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The Foreign Office recommended that David Lammy endorse a trade mission to Israel, days after he suspended trade talks and rebuked the country’s government, internal documents…

Mark Sedwill has emerged as the frontrunner to become the UK’s ambassador to the US, according to senior government figures.The former cabinet secretary and national security…

The UK is expected to slash its contribution to a leading aid fund combating preventable diseases, with charities warning this could lead to more than 300,000…

Last-minute changes to the government’s landmark planning bill have sparked a furious backlash from nature groups who have mounted an attack on the chancellor, Rachel Reeves,…

Ministers are making it easier to build new windfarms, reservoirs and large housing developments as part of a series of changes to the government’s planning and…

There is a baffling contradiction at the heart of the efforts of Dan Jarvis, the security minister, to explain why the prosecution of two Britons accused…

Once, before the election, Labour’s approach to China was forthright. The party promised to declare China’s systematic repression of its Uyghur Muslim minority as a genocide.…

Millions of people aged 50 or over in the UK are predicted to have undiagnosed sight or hearing problems, prompting calls for that age group to…

Iain Coleman, the former MP for Hammersmith and Fulham, who has died aged 67, was renowned within his west London constituency for a policy of free social…

Rachel Reeves is set to announce a round of planning changes before the budget as a way to kickstart Britain’s sluggish economic growth, but ministers are…