Editorial: The system has been stretched to breaking point. The government needs to come up with a plan

Laila Soueif to sit outside Foreign Office over Cairo’s extended detention of her British-Egyptian dissident son

 

 

UK home secretary stressed need for economic co-operation, against backdrop of royal revelations

 

Government report outlines how it intends to build 1.5m homes by the end of the parliament

Lady Meyer found to have breached harassment rules with behaviour towards Lord Dholakia that had ‘racial element’

Staff told 400 civil servant roles will go in voluntary exit scheme, with Whitehall braced for further cuts

The UK government has announced it is suspending Syrian asylum claims, after the fall of the decades-long Assad regime. So, what will happen to the Syrians who have made the UK their home? The Guardian’s John Harris hears from one woman settled ...

KemiKaze neither listens nor learns as she loses to Keir Starmer week after week at prime minister’s questions

Ministers are right to want to reform the state: it’s crucial to their project. But simply telling civil servants to work harder won’t achieve it, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Highly unusual move for private member’s bill is sign government will intensely monitor details of legislation

Justice secretary says lack of cells ‘is of more concern’ than people’s worries about jails being built near their homes

Demand rising faster than any supply ‘could possibly catch up with’, justice secretary says

 

 

Western intelligence has deemed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham not a direct terror threat to the UK

New EU trade regulations will cause further pain for the UK. Starmer’s talk of breaking down barriers must be more than warm words, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

While David Lammy lauded the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Keir Starmer was having a love-in with Mohammed bin Salman