More than 115,000 asylum seekers will be left in permanent limbo in the UK by the end of this year, costing taxpayers £17 million a day, according to detailed forecasts set out in a report. An ...

A “gang” of consultant neurosurgeons suppressed warnings about patient safety years before police were called in to investigate 40 patient deaths, a whistleblower has claimed. Mansoor Foroughi, a ...

Older homeowners who downsize should be exempt from paying stamp duty while those who own a second home should be financially penalised in an overhaul to tackle Britain’s housing crisis, a study has ...

At 1.14pm yesterday, exactly 23 hours and 59 minutes late, a French countdown reached “un”, an Ariane 5 rocket fired and the European Space Agency’s Juice mission disappeared over the Atlantic. It ...

The easiest thing for Trent Alexander-Arnold to do would have been to disappear and forget about everything. Liverpool’s limp Champions League exit against Real Madrid two weeks ago was still raw when ...

Everyone in Britain should be given a digital ID incorporating their passport, driving licence, tax records, qualifications and right to work as the cornerstone of a “technology revolution”, Sir Tony ...

A former Labour MP submitted fraudulent expense claims totalling £30,000 to part-fund an “extensive” cocaine habit, a court was told. Jared O’Mara, 41, who represented Sheffield Hallam between 2017 ...

The Russian army has become bogged down in eastern Ukraine and will not have enough troops to launch another offensive for several months, according to British intelligence. President Putin is ...

On Sunday Liz Truss invited Jeremy Hunt, her new chancellor, to Chequers. They had a meeting to work through their economic plans before enjoying lunch together with their families. The product of ...

The idea that we could use a vaccine to defeat cancer is not, says Ugur Sahin, chief executive of BioNTech, a new one. “We have had this thought for almost 100 years.” The concept is simple, he says. ...

At least 22 Covid-19 patients on ventilators in an Indian hospital died after a large tank supplying oxygen to the wards suddenly ruptured cutting off the flow. The main storage cylinder outside the ...

Vaccination centres and schools remained closed this morning after more snow coated the country during the coldest winter night in a decade. Temperatures plunged to minus 16.7C in the Highlands early ...