From Angela Rayner’s outstanding tax issues to Wes Streeting’s messages to Lord Mandelson, there’s no clear candidate to replace the prime minister

A bill opens the door to automatic voter registration, aiming to capture about seven million people missing from the electoral roll

Men’s champion and Tabitha Stoecker claim extraordinary victory in mixed team event to make it two golds in one day for Britain — and three overall

Police say they do not have the technology to crack online networks of crime groups where the bloodsport is organised, glorified and monetised

Gardeners are asked to hunt for the Mrs RO Backhouse variety as part of a nationwide effort to map blooms

The 86-year-old actor is busier than ever. He talks about the return of The Lord of the Rings and theatre’s future

Some 3,000 Hungarians died fighting Soviet rule in 1956, but now the country’s prime minister is Moscow’s biggest ally in the EU

A total of 66,587 companies were founded as vehicles for letting property in 2025, an 8 per cent increase on the previous year

In his first newspaper interview since 2019, the pop star as he’s never been seen before: off duty, in Italy — and photographed by Martin Parr

Final was like the Wacky Races but duo, who both endured disappointment in the individual events, win a second medal for Great Britain

Emerald Fennell’s film is better for its reinventions of a flawed novel — and it made me cry

Hungry caterpillars, beheadings, an eight-year-old who wants to be Putin… Chris Haslam’s journey was a ripping yarn to remember (with no tour group herding in sight)