How Farage’s response to racism claims is straight out of Trump’s populist playbook

Reform UK leader’s legal threats, denials and attacks on the media are tactics often deployed by US president

Labour announces plans to lift 550,000 children out of poverty – as it happened

Starmer hails child poverty strategy as a ‘moral mission’ which will include measures to help with childcare and getting families out of temporary housing

Former doctor charged with sexual assaults against 38 patients in his care

Nathaniel Spencer, from Birmingham, is accused of 45 offences, including some against children under 13

Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline

Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time

What would you write in a very last letter and why?

If you had the chance to write just one last letter, to whom would you send it?

UK-EU youth mobility scheme could let tens of thousands live and work abroad

Ministers want to secure deal by end of 2026 as part of a broader reset of Britain’s relationship with Europe

Teenager was Tasered by police before being killed by car on M5

Logan Smith, 18, got out of ambulance driving him to hospital in Somerset, says official watchdog

Digested week: Book lauds Robert F Kennedy Jr’s chest. Ridicule ensues

Defenders rally to Olivia Nuzzi amid book mockery, while rakish David Dimbleby channels his inner Dickens

Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments

Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy

Shabana Mahmood urged not to help those ‘seeking to build division’

Exclusive: In open letter, 225 groups describe home secretary’s plan to overhaul asylum system as ‘cruel and ‘ruthless’