Nicholas Cecil

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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

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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.

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Politics

Three killed including 17-year-old girl in drone attack on Ukraine

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

17 Apr 2025
EstLink 2 power cable cut
Politics

Ships face Baltic Sea tax to stop Putin sabotage of underwater cables

Underwater sensors may also be installed to detect attempts to damage cables and pipelines

29 Jan 2025
Donald Trump
Politics

France warns Trump: US has 'everything to lose from trade war' with EU

The EU would retaliate to Trump tariffs, says French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot

29 Jan 2025
Ed Miliband speaking at the Environmental Audit Committee
Politics

Heathrow 3rd runway won't fly if it busts UK carbon targets - Miliband

The Cabinet minister stressed the whole Government was committed to legally binding climate change targets

27 Jan 2025
Politics

Russian ships damaging UK undersea cables 'face raid by Royal Marines'

The UK is ready to take ‘the strongest possible response’ as part of its ‘homeland’ security operations

27 Jan 2025
Politics

New Heathrow runway faces 'major obstacles,' Tory transport chief says

Shadow transport secretary Gareth Bacon previously said the proposal to expand the west London airport would be ‘eye-wateringly expensive and environmentally calamitous’

27 Jan 2025
People run as smoke rises from an explosion during what the governor of Russia's Ryazan region southeast of Moscow describes as an air attack, in Ryazan
Politics

Oil refinery east of Moscow hit in drone attack by Ukraine on Russia

Footage shared online showed people fleeing an enormous explosion

24 Jan 2025
Politics

Raising £29,000 family visa income threshold: Record numbers respond

The Migration Advisory Committee is reviewing the Minimum Income Requirement for family visas

24 Jan 2025
Politics

Reeves to 'make changes' if needed amid spending cuts or tax rise talk

The Chancellor vowed to stick to her fiscal rules on day-to-day spending and reducing the UK’s debt

23 Jan 2025
The Chancellor attends Davos 2025
Politics

Will taxes be raised by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in 2025?

She is facing more difficult decisions on the dire state of public finances

23 Jan 2025
Politics

Exclusive: Transport Secretary opposed third Heathrow runway

Exclusive: Heidi Alexander is the eighth Cabinet minister known to have objected to a bigger Heathrow, as has Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

23 Jan 2025
Politics

Vladimir Putin defies Donald Trump’s threats over Ukraine war

Kremlin indicates it sees nothing new in President Trump’s threat to hit Russia with new sanctions and tariffs

23 Jan 2025
Politics

Royal Navy submarine surfaces near Russian spy ship in UK waters

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’

22 Jan 2025
Politics

Reeves woos business chiefs in Davos with Thatcher defence of Budget

Chancellor adopted one of Margaret Thatcher’s famous phrases to argue that ‘there is no alternative’

22 Jan 2025
Politics

Drivers in London 'win over half of appeals against bus lane fines'

For moving traffic offences such as stopping in a yellow box when not allowed, 35% of appeals were successful

22 Jan 2025
Politics

Starmer and 16 ministers urged not to 'U-turn' on Heathrow 3rd runway

Environmental groups have warned of the climate change impact of hundreds of thousands more flights which could also blight parts of London with noise

21 Jan 2025
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Business

Reeves ducks question on whether she backs Heathrow third runway

A decision to push ahead with a massive expansion of Heathrow is likely to be strongly opposed by Ed Miliband and Sadiq Khan

21 Jan 2025
Politics

Trump wants to stop World War Three - Russia welcomes that, says Putin

The Russian president stressed he was open to dialogue with the new US administration on Ukraine and nuclear arms

20 Jan 2025
Politics

Trump warned by France against sending US military to seize Greenland

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’

20 Jan 2025
Northern Towns See Further Unrest From Far Right
Politics

Police want access to driving licences to catch Far-Right rioters

Violent disorder erupted in towns and cities in the UK last summer after the Southport stabbings

20 Jan 2025
Politics

Trump wants to 'change game' in Middle East with Israel-Saudi deal

The Foreign Secretary believes the incoming US president wil be ‘fixed and focused’ on encouraging such an agreement

20 Jan 2025