Nicholas Cecil is Political Editor of the Evening Standard. He covers politics at Westminster, foreign affairs, the economy, intelligence and security, and other major stories affecting London and Britain including the Covid-19 epidemic, climate change, air pollution and occasionally sport stories....
Nicholas Cecil is Political Editor of the Evening Standard. He covers politics at Westminster, foreign affairs, the economy, intelligence and security, and other major stories affecting London and Britain including the Covid-19 epidemic, climate change, air pollution and occasionally sport stories.
More than 2,520 children have been killed or injured in Putin’s war in Ukraine, United Nations children’s organisation UNICEF has said, with the real death toll likely to be higher that this UN-verified figure
Underwater sensors may also be installed to detect attempts to damage cables and pipelines
The EU would retaliate to Trump tariffs, says French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot
The Cabinet minister stressed the whole Government was committed to legally binding climate change targets
The UK is ready to take ‘the strongest possible response’ as part of its ‘homeland’ security operations
Shadow transport secretary Gareth Bacon previously said the proposal to expand the west London airport would be ‘eye-wateringly expensive and environmentally calamitous’
Footage shared online showed people fleeing an enormous explosion
The Migration Advisory Committee is reviewing the Minimum Income Requirement for family visas
The Chancellor vowed to stick to her fiscal rules on day-to-day spending and reducing the UK’s debt
She is facing more difficult decisions on the dire state of public finances
Exclusive: Heidi Alexander is the eighth Cabinet minister known to have objected to a bigger Heathrow, as has Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
Kremlin indicates it sees nothing new in President Trump’s threat to hit Russia with new sanctions and tariffs
In a message to Vladimir Putin, Defence Secretary John Healey said ‘we see you, we know what you are doing and we will not shy away from robust action to protect this country’
Chancellor adopted one of Margaret Thatcher’s famous phrases to argue that ‘there is no alternative’
For moving traffic offences such as stopping in a yellow box when not allowed, 35% of appeals were successful
Environmental groups have warned of the climate change impact of hundreds of thousands more flights which could also blight parts of London with noise
A decision to push ahead with a massive expansion of Heathrow is likely to be strongly opposed by Ed Miliband and Sadiq Khan
The Russian president stressed he was open to dialogue with the new US administration on Ukraine and nuclear arms
French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the European Union would not ‘let other nations of the world attack its sovereign borders, whoever they are’
Violent disorder erupted in towns and cities in the UK last summer after the Southport stabbings
The Foreign Secretary believes the incoming US president wil be ‘fixed and focused’ on encouraging such an agreement