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Exclusive: Ministers have finally confirmed what The Independent revealed weeks ago - high speed rail will not reach the north of England

The leg of HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester is in doubt because of spiralling costs.

GRANT Shapps’s Sunday morning interview with the BBC has been labelled a “car crash” as he was grilled on a range of topics and defended the…

By any Whitehall standard, the Ministry of Defence is a weird place. I am not just referring to its forbidding architectural lines, partly Orwell’s 1984 Ministry of Truth and Harry Potter’s Hogwarts, but its very nature. It is a hybrid, a frontline Whitehall ministry and an active military headquarters.

An initial date of 2040 was announced in July 2017 by then-environment secretary Michael Gove.

As the war enters its 574th day, these are the main developments.

It marks Mr Shapps’ first meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Rustem Umerov, after he was promoted in a Cabinet mini-reshuffle in August.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said Grant Shapps and Michelle Donelan have made clear they are ensuring they use TikTok in the ‘correct way’.

This year’s competition is the sixth and will see 550 competitors from 21 countries take part.

Kemi Badenoch leads the latest Cabinet popularity rankings, receiving the highest approval rating from Tory members.

The row over crumbling concrete is growing as schools claimed they filled in safety surveys “months ago”, after the Education Secretary told headteachers to “get off their backsides” and send back the forms.