Burnham says someone has to "rip the plaster off". From April 2030, the current triple lock goes, and the savings are earmarked for his National Care Service.

He guarded Ismail Haniyeh for Hamas. Britain gave him asylum, then a passport. Now German prosecutors say Mr X, as the courts call him, was involved in an alleged plot to attack Jewish community centres, Israeli diplomats and pro-Israel rallies in Europe, timed for the second anniversary of October 7. A judge granted him anonymity for 100 years. It took a newspaper query to fix that. The allegation facing Mr X is extraordinary. The unanswered question for Britain is how much of his past was known, and by whom, before the state gave him its protection and, eventually, its passport.

Britain has taken a leading role in preparing NATO for the battlefields of the future, bringing together hundreds of soldiers, engineers, coders and defence...

The Duke of Edinburgh has thanked the sailors, engineers and shipwrights helping to keep Britain’s Royal Navy supplied and ready for action, during a...