Senior Labour peer says Keir Starmer must go…

A senior member of Labour’s Blairite wing has said Keir Starmer must be replaced as leader to give the party a chance of winning elections. Andrew Adonis - who served in the governments of Tony Blair…

Johnson heads to Hartlepool and pins poll success…

Boris Johnson has credited the UK’s Covid bounceback for Conservative successes in Thursday’s election, including capturing Hartlepool for the first time since the 1960s.In his first public response to the elections, the prime minister hailed…

Travel news – live: ‘Green list’ of safe…

Could UK travellers be given Covid screening tests to use abroad?Holiday-makers will finally learn which destinations they can visit this summer without having to quarantine for coronavirus upon return to the UK, when the government…

David Cameron faces grilling by MPs over Greensill…

David Cameron is to appear before MPs next week to be grilled over his lobbying of government ministers on behalf of failed finance firm Greensill Capital.The former prime minister will face sustained questioning by the…

Doctors call for changes to vaccination booking system…

Pregnant women are struggling to access coronavirus vaccinations nearly three weeks after the government made them eligible for the jab.Doctors’ leaders have now called for changes to the official booking system which is leaving expectant…

Row over Jersey fishing rights pits UK against…

London, Paris and Brussels were tonight at loggerheads in the first major trade dispute of the post-Brexit era, after Boris Johnson deployed gunships in the English Channel in response to the threat of a blockade…

Jersey news – live: French fishing vessels gather…

French boats protest off Jersey over post-Brexit fishing rightsFrance’s fishing fleet has descended on Jersey, after threatening to blockade the port of St Helier amid a post-Brexit fishing dispute with the island.At just before 7am…

Local elections 2021 – live: Polls open for…

Elections 2021 – when will we know the results?Polling stations have opened for voters across the country to cast their ballots in the biggest set of local and devolved contests in decades outside of a…