Politics

The anti-corruption watchdog has said ministers and senior civil servants could be banned from lobbying for up to five years after leaving office and face penalties if they break the rules.

Kent County Council has said that its children’s services have been so overwhelmed by the arrival of unaccompanied child migrants that it has had to stop looking after them from today. 

Ivo Daalder was the US ambassador to Nato under the Obama administration.

The 30 nations of Nato have today agreed that China poses a “constant security challenge” and it threatens to undermine the global rules-based system.

Just after the prime minister’s announcement, we spoke to James’ lead singer Tim Booth and began by asking him how his planned gigs would be affected.

What will keeping the restrictions in England have on businesses like nightclubs, which have already been closed for more than 15 months?

One of the most vocal critics of the government’s lockdown policies from the Tory benches is Sir Charles Walker

We spoke to Sage advisor Prof Sir Mark Walport

As infections have started to rise again, the Prime Minister said he had no choice but to delay lifting remaining lockdown restrictions in England until a greater proportion of the adult population is fully vaccinated.

Croydon, one of the boroughs worst hit by this type of violence, is now taking a different approach, one that favours communication and community policing. But is it enough to stop the bleeding?

That’s it from the G7 summit in Cornwall. Will it go down in history as America’s big comeback – egging on the world’s richest democracies to do their bit against Covid, Climate change and China and thus save those very democracies from extinction? Or will it be remembered as the week when the host Boris…

South Africa’s president has said vaccines are “desperately needed now” as the country faces a third wave of coronavirus. In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News, President Cyril Ramaphosa, the only African head of state at the G7 summit in Cornwall, said “much more” was needed from G7 leaders to tackle coronavirus. Mr Ramaphosa…

World leaders have jetted off from the G7 summit in Cornwall after a final session discussing climate change. Before his own trip to see the Queen, Joe Biden waxed lyrical about how pleased he was with the summit and how the leaders were all getting on so well. He probably wasn’t referring to the row…

The G7 leaders have been discussing China as part of a wider pushback against Beijing over human rights, Taiwan and the origins of the Covid pandemic. We spoke to Lisa Curtis, who was US National Security Council senior director for south and central Asia under Donald Trump and Noah Barkin, who founded the Watching China…

After a day of elbow bump greetings and meetings with the royal family, today it was down to business at the G7 summit in Cornwall, as the leaders held a series of bilateral meetings. Boris Johnson insisting he wanted “pragmatism and compromise on all sides” in the row over post Brexit trade arrangements with Northern…