Politics
Dairy farmers are binning milk because there are no lorry drivers
One firm warned the staffing crisis has made milk shortages over the next few weeks inevitable.
Dowden: UK ‘won’t break international law’ to turn back migrants
The UK is engaged in a bitter war of words with France over migrant crossings in the English Channel.
Universal Credit cut to hit sickest places hardest, charity finds
Ministers are pushing ahead with scrapping the £20-a-week UC uplift at the end of September.
Rio Ferdinand calls on government to punish and educate online abusers
“You can go to a game and if you throw a banana on a pitch, there'll be repercussions. Online, you can post a banana to a black player and you're not going to get punished. How is that right? Can't be," the former England footballer and TV pundit said.
Flashback: To when Lord Digby Jones said Germany would be queuing up for tariff-free deal with UK
Figures released this week show Britain has been relegated from Germany's top 10 trading countries.
Labour takes shock lead in the polls
The YouGov survey suggests plans to hike National Insurance to plug a funding shortfall in the NHS and social care has backfired among voters.
Gavin Williamson uses videolink to tell university conference: ‘Get back to in-person teaching’
"The Tories are killing satire!", one person wrote, while another noted that the education secretary had probably confused Newcastle for Newquay.
France accuses Patel of ‘financial blackmail’ over migrant crossings
Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister, publicly criticised the home secretary after a tense meeting on Wednesday.
‘Make Orwell fiction again’: Patel migrant move straight out of 1984
Government policy or extracts from Winston Smith's diary? You choose.