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  • the EE sign reflected in shop glass

    UK advertising watchdog cracks down on misleading broadband price ads

  • Emma Pinchbeck

    Energy industry trade body chief to head UK’s climate watchdog

    Emma Pinchbeck will take over as chief executive of Climate Change Committee next month
  • A food bank worker carries a basket of tinned tomatoes

    More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research finds

    One million more people are in what Trussell charity defines as ‘hunger and hardship’ than five years ago

  • Ex-soldier Daniel Khalife, accused of helping Iran, wanted to be MI6 ‘double agent’

  • Reeves to press ahead with plans to borrow billions for investment

  • AI glasses to anticipating falls: firms vie to win £1m for dementia technology

  • Post Office chair says it has ‘strained’ relations with Horizon IT firm Fujitsu

  • MI5 chief: UK facing growing threat from Islamic State, Russia and Iran

  • Cleverly emerges as Tory leadership frontrunner after third round of voting

  • Cleverly, Badenoch and Jenrick stay in Tory leadership race as Tugendhat knocked out – as it happened

UK politics

  • Students walk along a corridor carrying books at Royal High School Bath private school

    Plans to add VAT to private school fees won’t be delayed, says minister

  • Clive Lewis outside No 10

    UK immigration laws ‘cannot be uncoupled from racism’, say minority ethnic MPs

    • Go-Ahead transport group orders 1,200 ‘green buses’ from Wrightbus

    • Lower Thames Crossing decision delayed for seven months

    • Parties would have to justify House of Lords nominations under new rules

    • Keir Starmer does not have a problem with women, says transport secretary

    • UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it

    • Boris Johnson hits out at ‘greedy’ Keir Starmer over freebies

Analysis and explainers

  • Food items in a food bank

    How many people in the UK are in ‘hunger and hardship’?

  • Keir Starmer and Sue Gray.

    Scapegoat Sue Gray’s exit leaves Starmer’s No 10 with nowhere to hide

  • Nick Read

    Post Office Horizon IT inquiry: the issues that CEO Nick Read needs to explain

  • Sue Gray

    Once Sue Gray became the story, it was clear she had to go

Culture

  • Denzil Forrester, pictured with Lisa Nandy, standing by his painting depicting a dub-reggae dancehall in Cornwall.

    Lisa Nandy vows to move national art collection ‘into communities’

  • man in suit speaks into microphone

    Trump took ‘British naval secrets’ to Mar-a-Lago, says Christopher Steele

    Former UK spy says in new book Trump ‘apparently unauthorizedly’ took secrets with him
  • Heath Ledger as the Joker

    Heath Ledger’s Joker was based on a Francis Bacon painting, says Christopher Nolan

    Hollywood director is one of several leading creatives to speak of Bacon’s influence ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

  • The Great Escape festival no longer sponsored by Barclays, after criticism of Israel links

  • Wellington’s false teeth and wolf bones: English Heritage seeks help to record vast collection

  • Traffic wardens issue tickets for vehicles on Daniel Day-Lewis film set

  • The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon

Education

  • Young children painting during an art lesson in a reception class

    School starters born during pandemic lack communication skills, Ofsted says

  • Private school boys

    Doubts grow over Labour’s VAT plan for private schools

  • School hall with rows of pupils taking exams

    Demand for England’s grammar schools falls – despite VAT on school fees

  • A dentist looking at a patient’s teeth.

    Residential school students in England to get free dental, eyesight and hearing checks

Society

  • Ian Paterson.

    Colleague of disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson raised concerns two decades ago, inquest hears

  • Flyfishers’ Club building in London

    ‘This is great news’: Flyfishers’ Club members vote to allow women

    • Baby

      Deaths outstrip births in UK for first time in nearly 50 years

    • Statue of Justice on top of the Old Bailey

      Family court judges use victim-blaming language in domestic abuse cases, finds AI project

    • A man wearing large glasses with a big grey beard looks into the camera

      Family of deceased tenant refused entry to property containing life’s work

Multimedia

  • A spider in a web

    Taylor Swift, Kim Jong-un and a spiderweb: photos of the day – Tuesday

  • Sue Gray sitting in a chair with a finger over her mouth

    How Sue Gray was ousted – Politics Weekly Westminster

    • A black man in a black suit, tie and sunglasses, and with a serious demeanour, stands at a gate on the outskirts of an airport

      Forced into exile: the Chagossians scattered in Mauritius and Britain

    • A rabbit is pictured during the National Rabbit Exhibition in Boguchwala, Poland

      Goddess Durga and a giant fox: the weekend in pictures

    • Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march through central London – video

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