The size of the army is to be reduced by thousands of troops over the next four years, as part of what the government is calling the most significant defence review since the end of the cold war.

Yang Xiaoguang is chargé d'affaires at the Chinese Embassy in London.

The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced sanctions against four senior Chinese officials accused of being behind abuses of  Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang,  calling it one of the "worst human rights crises of our time".

We have some new information about what he's been up to.

Boris Johnson has warned that the third wave of coronavirus sweeping through Europe is likely to “wash up on our shores as well".

We spoke to Sir Peter Fahy, former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, and began by asking if the politicians are putting the police in an impossible position.

The Home Secretary Priti Patel has condemned what she called the "anarchic and violent" scenes in Bristol yesterday evening, when a protest against plans to give police increased powers descended into violence.

Jackie Baillie is Labour's deputy leader in Scotland.

We spoke to Ian Blackford, the Scottish National Party leader in the Commons, and asked if recent events had exposed a terrible schism in the Scottish National Party.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared of breaching the ministerial code in relation to sexual harassment allegations against her predecessor, Alex Salmond.

The discovery of Covid vaccines was supposed to give us a passport back to normality. But despite another record-breaking day for innoculations yesterday, another warning from the government that summer holidays should remain on hold. The latest UK f...

Half of the UK's adult population has now received a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine

From the beaches of Cornwall to the slums of Mumbai and the cityscapes of New York, brothers Nicholas and Alex Bourne embarked on a trip together to explore what it means to have a sibling with Down’s Syndrome.

The UK has managed to hand out the most Covid jabs yet in a single day.

Labour has said that Nicola Sturgeon should resign if she's found to have breached the ministerial code.