Sweden and Finland have formally submitted their applications to join Nato, in one of the biggest geopolitical consequences to date of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Headline CPI rate fuelled by increase in household energy bills plus rising food and transport costs

A senior Twitter engineer has been secretly recorded admitting that the social media giant is “censoring the right” — and that he and his co-workers are “Commie as f–k.

Analysis: leak blindsided US officials, caused shock waves in Europe and appears to have annoyed No 10

Educational progress and social development of four- and five-year-olds suffered severely

More nurses leave NHS than at any time since Covid struck, many reporting stress as their main reason

Conservative MPs to urge chancellor to tackle inflation with VAT cuts, energy bill support and improved benefits

Campaigners welcome health secretary’s promise of ‘seismic shift’ in care, but say it must be backed by urgent funding and delivery

People ‘who do not necessarily pose terrorism risk’ referred to anti-extremism programme to speed up access to support

The Tesla chief says the deal cannot go ahead unless the platform proves that fewer than 5% of users are bots

President attacks those who promote racist conspiracy theory ‘for power, political gain and for profit’ but says ‘evil will not win’