The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Senior politicians want taxpayer-funded support for former PM suspended, as watchdog opens investigation

Reform’s migration plans may be a big surprise to their supporters. Take from the poor and give to the rich

From America and Hungary to India and Israel, the relationship between religion and the populist far right should be troubling for us in the UK

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

Real-terms gains of $33.9tn for world’s richest 1% ‘enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over’, charity says

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Bulgarians Orlin Roussev, Biser Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova attended an event in the Palace of Westminster, the BBC finds.

Exclusive: plan to let firms sidestep environmental laws by paying into nature levy would add cost and delay, says letter to MPs Leading economists, former government advisers and ecologists are calling for a key section of the government’s planning bill to be changed because it creates a “licence to kill nature”. Sir Partha Dasgupta, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Cambridge, ecology professor Sir John Lawton and Dr Tom Tew, a former chief scientist of Natural England, are among the signatories to a letter to MPs which warns them to ignore government slogans and false rhetoric about nature and wildlife being a block to growth. Continue reading...

Both Kemi Badenoch and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change

Hedge fund manager deliberately tried to frustrate investigation into sexual misconduct allegations, says regulator