The Daily Telegraph
Putin’s trawlers spy on Britain
RUSSIA is deploying its fishing fleet to spy on the UK’S critical undersea cables, The Telegraph can disclose. Civilian vessels are being tracked by Nato as they carry out espionage for Vladimir Putin in waters around Britain. Ministers have confirmed...
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Teachers face ban on Palestine badges
TEACHERS face being banned from wearing pro-palestine badges following a review of anti-semitism in schools. The report by Sir David Bell, commissioned by the Government, will detail the scale of abuse suffered by Jewish pupils, with three in five...
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MI5 chief: Russia did not sway Brexit vote
THE head of MI5 has challenged suggestions that Russia swung the Brexit referendum, insisting the result is “not in dispute”. Speaking after Andy Burnham was accused of implying the referendum was illegitimate, Sir Ken Mccallum said there was a...
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IMF warns against Budget giveaways
THE International Monetary Fund has warned against unfunded giveaways to ease cost-of-living pressures before John Healey’s maiden Budget. A fortnight before the Chancellor’s first major tax-and-spending event, the IMF downgraded its outlook for UK...
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Putin breaks Trump’s ‘ceasefire’
RUSSIA attacked a power plant in Ukraine just hours after Donald Trump claimed he had brokered a ceasefire on energy sites. Volodymyr Zelensky said glide bombs and drones hit a major facility in the country’s second city of Kharkiv, despite the...
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Bank chief: Don’t risk repeat of Truss chaos
THE Governor of the Bank of England has warned that further damage to Britain’s credibility from rising spending could trigger a repeat of the Liz Truss crisis. Andrew Bailey used a speech less than three weeks before John Healey’s maiden budget to...
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We’re ready for the fight
KEMI BADENOCH has pledged to fight for Conservative values as she promised tax cuts for middle-class voters. Declaring her party is “coming back”, Mrs Badenoch said a future Tory government would abolish inheritance tax (IHT) on family homes. In an...
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Badenoch to get the youth working
Kemi Badenoch has pledged to halve the ‘jobs tax’ on young people to save businesses thousands of pounds a year. The Conservative leader, who was seen partying at the Tory conference this week, has said that a future Tory government would lower...
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King tells Andrew: I won’t fund court fight
THE King has insisted that private funding he gives to Andrew Mountbattenwindsor must not be used to pay for his legal action against police. A Buckingham Palace source said the monarch had no involvement in the former Duke of York’s application for a...
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Andrew takes police to court over arrest
ANDREW MOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR has launched legal action against Thames Valley Police over his arrest, The Telegraph can reveal. The former Duke of York, who was detained by police eight months ago in relation to the Epstein files, has asked a judge to...
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Trump tells Europe to release diesel
DONALD TRUMP has demanded that Europe release emergency diesel reserves or risk being cut off from US supplies. Britain joined crisis talks with European allies yesterday after the US president threatened to ban diesel exports to France and...
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Hero who stopped Israel’s 9/11
A PASSENGER on a hijacked plane has described wrestling an alleged terrorist out of the cockpit before taking control of the jet, preventing a possible 9/11style attack on Israel. A Flydubai jet carrying Israelis from Dubai to Tel Aviv went into a...
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Triple lock scrapped by 2030
ANDY BURNHAM has announced he will scrap the triple lock by 2030 to pay for an Nhs-style care system. The Prime Minister said he would cut pensions by about £15bn a year by the end of the next decade, funding a national care service offering free...
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Anya sparkles at Paris fashion parade
The actress Anya Taylor-joy arriving at the Musée des Arts last night for a dinner hosted by Tiffany for Paris Fashion Week
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Iran link to RAF bomb plot
COUNTER-TERRORISM police are investigating whether Iran was behind a suspected bomb plot targeting a Royal Air Force base. Five men were arrested yesterday for terror and explosive offences after three suspicious vans were found just 440 yards from...
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Fiennes kept in care home illegally
SIR RANULPH FIENNES was “unlawfully deprived of his liberty” when his wife placed him in a care home, a watchdog concluded. The retired explorer has not been seen in public for two years, and The Telegraph has learnt that he has been placed in a...
