Tributes have been paid to the “stable voice” of former deputy leader of the Conservative party Michael Ancram, who has died aged 79. Ancram, known formally as the 13th Marquess of Lothian, held the role under Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard for five years in the early 2000s. He also served as shadow foreign…

Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, has survived a second parliamentary confidence motion in less than a week after opposition parties vowed to keep his minority Liberal government alive for now. Legislators in the House of Commons voted 207-121 to defeat a bid by the official opposition Conservative party to topple Trudeau, who faces increasing voter…

Six people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting and knife attack on the Israeli seaside city of Jaffa that occurred minutes before Iran launched a huge missile attack on Israel. Five of the wounded were described as being in a serious condition. CCTV footage showed two men, reportedly armed with an assault rifle…

Harris to travel to Georgia on Wednesday Kamala Harris will travel to Georgia to survey the impacts of Hurricane Helene on Wednesday, her office announced. Harris will receive an on-the-ground briefing and will also provide updates on federal actions that are being taken to support emergency response and recovery efforts in Georgia and other impacted…

The family of a vulnerable woman whose dead body lay in her social housing flat unnoticed for more than three years had raised concerns about her welfare two months before she was discovered, an inquest has heard. Laura Winham’s remains were found by her brother in her flat in Woking, Surrey, in May 2021, after…

Kemi Badenoch has said at the Conservative party conference that she believes up to 10% of civil servants are so bad they should be in prison, claiming they leak official secrets and “agitate” against ministers. At a fringe event at the conference in Birmingham, the Tory leadership contender said she did not want to criticise…

Late Monday, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced it plans to launch the first-ever federal investigation into the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, in which hundreds of Black Tulsans were killed, thousands were displaced and forced into internment camps overseen by the national guard, and Greenwood, the thriving district once known as “Black Wall Street”,…

Badenoch says up to 10% of civil servants ‘very, very bad’, adding jokingly they’re ‘should be in prison bad’ During the Q&A at the Spectator Kemi Badenoch was asked if she approved of term limits for civil servants, an idea proposed by Vivek Ramaswamy when he was running to be the Republican candidate for president…

Dying patients experienced vital delays in being treated by paramedics because of the time it took ambulance crews to put on protective personal equipment, the Covid inquiry has been told. An ambulance technician, Mark Tilley, came close to tears on Tuesday as he described how the experience still “played on his mind”. Ambulance crews had…