Bridget Phillipson refused to say whether a small business owner earning around £13,000 in net profit would count as a working person.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s conservative ruling party is braced for a blow to its comfortable majority in elections to the lower house of parliament amid public rage over financial ...

Sir Chris Hoy has revealed his “selfless” wife kept her multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis a secret as they dealt with his cancer treatment. Sir Chris, one of Britain’s most successful Olympians, ...

The Education Secretary has said she is “open-minded” to a ban on smacking children, but she added there are no imminent plans to change the law.

An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base that experts have in the past linked to Tehran’s ...

Georgia’s pro-Western opposition disputed the results of the parliamentary election after officials declared the ruling party ...

Bella, the four-year-old olde tyme bulldog crossbreed, was brought into the care of the RSPCA by an inspector on welfare grounds. She has been described by staff at the RSPCA Suffolk Central branch in ...

Michelle Obama has challenged men to support Kamala Harris’s bid to be America’s first female president, warning that women’s ...

Israeli strikes on northern Gaza have killed at least 22 people, Palestinian medical officials said. The Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service said 11 women and two children were among those killed ...

According to the latest opinion polls, Bulgarians’ lack of confidence in elections will result in a record-low voter turnout. Gallup World Poll data shows only 10% of Bulgarians trust the integrity of ...

Scotland’s First Minister has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying it is “at the heart” of reaching wider peace in the Middle East. John Swinney was speaking on the first anniversary of ...

The prince tells an ITV documentary it is ‘important’ his young children ‘understand the world around rather than just living in their ...