Rarely in politics or public life does a “first test” — that media expression referring to an early, unexpected event — prove ...

The chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has rubbished the last government’s response to her ...

Keir Starmer has delivered a statement from Downing Street on last summer’s knife attack in Southport, which left three young ...

A senior Conservative frontbencher has said the government must reveal “what they knew and when” about Southport killer Axel ...

The home secretary has said that the inquiry into the Southport murders will consider the wider challenge of rising youth ...