Downing Street exploring options for ‘progressive’ UK digital IDs BritCard proposed by Labour Together as way to avoid another Windrush scandal and reduce visa overstayers
Departure of Reform UK chair Zia Yusuf is latest in a long line of Farage fallings-out The self-described ‘British Muslim patriot’ can take a lot of credit for Reform’s recent success – but will his decision to leave make a difference?
Zia Yusuf quits as Reform UK chair after row over new MP’s call for burqa ban Yusuf had suggested it was ‘dumb’ for Sarah Pochin to call on prime minister to introduce a ban
Highgate cemetery families confront bosses in row over new building Heckles, chants and legal threats at meeting as people condemn plan for ‘brutalist’ block where loved ones are buried
Police conclude searches in Portugal in Madeleine McCann investigation German and Portuguese officers searched area for three days close to where the British toddler went missing in 2007
Liz Truss hits back at Tory shadow chancellor for mini-budget disavowal Former PM accuses Mel Stride of being ‘creature of system’ after his formal repudiation of 2022 unfunded tax cuts
Birmingham bin dispute could run until December after vote for more strikes Unite says industrial action will last ‘for as long as it takes’ after 97% of workers in latest ballot vote to continue
Truss should be banned from ever running as Tory candidate again to show ‘we get it’, says former minister – as it happened Conservative party urged to ‘draw a line’ under the Liz Truss era and never again endorse her as candidate
Like a rural bank manager, Sideshow Mel wades into the Tory battle for irrelevance For some reason, Stride used his first keynote speech as shadow chancellor to discuss the abject failure of his party
Two teenagers sentenced over killing of Bhim Kohli, 80, in Leicestershire Boy, 15, jailed for seven years, while a 13-year-old girl receives three-year rehabilitation order