UK making up China policy ‘as it goes along’, MPs warn Commons committee says lack of coherent strategy is hampering business and leaving national security risks unaddressed
Home secretary to make some migrants wait 10 years or more for right to settle in UK Shabana Mahmood’s new rules raise fears of staff shortages in health and social care and of second Windrush scandal
How Rachel Reeves has mapped out the economic agenda for Andy Burnham’s government On Brexit, devolution and investment, the former chancellor is eerily in tune with the man who sacked her
Police detain 325 people at pro-Palestine Action protest at US embassy in London Arrests come ahead of Wednesday’s supreme court challenge to the ban on the direct action group
UK willing to spend £450m a year on EU students if it can join Made in Europe scheme Exclusive: Plan to allow students from bloc to pay same fees as Britons contingent on entry to industrial programme, officials say
Five teenagers hurt in stabbing at Halloween party in Hampshire Police searching for ‘unknown group’ that gained entry to property in Chandler’s Ford on Saturday night
John Healey says UK apology over historic role in slave trade won’t lead to financial reparations – as it happened Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’
Green party must avoid being taken over by hard left, says former leader Adrian Ramsay says some new members would be ‘more at home’ in Your Party or Socialist Workers party
Welsh health board considers closing urgent primary care centres at three hospitals Holyhead, Tremadog and Bangor UPCCs may shut as Betsi Cadwaladr University health board struggles with funding
The measure slipped into UK budget that could protect spending on children, youth and rough sleeping PDEL, which will ringfence money for preventive policies, marks a welcome and potentially consequential addition