The plan to lift all Covid restrictions later this month could be blown “off track” by surging infections, the government has admitted, with the case for pressing ahead now “ambiguous”.As the number of new cases…

Boris Johnson has been dealt a major blow as the schools’ coronavirus catch-up tsar quit his post in protest at a funding package he described as falling “far short of what is needed” to aid…

A teenager was stabbed by a gang using large knives during a mass brawl in London's Hyde Park.Emergency responders arrived to the busy park to find the 17-year-old lying on the grass after reports of…

Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister David Frost has said trade arrangements for Northern Ireland previously agreed with the EU are not “sustainable” in their current form.Lord Frost also called on Brussels chiefs to show more “common sense” to…

A man has been detained indefinitely for the "brutal" killing of a hotel receptionist after she "smiled" at him the wrong way.Stephen Cole, 32, attacked Marta Elena Vento, a 27-year-old Spanish national who was working…

Sir Keir Starmer has said he is listening to Tony Blair’s advice that Labour needs “total deconstruction and reconstruction” to revive as a political force, as he admitted the party’s “titanic” job of winning power.In…

A man has been arrested on a farm in Hallington, Lincolnshire following the murder of a woman and her son.Daniel Boulton, 29, was detained at lunchtime on Tuesday in what detectives described as “a tragic,…