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Disadvantaged primary school pupils at the government’s first wave of new breakfast clubs can expect to be trained in toothbrushing, as well as fed. Data showing…

Keir Starmer has attempted to wrest back control of economic policy from the Treasury by bolstering his No 10 team, bringing in the chancellor’s deputy and…

Parents and caregivers “need to do more” to reverse post-Covid trends of poor attendance and behaviour in schools, the education secretary has said, announcing measures to…

Rachel Reeves should levy a new bank tax and urge the Bank of England to halt bond sales to reduce the government’s £22bn-a-year losses from quantitative…

The UK and European Union have summoned their Russian envoys after overnight missile strikes on Kyiv killed at least 18 people and damaged the city’s British…

Wes Streeting has intensified his battle with drug companies over the price of their products, saying he will not let the industry rip off British patients…

Postal services around the world are pausing deliveries to the US over confusion around new import taxes that must be paid on parcels from the end…

The traditional test of effectiveness in a leader of the opposition is whether the holder of that office looks like a prime minister in waiting. It…

This year’s GCSE results in England delivered something that teachers and policymakers had craved in recent years: stability, at least for most 16-year-olds.Covid and its aftermath…

President Donald Trump shows crime statistics as he delivers remarks during an Aug. 11 press conference at the White House, where he announced he will use…