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
Reform UK row as party chair calls new MP’s burqa ban question ‘dumb’ Party says ban is not its policy after Sarah Pochin called on the prime minister to introduce one
Labour’s £13.2bn warm homes plan will not face cuts in spending review Source confirms decision that will help meet net zero targets and pledge to cut energy bills by £300
Fears Tata Steel could be excluded from Starmer’s Trump tariff deal UK ministers working to secure carve-out from 50% rate for Indian-owned Port Talbot works
Tories will never again put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride says Shadow chancellor accepts Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PM