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Security alert as second boat evades Border Force
AN urgent security review has been ordered after as many as 10 migrants went missing when Border Force failed to intercept a small boat for a second time in 24 hours. The dinghy, believed to be carrying about 30 Channel migrants, reached Samphire Hoe...
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Burnham bows to Trump on Chagos
ANDY BURNHAM is reviewing the Chagos Islands deal after Donald Trump said it was “terrible” in their first face-to-face meeting. The Prime Minister said he was doing “everything possible to find a resolution to the issue”, opening the door to...
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Burnham sends RAF to help Saudis
BRITAIN will give military support to Saudi Arabia to fight the Houthis in Yemen, Andy Burnham has confirmed. An RAF aircraft will assist Saudi jets with air-to-air refuelling to help prevent strikes on its oil facilities. Saudi Arabia has faced...
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Labour eyes £14bn tax raid to help the poorest
LABOUR is considering raising capital gains tax (CGT) to fund a £20bn handout for the lowest earners. The Prime Minister and Chancellor are understood to be reviewing proposals to raise CGT to as high as 45 per cent to increase the income tax personal...
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Labour’s tax raid on holiday cottages
LABOUR has drawn up plans for a tax raid on holiday cottages ahead of the Budget. John Healey, the Chancellor, is considering taxing holiday lets as second homes rather than as businesses, adding thousands of pounds to the cost of running...
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Palace hits back at Diana’s brother
BUCKINGHAM PALACE has accused Earl Spencer of “clouded reasoning” after he claimed the King made disparaging comments about Diana, Princess of Wales, in the days after her death. In a new book, the Earl alleges that during a phone call before the...
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Mayors to control water companies
MAYORS are to be given powers to control water companies under Andy Burnham’s plans to increase state control of utilities, The Telegraph can reveal. The Prime Minister is planning to announce nine new regional bodies to oversee water firms, with the...
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Villages join revolt over migrant camps
A VILLAGE fightback against migrant camps is set to spread across the country. Piddington, in Oxfordshire, will today hold a symbolic referendum on leaving the United Kingdom in protest against plans to move up to 1,250 male asylum seekers into a...
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Hospitality chiefs urge PM to cut VAT
BRITAIN’S struggling hospitality sector has called on Andy Burnham to honour his pledge to slash VAT. More than 800 pub, restaurant and hotel leaders have signed a letter urging the Prime Minister to reduce the levy from 20 per cent to 10 per cent and...
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Into battle for Bayeux
AT 9.34am, a bloodcurdling roar echoes across the neoclassical forecourt of the British Museum. Rowdy punters exulting because they have tickets for its blockbuster new Bayeux Tapestry exhibition? Or boisterous lads anticipating an early pint in The...
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Labour’s new tax assault on hospitality
MAYORS will be handed the power to impose unlimited taxes on tourists that could lead to families paying hundreds of pounds more to holiday in England. The hospitality industry was surprised last night after Andy Burnham gave the go-ahead for English...
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Air traffic collapse grounds flights
TENS of thousands of airline passengers were left stranded last night after an air traffic control failure grounded flights across Britain. A fault with the flight processing system at National Air Traffic Services (Nats) headquarters near Southampton...
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King tells Harry: No return to the Firm
THE KING has confirmed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be treated as “private citizens”, in a statement issued on the eve of an official review of the couple’s security. A letter sent yesterday on the direction of the King made clear that the...
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Scrap the triple lock, businesses tell Healey
ONE of Britain’s most prominent business groups has called for the pension triple lock to be scrapped to help fix the ailing economy. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), which represents more than 65,000 firms employing 7.4 million workers, urged...
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Argentina threat to Falklands oil fields
THE Argentinian president is set to impose sanctions on oil drilling off the Falkland Islands in a move that will trigger a fresh row with Britain. Javier Milei was expected to make a national address in the early hours of today announcing new...
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Bayeux Tapestry unveiled in a very entente amicale
THE KING has described the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain as a “precious symbol of trust” that now appears to be “sadly” lacking between nations. The monarch was joined by Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to view the historic artwork at...
