Marcus Smith has defied expectations by winning a place on the bench for the British and Irish Lions’ first Test against Australia, but Owen Farrell and Henry Pollock miss out on selection. Tom Curry ...

Labour MP Diane Abbott said she has no regrets about comments on racism which led to her being suspended by the party. The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP was suspended by the Labour Party in ...

Monty Python star Eric Idle has said Reform UK leader Nigel Farage being “taken seriously” is “appalling to me” after post-Brexit issues meant he was unable to see his Spamalot musical opening in ...

Britain’s jobless rate has struck its highest level for four years as workers also faced another slowdown in wage growth, official figures have shown. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the ...

Strikes by French air traffic control (ATC) workers are creating “unexpected and significant costs for all airlines”, easyJet’s boss said. Kenton Jarvis, chief executive of the Luton-based carrier, ...