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London’s commuters are likely to be hit by a fresh three days of travel chaos as Tube drivers are set to strike. In an escalation in the long-running dispute over pay and the launch of the Night Tube, drivers are set to decide on Monday whether to press ahead with a walkout which would cripple the capital’s transport network. If ...

Thousands of teachers are preparing to go on strike and stage a protest in Whitehall in March over real-terms cuts to funding for sixth-form colleges. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has sent an indicative strike ballot to its 4,000 members at 93 sixth-form colleges in England and Wales which are estimated to have lost about £100m since 2010. Should ...

 A heavily pregnant Labour MP was allegedly accused of “bringing down the whole of womankind” and “playing the pregnancy card” after she broke the rules of the Commons by leaving a debate to eat. According to the Evening Standard Tulip Siddiq was allegedly told by Eleanor Laing, the Deputy Speaker of the Commons, that she had “made women look bad” ...

The UK faces a “cocktail” of serious threats from a slowing global economy as 2016 begins, Chancellor George Osborne will warn. Mr Osborne will say this year is likely to be one of the toughest since the financial crisis. He told the BBC that far from “mission accomplished” on the economy, “2016 is the year of mission critical”. His message ...

Great British Bake Off champ Nadiya Hussain has revealed she is receiving protection from police over alleged anti-Islamic abuse levelled at her online. The star, whose victory in the final was watched by 13.4million people, said she had been targeted over her Muslim faith and wearing a headscarf. The star told of her abuse on ITV’s Loose Women. She explained: ...

Flood warnings remained in place across almost all parts of Britain on Wednesday, with the north-east of England worst hit overnight. Torrential rain flooded out residents on one Newcastle estate for the sixth time in less than a decade, while police divers in Aberdeen joined the search for a missing camper thought to have been caught up in the floods ...

Three Labour MPs have quit the party’s front bench in protest at sackings made by Jeremy Corbyn in his reshuffle. Jonathan Reynolds and Stephen Doughty quit over the sacking of the shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden. Mr Corbyn fired Mr McFadden over “disloyalty” after he appeared to criticise his stance on terrorism. Kevan Jones has quit his defence role over ...

Hundreds of homes have been evacuated and thousands left without power in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland as Storm Frank brings more heavy rain. There are three severe flood warnings, indicating danger to life, in Croston, Lancashire, where villagers are braced for the second flood in a week. About 300 homes are being evacuated in Hawick in the Scottish borders, ...

British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq says her aunt, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, wants her to do politics in Bangladesh, but her mother Sheikh Rehana discourages her. “When my aunt saw me, she told me, ‘Come here, do politics here.’ But Mother says you can enjoy holidays (in Bangladesh), but do not do politics here,” she said while interacting with the ...

 A new house under construction at Taylor Wimpey’s Churchill Place development in Mill Hill, London. The current rate of 150,000 new homes a year is far short of government targets. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Britain’s biggest housebuilders possess enough land to create more than 600,000 new homes, an analysis by the Guardian has found, raising questions about whether they are doing ...