Following Dominic Raab’s resignation over two upheld complaints of bullying, a former Foreign Office chief is urging Chancellor Rishi Sunak to stand up for the civil service. Sir Simon McDonald, who was Mr Raab’s permanent secretary during his time at the Foreign Office, has called for the prime minister to defend the service from Raab’s
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The UK has launched a “complex” and “dangerous” mission to evacuate around 4,000 UK passport holders who have been stranded in Sudan after heavy fighting broke out in the east African country. The Royal Air Force (RAF) planes will collect people from an airfield near Khartoum, with priority given to families with children, the elderly,
A couple has been sentenced for the murder of two-year-old Lola James in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. Kyle Bevan, 31, has been given a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years for murdering Lola James, the daughter of his partner. Lola’s mother, Sinead James, has been sentenced to six years for causing or allowing her
Diane Abbott, who was born in London in 1953 to Jamaican immigrants, has made history by becoming the first black female MP for Labour in 1987. Despite facing opposition from within her party, she has been re-elected nine times for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. Abbott has been a vocal campaigner for human rights, civil