Red tape in the UK’s financial industry can help “flush out” excessive profits, but should not cap the amount that banks earn ...

US President Donald Trump has backtracked on plans to charge ships for using the Strait of Hormuz, saying Gulf countries would instead invest in the United States. Meanwhile, another wave of US ...

Andy Burnham said a “serious review” was needed into MPs’ security following the suspected murder of Ann Widdecombe. The incoming prime minister said politics has “darkened” in the near decade since ...

Independent bookshop Heywood Hill is known for its reading consultations where visitors list their literary tastes to receive a ...

Labour MP Ian Byrne, who was at Hillsborough during the fatal crush, was visibly emotional as he spoke in the chamber.

A jury found Mr Trump attacked E Jean Carroll in 1996 in a New York department store dressing room and defamed her after she ...

Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander said King Charles had negotiated with President Donald Trump to have US tariffs on Scotch lifted.

Sir Keir Starmer promised to continue championing the causes he took up in public office as he prepares to leave No 10.

The son of one of 29 servicemen who died in the 1994 RAF Chinook helicopter crash has said that a High Court judge’s ruling throwing out a bid to bring a legal claim against the Ministry of Defence ...

Controversial plans to convert a Crewe family home into a ‘cramped’ 13-bed HMO have been refused with planners concerned about poor ...

Donald Trump has climbed down over his threat to levy a 20% toll on shipping for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz waterway, which had been opposed by the UK. The US president said the ...

Edinburgh’s Princes Street will remain closed into festival season following a major fire at the former Debenhams store, the ...