Kemi Badenoch is to call for health benefits to be restricted to people with the most serious conditions as she sets out her plans for welfare.

Sir Jake, who served as Tory chairman in Liz Truss’ short-lived government, said the Conservatives have ‘lost their way’.

The largest Reform-led council is due to unveil its “first big savings” from cost-cutting initiatives as opposition parties complain of “poor governance” during their first two months in power.

If you can work, you should,’ social security minister Sir Stephen Timms told MPs before they voted on the welfare reforms.

A recreation ground near remains closed after travellers who set up camp there moved on. The group of around five to six caravans arrived at Sprowston Recreation Ground on Monday.

No deaths were immediately reported, but three people had been taken to the hospital and were in stable condition.

Crews also in airboats, along with hundreds of volunteers, are part of one of the largest search operations in Texas history.

Lord Harrington, now a non-affiliated peer, apologised for miscalculating the period he had to give notice for jobs he took up after leaving office.

Plumber Sean O’Meara, 36, was wearing a gas-mask and body armour when he was shot and seriously injured by a police officer on Monday night ...

A five-year-old boy who died after an allergic reaction at school was accidentally exposed to cow’s milk protein – probably from his own bottle, an inquest jury has concluded.

The robot operated with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers in the US.