The Latest Breaking News from Churchill

The hotel design icon Jasper Conran stocks up on cheese at Paxton & Whitfield, tucks in to Italian fare at Bocca di Lupo and recalls his fun years as a Neal Street waiter

Two polls released on eve of state’s primary put ex-president at 19 points and 18 points ahead of his former UN ambassador

Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser denies contributing to an atmosphere of misogyny at No 10, saying he was ‘much ruder about men’

Villagers of Tharuvaikulam anxiously await release of 12 fishermen detained by Maldivian Coast Guard for alleged poaching. Union govt. supported their multi-day deep sea fishing. Womenfolk worried, Fisheries Dept. wrote to authorities for their release. Father Churchill urges Maldivian authorities to investigate and release them.

John Rentoul answers your questions as Sir Keir Starmer declared Labour was ‘redrawing the political map’ following a historic Tory by-election trouncing

The Chancellor said cuts this year would ‘compromise’ the battle against inflation.

National living wage to increase to £11 an hour, Hunt to promise at Tory conference

Other measures at the Manchester gathering will include a plan to ban mobile phones in England’s schools.

British politics feels like a prank gone wrong. Boris Johnson wanted to be like Churchill, but he’s now more like the young attention-seeking tearaway Mizzy — constantly pushing the boundaries to shock, enrage and stay in the limelight.