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Markets turn on Burnham
ANDY BURNHAM’S Commons debut as Prime Minister was overshadowed yesterday by a market rout that sent borrowing costs to their highest in decades. Addressing MPS for the first time since entering No10, Mr Burnham claimed that “life is too expensive and...
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SAS chief: Army witch hunts put UK at risk
WITCH HUNTS against British special forces put the country at risk from Russia, the head of the association that represents SAS soldiers has warned. Brigadier Ed Butler, a retired former commanding officer of 22 SAS, said that recruitment into the...
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Burnham to free high-risk criminals
CRIMINALS deemed a danger to society will be freed from jail under Andy Burnham’s early release plans, MPS and former justice secretaries have warned. Opponents said Mr Burnham’s plans to create more prison space by ending a category of indefinite...
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Briton’s desperate hunt for wife lost in Nepal floods
A BRITISH businessman is flying to Nepal to search for his family who disappeared in devastating flash floods. Speaking to The Telegraph from Gatwick Airport, Pramod Poudel, 24, said he was rushing to his home village to join a massive search...
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Dozens of Britons feared dead as flash floods hit Nepal
DOZENS of British citizens including a 13-year-old girl are among hundreds of tourists missing after massive floods swept through Nepal and Tibet. At least 160 people have been killed by the torrents that struck suddenly yesterday morning following a...
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Birmingham set to be first 20mph city
BIRMINGHAM is set to become England’s first 20mph city by lowering speed limits on the majority of its roads. In plans updated last week, the Liberal Democrat, Green and independentled council said it wants all routes apart from A-roads to become...
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Giovanni Pernice: BBC left me feeling suicidal
Giovanni Pernice, the former Strictly Come Dancing star, tells today’s Telegraph that the BBC’S treatment of him in the wake of the Amanda Abbington scandal left him feeling suicidal. ‘I feel they hung me out to dry to cover their backs,’ he says.
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Russia’s secret bases threaten Nato
RUSSIA has installed secret bases capable of firing high-powered drones deep into Nato territory. A Telegraph investigation can reveal 10 Kremlin bases with newly built launch pads for Moscow’s most advanced long-range suicide drones. Some of the...
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Caught in his web
Tom Holland and Zendaya have pulled off what may be the celebrity wedding of the year in private... at a hotel in Surrey. Already legally married, The Odyssey and Spider-man actors had a £500,000 celebration this week at the Beaverbrook estate.
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‘Crypto king’ fraudster linked to Streeting donations
WES STREETING was bankrolled by a think tank linked to one of the world’s most notorious fraudsters, The Telegraph can disclose. Mr Streeting, who is now the Defence Secretary, accepted £37,500 in donations from Labour for the Long Term (LLT) in 2022...
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Kemi the copper
Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, joined a police drugs raid in Surrey yesterday and promised the Tories would recruit 10,000 extra officers. She said the police were being ‘let down by a system that allows criminals to get away with it’.
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Afghan aid worker accused of suitcase murder
Afghani Sharif Ahmadzai with his American wife, Alaina Hall, whose concerns about her husband’s behaviour led to him being arrested on suspicion of murdering British woman Elisabeth-jane Ross in Athens and disposing of her remains in a suitcase....
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PM vows relentless action on migrants as Reform plans blockade
REFORM UK has vowed to use the Royal Navy to make the channel “impenetrable” to small-boat migrants. The party pledged to launch the biggest military operation in the English Channel since the Second World War to force boats back to France. Ahead of...
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Wildfires close in on Sizewell nuclear power stations
Britain’s biggest nuclear power plant, Sizewell in Suffolk, is on alert because of a huge wildfire burning close by on Dunwich Heath. About 120 firefighters and 18 fire engines were battling to control the blaze, which is expected to last at least two...
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Calls grow for England to boycott World Cup
THE Football Association is under mounting pressure to boycott the World Cup over claims of a £15bn tournament sell-out. England’s governing body joined the Prime Minister and three other federations in criticising the plan by Gianni Infantino, the...
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Glamorous Goodwood
Horse-racing fans enjoyed the hot weather in their finest outfits yesterday during the opening day of the Qatar Goodwood Festival in West Sussex. The meet, one of the highlights of the British flat racing season, runs until Saturday.
