Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s conservative ruling party is braced for a blow to its comfortable majority in elections to the lower house of parliament amid public rage over financial ...

Sir Chris Hoy has revealed his “selfless” wife kept her multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis a secret as they dealt with his cancer treatment. Sir Chris, one of Britain’s most successful Olympians, ...

Working people will not see higher taxes “on their payslip”, a minister said as she acknowledged frustrations over the Government’s refusal to spell out who will be hit by greater levies ahead of the ...

The Education Secretary has said she is “open-minded” to a ban on smacking children, but she added there are no imminent plans to change the law.