton.

The motion - passed at the Green Party conference - was opposed by a number of senior figures, including one of the party's deputy leaders. Meanwhile, the Conservative Party conference has begun, and ...

The move is a U-turn on radical plans to cut thousands of jury trials across England and Wales in a bid to tackle the court backlog

Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup

Polls suggest the election will be a closely run contest between the left-wing incumbent and his right-wing rival.

With sectarian forces increasingly seeking to divide us, we must come together to fight for security, fairness and tolerance, says Labour MP for Finchley and Golders Green Sarah Sackman

The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Tory leader rejects ‘double taxation’ but says she won’t promise a cut until showing how she would pay for it

Badenoch says current threshold, introduced by previous Conservative government, punishes parents for working more

On 4 October 1936, five thousand men in black shirts assembled to march through the East End of London. It was a deliberate provocation, aimed squarely at the Jewish community living there and it had ...