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Suella Braverman will travel to Rwanda on Friday, Sky News understands, as she seeks to bolster the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to the country if they arrive in the UK on small boats. The controversial policy was announced by Boris Johnson last year, but no one has been flown to the nation yet

The government will have to find money to increase public sector pay or face consequences in its services, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt outlined his spring budget on Wednesday, with promises of additional free childcare for working families and the scrapping of limits on pension pots to encourage people

The SNP’s national executive committee will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday morning amid a row over transparency, Sky News understands. It is likely this could lead to the membership figures being released after the party refused to meet demands from all three candidates vying to replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s first minister to publish

An American spy on secondment to GCHQ was stabbed last week by an alleged terrorist in the town where the UK intelligence agency is based, it has been reported. Counter-terrorism police have confirmed that a 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a woman was stabbed outside a leisure centre in Cheltenham

A nurse tried to murder a baby just a day after a hospital executive refused to remove her from her duties despite staff concerns, a court has heard. Lucy Letby denies murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others on the neo-natal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June

After the debacle of Liz Truss’s September mini-budget, with all its mega ramifications, and an autumn statement eight weeks later that performed an about-turn so big that the country’s tax burden hit a 70-year-high, Wednesday’s budget will be all about stability and sticking to the plan. “No big bangs in this budget,” is how one

China has hit out at the US, UK and Australia over their pact to create new nuclear-powered submarines, saying they have “gone further down a dangerous road”. It follows Rishi Sunak meeting US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in San Diego to announce the next stage of the Aukus partnership plan.

High-profile figures from sport and broadcasting appear to have poked fun at the BBC over its U-turn on the Gary Lineker impartiality row. After the corporation last Friday suspended the Match of the Day presenter, 62, for his tweets criticising the government’s migration policy, it has now agreed to allow him back on air this

King Charles has given his first Commonwealth Day address as monarch against the backdrop of protests at Westminster Abbey. The King urged the family of nations to “strive together” for the “global common good” at the annual service celebrating the Commonwealth. Other royals at the service included the Queen Consort, the Prince and Princess of

A climate change protester has been jailed for five weeks after blocking traffic on the M4. Stephen Pritchard, 63, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court for his part in an Insulate Britain demonstration in 2021. He was convicted by a jury of causing a nuisance to the public when he, along with three others,

Rishi Sunak has said there are “no plans” to change a law which prevents the permanent return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece. The sculptures – also known as the Parthenon sculptures or marbles – were controversially removed from one of the world’s most historic monuments in Athens by British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early

British tech firms face a “serious risk” over the collapse of the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank, the chancellor has warned, but said the government was “working at pace” to limit the damage. Speaking to Sky News’ Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme, Jeremy Hunt said the government and the Bank of England were “absolutely

The BBC’s director general has said bosses are “working very hard” to fix the damage done to the broadcaster following the suspension of Gary Lineker. Tim Davie was speaking after a day when Football Focus and Final Score were taken off the air and Match Of The Day – usually presented by Lineker – was

King Charles has received a horse from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Mounties gifted the King a seven-year-old black mare called Noble – a name she received through the Canadian police’s annual Name the Foal contest. The gift marks a long-standing tradition where the Mounties offer horses to the Royal Family and it signifies

The BBC’s director general says the damage done to football programming following Gary Lineker’s suspension is a “real blow” but he will not be resigning. Tim Davie said he was “sorry audiences have been affected and they haven’t got the programming”. Football Focus and Final Score were taken off the air, and it is understood

The BBC has said it “understands the strength of feeling” among staff about Gary Lineker’s suspension as it battles to get regular football programming back on the air. Final Score and Football Focus were pulled from BBC One on Saturday after their respective hosts, Jason Mohammad and Alex Scott, said they would not be hosting

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has been told to step back from his role on the BBC show due to views he has expressed on Twitter. Lineker has more than eight million followers on the social media platform and, after using it to criticise the government’s new bill on the treatment of asylum

Backing has been given to the first floating wind farm off the Welsh coastline. The Welsh government has given consent for the project, which will be located 40km off the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, to proceed. Project Erebus is expected to provide enough low carbon energy to power 93,000 homes. It will include seven

WhatsApp is right not to back down in its opposition to UK government proposals that could allow encrypted messages to be scanned, online privacy campaigners have said. Robin Wilton, director of internet trust for the Internet Society, told Sky News that any requirements in the upcoming Online Safety Bill that would weaken user privacy would

An 82-year-old man has suffered severe burns after being set on fire outside a mosque. The pensioner was seen having a conversation with a male as they both left the West London Islamic Centre in Ealing, west London, around 8pm on 27 January. They spoke for around five minutes before the man doused the victim