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NHS will need more tax rises, ministers admit




Tax rises in the Budget will not be the last, the Chancellor has suggested after admitting that the money she will give the NHS on Wednesday will not be enough to fix it…

Reeves to hand workers pay rises of more than triple rate of inflation




Rachel Reeves is to raise the minimum wage by more than triple the rate of inflation in a move that will heap an extra £6bn in costs on employers…

Starmer suffers biggest fall in popularity for new PM




Sir Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest fall in approval rating after winning an election of any prime minister in the modern era, a poll has shown…

Tech giants ‘ignoring harm to children’




Social media companies are ignoring the harm they inflict on children while making billions of pounds of profit from them, the Children’s Commissioner has warned in a report…

Starmer raises bus fare cap to £3




The bus fare cap in England will be raised to £3 in the Budget, Sir Keir Starmer has announced…

Pictured: Man ‘punched’ by suspended Labour MP ‘after row over winter fuel cuts’




A constituent who appeared to be punched by a Labour MP has been pictured…

Taliban bans women from ‘hearing other women’s voices’




The Taliban has banned women from hearing other women’s voices in its latest attempt to impose a hardline version of Islamic law on Afghanistan…

Israel bans UN aid agency from working within the country




Israel has banned the UN’s Palestinian aid agency from operating within the country and the occupied areas under its control…

US election latest: Biden votes at Delaware polling station

Joe Biden cast his early vote in the US presidential election in Delaware on Monday as the close-fought contest entered its final stretch…

The true scale of migrant crossings under Kamala Harris revealed




The number of migrants who have crossed illegally into the US under Kamala Harris is 25 per cent higher than official figures suggest, The Telegraph can reveal…

China trains in dark for ‘surprise’ attack on Taiwan




China’s army is stepping up night-time training in a signal it is ready for “surprises” in a possible war with Taiwan…

Israel ‘captures Oct 7 Hamas fighters’ in hospital raid




Israeli special forces captured 100 suspected terrorists in a raid on a hospital in northern Gaza…

Prince of Wales’s homelessness documentary to air ahead of Duke of Sussex polo series




Prince William’s documentary about homelessness is to air on Disney+ ahead of his brother’s polo series on rival network Netflix…

Bibby Stockholm asylum seekers being moved to Midlands hotel




Asylum seekers are being transferred from the Bibby Stockholm to a hotel and council accommodation in the Midlands as the Home Office seeks to close the barge by Christmas…

Millionaire forced to demolish ‘Britain’s best man cave’




A millionaire who illegally built a leisure complex described as “Britain’s best man cave” has been forced to demolish it…

Home working fuels surge in adult naps




Working from home has fuelled a surge in the number of adults napping on their employer’s time…

Watch: Man behind AI child abuse images admits to police ‘my mind is warped’




A man who made “bespoke” child abuse images using artificial intelligence to sell to other paedophiles has been jailed for 18 years…

Watch: Police wrestle huge model hippo out of road after it blocks traffic




Police were forced to tackle a life-size model of a hippo that had been left in the middle of a road, blocking traffic…

Israel bans UN aid agency from working within the country




Israel has banned the UN’s Palestinian aid agency from operating within the country and the occupied areas under its control…

Ex-Matt Hancock aide attacked and racially abused taxi driver, court hears




A former adviser to Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock attacked and racially abused a taxi driver after a drunken night out in Soho, a court heard…

NHS will need more tax rises, ministers admit




Tax rises in the Budget will not be the last, the Chancellor has suggested after admitting that the money she will give the NHS on Wednesday will not be enough to fix it…

Fitness app ‘gives away location of Biden, Trump and other world leaders’




The highly confidential movements of Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that their bodyguards use, according to an investigation by French newspaper Le Monde…

Imam says wives have a duty to make themselves sexually ‘available’ to husbands




A mosque has been referred to the charity watchdog after its imam said that women have an “obligation” to have sex with their husbands…

Watch: FBI investigating as ballot boxes go up in flames in Vancouver, Washington




Ballot boxes in Washington State and Oregon were set alight by the same culprit damaging hundreds of votes, the FBI believes…

‘Vile’ pupils treated with petting zoo and inflatables, claims union




Pupils at a Welsh school were treated to a bouncy castle and a petting zoo while teachers were on strike over students’ poor behaviour, a union has claimed…

Badenoch ‘wary’ of saying she wants to be PM because of toll on family




Kemi Badenoch has said that she is “wary” of saying she wants to become prime minister because of the “sacrifice” the job would entail for her and her family…