John Swinney has given an acceptance speech after being confirmed as the SNP’s new leader – with no other possible candidates coming forward to challenge him for the position.After nominations for the post closed at midday on Monday, the former Scottish deputy first minister was confirmed as the only person to put themselves forward to succeed Humza Yousaf.
A Palestinian student who said she was “full of pride” after Hamas launched its attack on Israel faces deportation.
By rights, this should be the moment that the humanitarian case against Israel’s campaign in Gaza goes into terminal collapse. From now on, there can be no equivocation. Those who persist in opposing the war based on the number of civilian casualties are either ignorant or arguing in bad faith. Or both.
XThe Biden campaign gleefully turned one of Donald Trump’s favorite digs against him on Saturday, branding the 78-year-old candidate as woefully geriatric in response to his embarrassing stumble at a Minnesota rally on Friday.Video from the event shared by Biden-Harris HQ on X showed Trump grabbing the lectern during his remarks on stage, after nearly toppling the podium over.A feeble Trump nearly falls down on stage after he leans on his podium too hard and then goes on an angry rant calling hi
The BBC has apologised after one of its senior presenters suggested Tel Aviv was Israel’s capital, contradicting its own guidelines.
Donald Trump’s defence lawyer won plaudits for his aggressive handling this week of Michael Cohen, one of the key witnesses in the ongoing “hush money” case against the former president.
It was only a matter of time before the call came. Now Labour MPs, including Sam Tarry and Jess Phillips, are agitating for Britain to take in Palestinians fleeing Gaza.
Former president and first lady attended ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida after judge overseeing Trump’s criminal trial granted permission for him to be there
The Department for Work and Pensions has been urged to present a compensation package for WASPI women before the summer recess.
Gene Rossi and Leslie Ellis join The Lead
The former PM has had a humour upgrade
Russian President Vladimir Putin's war machine looks different today than it did at the start of the conflict.
The military’s most secretive unit is on a recruitment drive to select more men and women to carry out undercover operations, The Telegraph can reveal.
At a rally in Essex on Thursday, Sir Keir Starmer set out his six pledges to the British public ahead of an election that could return a Labour government. Now we have found out just how much one could cost. Based on Treasury costings of 50 Labour policies, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned that a Starmer administration would plunge Britain’s finances into a £38 billion black hole, suggesting that Sir Keir would need to raise taxes to fill the gap.
The Department for Work and Pensions is looking at changes to Personal Independence Payments
A German politician said the Western defense of Israel from Iran is a blueprint for protecting Ukraine.
Isolationism is a good instinct but a bad policy. The difference between home and everywhere else is vital to the human psyche and to national existence. Logically, it leads to respect for others: they have their homes, too, so neither should interfere with the other.
The first asylum seekers bound for Rwanda were detained at the start of May
The refreshed artillery is now helping to blunt Russian advances around Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, a report said.
Former President Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has a net worth of $7.5 billion, according to a May 2024 Forbes estimate.
Fraudsters have stolen almost £1 billion from the Ministry of Defence since 2010, official figures show.
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