Panel rules out further inquiry into sexual harassment claims against Lib Dem peer Chris Rennard

Nations in the group fare worse than others, with funding for nature projects especially hard hit even as climate crisis intensifies global need The UK government has slashed overseas aid to Commonwealth countries, the Guardian can reveal, in contrast to the warm words for the group from the king and the prime minister, Andy Burnham, this week. Amid sharp cuts in the UK’s aid budget overall, the Commonwealth has fared poorly, an analysis of the most recent and projected aid figures, seen by the

Launching a defence plan on a rusty sloop, and dogged by a UK Iron Dome that never was, the Tory leader has forgotten her party’s 14 years in power HMS Wellington. A decommissioned Grimsby-class sloop from the second world war. A warship that has been moored on the Thames, going nowhere for the best part of 80 years. Today’s venue for the leader of the opposition to explain why the Conservative party hollowed out defence spending throughout their time in office. Sorry. Scrub that. To welcome in

Lockhart said she was leaving the party on a "point of principle" and would continue as an independent unionist MP.

The two sides have agreed to remove certain Brexit checks on food and animal product exports to EU The UK and the EU have finalised their deal to remove red tape for food producers wanting to export to the EU. It is the first of a series of agreements the two sides will formally announce at a summit in Brussels on 20 November. It is understood the text is “settled” and not subject to further negotiation with the European Commission although an EU member state may yet raise issues with the text w