David Lammy cited disgraced comedian Bill Cosby as one of his childhood role models, in comments edited out of a Ministry of Justice video.

People are leaving Britain in droves, we face a "growth emergency" and Labour's tax bonanza is driving wealth out of Britain, Business Secretary Peter Kyle has said in an extraordinary admission.

Europe's wind turbine industry faces ruin because the Chinese are using coal and state subsidies to massively undercut the European market, making turbines for a third of the cost, experts have warned.

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.

We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.

The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing against the acquittal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Quran in a protest, reigniting fears Britain could introduce blasphemy laws by the back door.

London cinema Rich Mix has banned a documentary by Spiked about free speech because it does not "align with our values and mission".

The Hillsborough Law is well-intentioned, but its effect will be to transfer yet more power from Parliament to unelected judges – the opposite of what is needed to restore public trust and democratic accountability.

Lockdowns could have been "avoided entirely" during Covid had ministers more quickly imposed "stringent restrictions" such as social distancing and face masks, the COVID-19 Inquiry has concluded.

Labour’s new definition of Islamophobia is not wanted by the majority of the public in any form, with just a fifth backing it, a poll has found, amid a free speech backlash.