Developers made proposals for 35,000 homes in protected parts of England in 2017 Applications to build an additional 35,000 homes on green belt land were submitted last year, taking the total number proposed for construction on protected land to a record 460,000. New data from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) released on Monday showed that more than 24,000 ...

Universities UK says educating people of all ages would help to meet economic challenges The report calls for continual learning and for policymakers to help reverse the decline in part-time and mature student numbers. Photograph: Sam Edwards/Getty Images/Caiaimage The UK economy could benefit from more people of all ages attending university, a report has concluded. It also suggests the advance ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader: European Union leaders have defended a migration deal struck during talks in Brussels as doubts emerged about whether they would fulfil their promises to build secure centres for processing asylum claims of people rescued at sea. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said Europe had made a step in the right direction on migration as she prepared to ...

Exclusive: Chequers plan ties future governments to EU rules on subsidies, negotiators say Britain’s Brexit negotiators have tapped into growing concerns in Brussels over Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for the British economy, by stressing in recent talks that the Chequers plan would tie any future prime minister to the EU’s evolving rules on state aid in perpetuity, according to EU sources. ...

Jean Bizet says safeguard on migration should be discussed at May-Macron meeting Europe should try to keep the UK in the EU by improving its offer on an emergency brake on the free movement of people, first made before the 2016 referendum, the chair of the French senate’s European committee has said. Jean Bizet was speaking to the Guardian before ...

  F R Chowdhury: It was Wednesday 18-July-2018, I was still on my morning breakfast listening to the TV news. The headline news was about a court verdict that gave £210,000.oo damages to Sir Cliff Richard for breach of his privacy by BBC. The story relates to a police search of Sir Richard’s house to look for suspected evidence of ...

Labour leader outlines UK-first approach as he set out plans for reviving Britain’s industrial base after Brexit Government manufacturing contracts should be awarded where possible to UK companies, Jeremy Corbyn has argued, as he outlined Labour’s plans for reviving Britain’s industrial base following Brexit. In a speech to business leaders in Birmingham which at times veered close to advocating protectionist ...

Service centre staff say glitches having harmful effect on huge number of claimants Universal credit is so riddled with design flaws and process faults that it is practically guaranteed to generate mistakes and delays that would push vulnerable benefit claimants into hardship, according to whistleblowers. Service centre workers have told the Guardian that glitches and errors in the “cobbled-together” system ...

Prime minister sets off on summer tour to gain public support for Chequers plan Theresa May will chair a cabinet meeting in the north-east of England as she starts a summer campaign intended to gain public support for her much-criticised Chequers Brexit plan. The visit on Monday is intended primarily to show the government’s ongoing support for the “northern powerhouse” ...

  Conservative Friends of Bangladesh organised its annual dinner and award giving ceremony on 17th of July in a hotel in Kensington.  A number of British MPs and senior party leaders took part in the dinner. While addressing the audience, the MPs told that there will be MPs of Bangladeshi origin from Conservative Party in near future. A number of Conservative ...