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Tory leadership candidates prepare to make direct pitches to Tory members as ballots go out

The scheme was launched in April 2021 and has received 119,305 applicants according to the latest figures

BT boss Philip Jansen today expressed his “sadness and disappointment” as unions head out on a two-day strike that starts tomorrow.

Sadiq Khan’s hopes of reforming the law on cannabis have been dealt a blow by a prominent Labour MP.

London is still reaping the rewards of the 2012 Olympics, it was claimed today, as the 10-year anniversary of the Games was marked.

A headteacher secretly reported a couple to social services after they complained their daughter had been bruised at school.

London’s Olympic boroughs have seen childhood obesity rates soar to some of the highest in the country in the decade since the Games, analysis by the Evening Standard reveals on Wednesday.

Judges from an ethnic minority background make up fewer than one in six currently practising in London courts, in what has been described as “endemic inequality” by critics.

Last night’s big BBC debate between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak was an opportunity for viewers, the majority of whom will not have a say in the outcome, to learn more about their next Prime Minister. In which case, many would have come away with only a partial understanding of…

Union chiefs told ‘to do right thing’ as Commonwealth Games kick off

Truss pledges action on cost of living while Sunak vows to govern like Margaret Thatcher