Louise Haigh has defended Labour’s budget measures after Keir Starmer shunned farmers at a tax protest. The transport secretary said budget measures that affect farmers are “fair and proportionate”. She sidestepped questions about why ...

Transport secretary says investment would end ‘complicated and inconsistent’ funding models

Met Office urges people to get their ‘woolly jumpers at the ready’ with temperatures set to drop

Transport secretary Louise Haigh has confirmed that the government is holding talks with a range of nations to tackle the ‘small boats’ migrant crisis

Unusually mild spell to end with subzero temperatures likely overnight in much of northern England and Scotland

King’s pageant master is at odds with Royal British Legion and government over events for the big day

Isaac Levido and Michael Brooks warned ex-PM on 3 April voters ‘less likely to feel financially optimistic’

There are around 400,000 grey seals worldwide, with about 120,000 living off the coast of Britain.

Northamptonshire police say they believe 24-year-old Harshita Brella was attacked by someone she knew

The Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley has spoken out against the culture of silence in the Church of England

Labour peer, who is blind, calls for TfL action on "death trap" platforms to fill the widest gaps and ensure staff presence

Lester McLennan vanished on a hike on the Giant’s Causeway

‘Step up before someone dies’ South Yorkshire Police urges dog owners amid pressure on the force

Pascal Lamy, former head of the WTO, says Britain will have to take sides if new US administration slaps hefty tariffs on imports, as fears grow over possible trade war

Allison Pearson is being probed by Essex Police over a social media post from one year ago

In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Lord Hague discusses with Geordie Greig his campaign to win election as Chancellor to the University of Oxford. The former foreign secretary explains his opinions on what the statue of Cecil Rhodes, his ...

Farmers staged a protest against Labour’s inheritance tax increase with a huge tractor convoy. Farmers unhappy with the changes unveiled in Rachel Reeves’ first budget gathered with tractors outside the Welsh Labour conference venue in Llandundo, ...

Former Tory leader says Labour peer Lord Mandelson cannot be UK ambassador to the US and chancellor of Oxford University

James Gibbons was last seen walking into an alleyway in Cuxton, Kent

Farmers tell Alex Ross that Rachel Reeves’ Budget ‘tractor tax’ is the latest blow to a family industry struggling to survive amid rising costs and extreme weather – as thousands prepare to descend on Westminster this week