Mark Harrison

Migrants are being granted asylum in Britain despite not being entitled to protection because of catastrophic failures inside the Home Office, a damning United Nations audit has found.

Ed Miliband has told MPs that the British government agrees that Palestinians are being subjected to ethnic cleansing in parts of the occupied West Bank, accusing “settler terrorists” of carrying out the displacement.

Argentina is preparing to bring criminal proceedings against companies involved in a major oil development off the coast of the Falkland

Ed Miliband has faced a growing backlash over the UK's decision to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements, after the Israeli embassy accused the

Andy Burnham has been accused of turning Labour into the “Welfare Party” after the prime minister said national security could not come “at the expense of social security”, intensifying a political row over defence spending and the cost of Britain's benefits system.

The UK's agreement with France to return small boat migrants is facing renewed uncertainty, with Andy Burnham appealing directly to President Emmanuel Macron to preserve a deal that officials fear Paris could abandon.

An Israeli government spokesman has refused to rule out preventing Ed Miliband from entering Israel, describing the UK foreign secretary as a “failed figure” amid a widening diplomatic dispute between London and Jerusalem.

Britain's borrowing costs have surged to levels not seen in decades, as the escalating conflict in the Middle East and renewed energy price shock

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has ordered police chiefs to make greater use of face-covering bans and surveillance technology as forces prepare

France is pressing Britain to abandon its bilateral Channel migration agreement and replace it with an EU-wide system that would require the UK to