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Union boss Len McCluskey has accused Jewish community leaders of deliberately dragging out Labour’s anti-Semitism row – and claimed “Blairite” MPs were using the issue to try and split the party. Meanwhile Jeremy Corbyn’s team have made a formal complaint about seven newspapers, including the Daily Mail, for their coverage of his decision to lay a wreath…

It was nearing completion – with £200m of work already carried out – but the future of the Midland metropolitan hospital in Birmingham was thrown into flux when the construction giant Carillion collapsed in January. Now the Government has confirmed it will pick up the bill for the project to be completed – at a…

Bianca Millier-Cole, who writes about business start-ups and founded her own company, and Sacha Romanovitch, CEO at the professional services company Grant Thornton, discuss executive pay.

It’s been a year of strikes, delays, timetable chaos and cancellations: little wonder, then, that commuters are furious that regulated rail fares could go up by as much as 3.2% in January. That adds more than £100 to the price of some season tickets. As railway bosses said the increase was “underpinning a once in…

Another day, another shift in the row over what Jeremy Corbyn was doing in 2014 in a Tunis cemetery containing the graves of Palestinian fighters killed by Israel. Yesterday Mr Corbyn said he was present but didn’t think he was actually involved when a wreath was laid for those suspected of involvement in the Munich massacre of 1972. Today…

The England cricketer, Ben Stokes, walked free from court today. He was found not guilty of affray outside a nightclub in Bristol last September after a seven-day trial. He said he’d been acting in self-defence, or in the defence of others.

Dal Babu, a former chief superintendent in the Metropolitan Police, discusses what happened at Westminster.

Counter-terrorism officers are still questioning a 29-year-old British man who drove a small car into a security barrier in front of the Houses of Parliament early this morning, injuring pedestrians and cyclists. The police say the man, who’s not known to them, is not co-operating with the inquiry. Officers have been searching three properties in…

From the statue of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford to the confederate statues in the U.S., there’s a growing debate about the removal of monuments dedicated to controversial men. But in Edinburgh, rather than removal, the council has agreed to add more details to one of its most prominent statues – Henry Dundas – and his…

Sir VS Naipaul’s close friend and soon-to-be editor of the Daily Mail, Geordie Greig, was by the novelist’s bedside when he died. Here, he speaks about the man behind the novels.

The Nobel-Prize winning author Sir VS Naipaul has died at the age of 85. Sir Vidia, who was born in Trinidad, wrote more than 30 books, including his best known A House for Mr Biswas. He had frequent disagreements with fellow authors – including a famous falling out with Paul Theroux – who today described…

133 homeless people have died in the UK since October 2017 according to figures gathered by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. One of them was Jayne Simpson.

Refugees and asylum seekers from across the UK have been taking part in a youth choir as part of efforts to try and bring communities together.

A new play by the National Youth Theatre – ‘F Off’ – examines the complex relationships between young people and social media.