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Brothers in arms
Andy Burnham met Volodymyr Zelensky in Portsmouth yesterday, where the pair spoke to British and Ukrainian sailors on HMS Queen Elizabeth. Mr Burnham told the Ukrainian president: ‘To put it simply, Volodymyr, I want you to know that we’ve got your...
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French look to evacuate Bordeaux as fires rage on
BORDEAUX was last night bracing for the arrival of deadly wildfires, with French officials considering an evacuation of the entire city. Fires were raging just nine miles from the famed wine capital, home to 270,000 people. Thomas Cazenave, the mayor...
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Now that’s a royal entrance
THE King and Queen are used to being spirited to their destinations amid a throng of outriders and flashing lights. But last night they stepped it up a notch, defying the rules of time and space to arrive at the Commonwealth Games from Balmoral in...
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‘It is deplorable that freeing prisoners early is acceptable’
THE widow of Pc Andrew Harper has attacked Labour’s early release of prisoners as “deplorable” after it emerged that two of her husband’s killers could soon be freed. Lissie Harper criticised the Government’s early release scheme for adding to...
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Rayner’s return
Angela Rayner in Downing Street ahead of yesterday’s Cabinet meeting. She was reappointed as Housing Secretary on Monday, less than a year after being forced to resign in September following a Telegraph investigation into her tax affairs.
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Burnham pins hope on Healey
ANDY BURNHAM has appointed John Healey as Chancellor of the Exchequer in a surprise move that signals an increase in defence spending. The former defence secretary, who resigned last month saying the Treasury was “unwilling” to spend the money needed...
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Madonna and the two Ronnies rock World Cup
Madonna entertains the crowd during the World Cup half-time show last night with former Brazilian football legends Ronaldinho and Ronaldo. The lavish show in New York, which was attended by Donald Trump, the US president, also featured Colombian pop...
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‘Nervous’ Claudia quits her chat show
CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN has quit her BBC chat show after one series, saying she was “just too nervous to enjoy it”. The Claudia Winkleman Show launched in March and was expected to be a hit following the presenter’s success as host of The Traitors and...
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England’s World Cup dream over
THE hurt endures. Football isn’t coming home. England came agonisingly close to reaching their first World Cup final in 60 years. And failed. Two Argentinian goals in seven minutes, one in added time, knocked England out of the World Cup. Fans who had...
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British citizens’ fingerprints to be taken as they enter Gibraltar
BRITISH citizens face having their fingerprints and passports checked when flying into Gibraltar under new post-brexit border controls from today. The old border post with Spain is being torn down, with Spanish checks moved to the international...
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Police under fire over Widdecombe terror probe
DEVON and Cornwall Police is under fire for its handling of the Ann Widdecombe murder case after it was declared a terrorist investigation. The force had repeatedly insisted there was nothing to suggest the crime had been politically motivated or...
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Widdecombe suspect drove 300 miles to her house
A MAN suspected of murdering Ann Widdecombe is believed to have driven nearly 300 miles to her Dartmoor home with a “wooden pole” on the morning of her death, The Telegraph can disclose. The former Tory minister, who defected to the Brexit Party in...
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Happy feet
SOME days are for soothing geopolitical tensions and others are for frolicking with penguins. For the King, yesterday proved light relief as he joined the tourists at London Zoo to enjoy some time with the animals. He appeared to have a grand old...
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The court of King Arthur
Britain’s Arthur Fery will play for a place in the Wimbledon final tomorrow after entrancing the Centre Court crowd, including the Queen, yesterday with a straight-sets victory over Italy’s Flavio Cobolli, the ninth seed. The 23-year-old is the first...
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Farage gamble turns to farce
NIGEL FARAGE’S gamble of resigning to fight a by-election has descended into farce after the Tories and Labour refused to stand against him. The Reform leader declared yesterday that he was resigning as MP for Clacton and standing in the subsequent...
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Fery-tale continues
The Wimbledon dream goes on for Arthur Fery after his victory over Grigor Dimitrov on Wimbledon’s Centre Court sees him through to the quarter-finals. The British novice player will now face Flavio Cobolli, the Italian No 9 seed Sport, page 12-13
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