The Latest Breaking News from Britain

The UK’s current housing crisis manifests in several ways, with inadequate numbers of new homes (especially affordable ones), high house prices and rising rents.

Warriors from Britain joined far-flung Byzantine military campaigns in sixth century, grave goods suggest

The advances tracked another record on Wall Street on a holiday-shortened day, while national elections in Britain and France are also on the radar over the next few days.

Millions of voters are going to the polls on Thursday July 4 to choose a new Prime Minister

How the occupants of No 10 brought us austerity, Brexit, Partygate and an economic crash

Jacob Fearnley takes on Novak Djokovic and two all-British battles take place on a bumper Thursday schedule.

Final polls predict unprecedented Labour victory, with Starmer declaring Britain a ‘great nation, with boundless potential’

While French voters ponder the temptation of the far right, across the Channel they are also campaigning. But there, it feels like the revenge of the moderates. Out with Little Britain Brexiteers, out with Jeremy Corbyn's hard left, in with a more genteel version of the Labour Party. Before 2016,…

Letters: Readers respond to an article in which Zadie Smith writes that real change is on the horizon after the Tories ruined Britain