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Live Politics latest news: Rishi Sunak hails 'special' visit to India ahead of G20 summit

By Edward Malnick 8 Sep 2023, 8:57am

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Scottish Greens refuse to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth on anniversary

By Simon Johnson 8 Sep 2023, 7:00am
The public isn’t being told the full truth about the climate threat

Matt Ridley 8 Sep 2023, 6:00am
Sunak refuses India’s plea for visas in trade deal talks

By Edward Malnick 7 Sep 2023, 10:30pm
Britain is not a mere supplicant of the EU

Telegraph View 7 Sep 2023, 10:00pm
‘Muscular unionism’ is good for the Union and for Scotland

Alan Cochrane 7 Sep 2023, 9:54pm
Cabinet split over trans-law reform

By Daniel Martin 7 Sep 2023, 9:25pm

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Britain is not a mere supplicant of the EU

Warmer ties should not be an end in themselves. Action cannot be confused with progress, especially with a partner as unreliable as the EU

Telegraph View
If the Last Night of the Proms goes, nothing else is safe

The BBC can’t be trusted with culture. It’ll scrap the tradition when it thinks it can get away with it

David Frost
The Tories can’t afford to capitulate to the trans cult

With a Labour victory on the horizon, this is the last chance to enshrine protection for millions of impressionable youngsters

Allison Pearson
Tucker Carlson seems to think Obama is a gay crack addict. It’s a new low for conservatism

Larry Sinclair’s claims are baseless and tasteless. There's a reason why he was ignored

Tim Stanley

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Presidential libraries call for unity and respect for US democracy in apparent attack on Trump

Democracy is in 'disarray' and must be protected, 13 institutions warn in a joint statement that appeared to take aim at Donald Trump

By Tony Diver 8 Sep 2023, 9:07am
Hong Kong flooded by heaviest rainfall in almost 140 years

More than 80 people have been hurt following torrential rain brought by typhoon Haikui

By Our Foreign Staff 8 Sep 2023, 8:30am
China’s economic slump could be the spark that ignites World War Three

What might finally trigger war between Beijing and the West is not strength, but weakness

Sam Ashworth-Hayes 8 Sep 2023, 8:00am
Putin’s top three lies: from Ukraine to the Second World War | Defence in Depth

Russia has distorted its history so profoundly we can no longer measure the country according to the most important metric: reality

By Francis Dearnley 8 Sep 2023, 8:00am

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Labour Party take record £6.4m donations in just three months

Business leaders hand over money ahead of next year’s election, inspired by a ‘smoked salmon and scrambled eggs offensive’

By Nick Gutteridge 7 Sep 2023, 7:40pm
UK’s Horizon deal with EU ‘could help stem Channel migrant crossings’

Officials believe improving relations between London and Brussels may lead to new partnership with bloc’s border force

By Joe Barnes 7 Sep 2023, 7:00pm
Politics latest news: Looming by-elections will be 'difficult' for Tories, says Sunak

By Jack Maidment 7 Sep 2023, 4:01pm
‘Two to three years’ before economy rebounds, warns Lord Clarke

Winner of next general election will be ‘unlucky’ because of state of UK’s finances, says former Tory chancellor

By Amy Gibbons 7 Sep 2023, 2:44pm
Gillian Keegan accused of opening 'Pandora's Box' over school closures

Dozens of schools have switched to remote learning or delayed the start of term because of the concrete crisis

By Ben Riley-Smith 7 Sep 2023, 12:06am
Sunak may scrap plans to ban children changing gender at school

Legislation to bypass Equality Act unlikely to make it into King’s Speech, says government source

By Daniel Martin 6 Sep 2023, 9:49pm
Nicola Sturgeon admits some blame for political hostility in first speech as backbencher

Former first minister says her perspective changed after she left ‘the trenches of the political front line’

By Daniel Sanderson 6 Sep 2023, 8:57pm
Just 20pc of staff working in some Whitehall offices amid heatwave

The Telegraph counts civil servants entering Home Office, Defra and Levelling Up building as heatwave hits London

By Catherine Lough 6 Sep 2023, 8:11pm