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The UK will convene a group of countries in efforts to end violence against women and girls around the world, the foreign secretary has announced.

Online safety campaigners with opposing views have teamed up to urge Sir Keir Starmer to force social media platforms to prove they are safe before children can access them.

A high-speed (HS) train line between London and Birmingham will be more expensive, take longer to make and go slower than previously announced.

A by-election is set to take place in the constituency of Makerfield, in Greater Manchester, on 18 June.

John Swinney has been re-elected as Scotland's first minister and has vowed to "work every day to repay the trust" the nation's people have placed in him.

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The UK's jobless rate has ticked up to 5% and the pace of basic wage growth has eased further as the country faces down a fresh energy-led price shock.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised those who misuse religious identity to "intimidate and divide", just days after Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom march in London.

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Wes Streeting has confirmed he will stand in any Labour leadership race to replace Sir Keir Starmer - and said the UK should seek to rejoin the European Union.