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The prime minister’s rivals are shoring up support at the Conservative conference in case of polling defeat

Rishi Sunak’s hopes of united front flounder with MPs and even ministers challenging policy and jockeying for position

This weekend’s Tory Party conference will see the starting gun fired on the race for power at next year’s general election. But Mr Sunak faces an almighty battle, write Kate Devlin and Adam Forrest

Two MPs distance themselves from home secretary’s talk of ‘existential challenge’ as she called for human rights reform

Six young people from Portugal will take on 32 countries in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday for not doing enough to stop global warming. The unprecedented hearing is the world’s largest climate legal action to date.

A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a legal action against 33 European governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over what they say is a failure to adequately tackle global heating. Now, the Strasbourg court will be hearing them on 27 September,…

UNHCR defends 1951 convention after UK home secretary’s speech on ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’

The Home Secretary was speaking during a trip to Washington DC, as she pointed to the need to reform the United Nations’ Refugee Convention.

The Home Secretary said during a speech in the US that millions of asylum seekers were being incentivised to ‘try their luck’.