Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death

Exclusive: Lawsuit is the first UK case of its kind, with Ros and Mark Dowey accusing Meta of ‘putting profit before our young people’

Boy, 15, charged with murder of nine-year-old Aria Thorpe in Somerset

Teenager appears in court over death of girl in Weston-super-Mare on Monday

MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’

Exclusive: Health select committee chair says UK government’s ‘naive belief’ Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’

Nigel Farage told to ‘come out of hiding’ over alleged election overspending

Labour chair urges Electoral Commission to investigate claims Reform leader spent too much in Clacton campaign

£570m cost of Erasmus is ‘money coming back to UK’, says minister – as it happened

Nick Thomas-Symonds says a 30% discount for the UK’s participation in EU scheme has been agreed

Undercover officer admits deceiving woman into five-year relationship

Mark Jenner strung along activist who wanted to have children with him in an ‘extremely cruel’ way to infiltrate leftwing circles, Spycops inquiry told

A black swan event: Keir actually cracked a good joke at PMQs

MPs from most corners of Commons laughed at the festive gag – but stony-faced Farage failed to see the funny side

Net migration to UK could rise to 300,000 by end of decade, says government adviser

Chair of migration advisory committee says figure will jump as numbers of overseas students and workers rise again

Man, 86, arrested over 1993 shotgun deaths of south Wales couple

Officers make arrest in connection with deaths of Harry and Megan Tooze in farmhouse in Llanharry

UK’s largest union elects leftwinger who was expelled from Labour

Andrea Egan to become Unison general secretary, succeeding Christina McAnea, who has close links to Keir Starmer