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The UK is "really unprepared" to fight a war and has been living on a "mirage" of military strength that was shocking to discover, interviews with almost every defence secretary since the end of the Cold War have revealed.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suffered another budget blow with a rebellion by rural Labour MPs over inheritance tax on farmers.

A decade on from when authorities identified the emergence of "county lines" drug dealing, children exploited by the trade are now often either dead, in prison or have been sectioned with mental health problems caused by the trauma.

The government has announced the right to a jury trial will be limited to only those facing a likely sentence of more than three years.

Hospital patients are being "set up to suffer" this winter, with "distressing" scenes of vulnerable and elderly people left waiting in corridors likely to be repeated, nurses have warned.

"Systematic failures" led to the Chinese spy case collapsing - and there's a risk they could be repeated, a parliamentary inquiry has said.

Ads for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned in the UK after regulators ruled they exaggerated environmental benefits and misled consumers.

The health secretary has accused the British Medical Association of "juvenile delinquency" and behaving like "moaning minnies" after the union announced that resident doctors will go on strike in the run-up to Christmas.