A Metropolitan Police officer who kidnapped and raped a woman in September 2023—six years after a first complaint was made against him—has been jailed for life.

The business secretary said ‘British ingenuity and industry’ made the UK successful and played down the role of slavery and colonialism.

On Thursday voters go to the polls in England and Wales for elections for 107 councils, 11 mayors, 37 police and crime commissioners, and a by-election.

A 14-year-old boy has been killed and several other people were injured when a man ran amok with a samurai sword in Hainault, east London.

A government document suggests only 2,145 out of the 5,700 people identified for removal to Rwanda are still in contact with the Home Office.

A Tory MP and long-time critic of the Chinese Communist Party has claimed he was deported from Djibouti, an African country with close links to Beijing.

The Crown Prosecution Service has accepted a guilty plea to the charge of manslaughter by diminished responsibility in the case of Lee Byer.

Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, has resigned a week after pulling the SNP out of a power sharing agreement with the Greens.

With three days to go until the mayoral election in London, policing minister Chris Philp has criticised Mr. Khan’s record on knife crime and stop-and-search.

Coroner Sir Adrian Fulford highlighted failures that allowed a mentally ill Islamist to murder three gay men in a park in Reading in June 2020.