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Phillip Schofield admits affair with ‘much younger man’
ITV investigated Phillip Schofield over his former relationship
Man who crashed into Downing Street charged with indecent child images
“Total chaos”: Long delays at UK airports due to e-gates failure
British Soap Awards to ‘go ahead’ despite Phillip Schofield confession
Phillip Schofield & agents full statement after ITV host admits affair

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Hibs suffered their own 7-0 disaster against Malmo.

Aidan Smith: Call Farage, we need another Brexit to get our clubs out of Europe

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks at the National Conservatism Conference in London (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

‘National Conservatism’ will play its part in Tories’ downfall – Euan McColm

Ideological fools like Jacob Rees-Mogg should be ignored (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Sunak must focus on economy and ignore hardline Brexiteers – Scotsman comment

Jacob Rees-Mogg brands junior doctors ‘irresponsible’ for strike on GB News - current pay is ‘perfectly fair’

Jacob Rees-Mogg brands junior doctors strike ‘irresponsible’

Rishi Sunak has ditched plans to ditch thousands of retained EU laws by the end of the year.

UK Government retreats from plan to ditch EU laws this year

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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s stunning family home on sale for £2.75 million

Boris Johnson lost support among Tory MPs after his appearance.

Analysis: Boris Johnson makes a bad situation worse and his supporters know it

Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson has revealed he will be paid £100,000 a year for hosting a show on GB News.

Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson to earn £100,000 for presenting GB News show

Religious faith can inspire conviction politicians (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Church of the Latter Day Woke’ is more worrying than believers like Kate Forbes

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets with Ursula von der Leyen during the Cop27 summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.  

Rishi Sunak appears to be on the verge of agreeing a Brexit deal aimed at easing trade friction in Northern Ireland as he enters into “final talks” with the European Union.

Sunak set ‘final talks’ with EU on Northern Ireland protocol

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks people should not be too 'snowflakey' about bullying allegations against Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Rees-Mogg's warning against 'snowflakey' attitudes to bullying seems out of date

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt gives a television interview the morning after his autumn statement, outside the BBC studios in central London. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Hunt’s higher taxes could be here to stay for ‘several decades’

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss's mini-budget almost broke the UK financially, according to the Bank of England.

UK 'hours from potential financial meltdown after Liz Truss mini-budget'

A leading financial organisation has warned against bringing Boris Johnson back as prime minister.

Boris Johnson as PM would mean markets “chaos”, warns finance group

Rishi Sunak outside his home in London, following the resignation of Liz Truss

Rishi Sunak officially enters the race to become the next Prime Minister

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at Gatwick Airport in London, after travelling on a flight from the Caribbean

Boris Johnson will stand in Tory leadership race, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

Rishi Sunak outside his home in London on Saturday morning.  He is believed to have become the first Conservative leadership candidate to secure the backing of 100 MPs, shoring up sufficient support to be on the ballot for Monday's vote. Beresford Hodge/PA Wire

Rishi Sunak 'secures backing of 100 MPs' as Boris flies home from Caribbean

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he has asked the Serjeant at Arms and other officials to investigate allegations made about incidents in the Commons on Wednesday night.

Speaker launches inquiry into claims senior Tories bullied MPs in Commons vote

Liz Truss at PMQs

Liz Truss rules out public spending cuts

The Bank of England in the city of London. The latest data means the economy is on track to contract overall in the third quarter

UK economy unexpectedly shrinks in August as recession risk rises

The UK Government is offering more licences to look for oil and gas in the North Sea (Picture: Andy Buchanan/WPA pool/Getty Images)

North Sea oil and gas licensing should not be battle of extremes – Brian Wilson

Liz Truss does not appear to have learned from the crisis created by her Chancellor's 'mini-budget' (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

What time is Liz Truss’ speech at the Conservative Party Conference?

Nadine Dorries backed Liz Truss but has now called for a general election.

Nadine Dorries calls on Liz Truss to hold general election

Jacob Rees-Mogg ) looks at a photographer as he arrives to attend the opening day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham

Anger as Rees-Mogg’s former business partner made a peer and government minister

Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg took a dig at the situation in Edinburgh.

Jacob Rees-Mogg criticises Edinburgh City Council over rubbish on streets

The UK government has announced it will support new drilling licences for North Sea oil and gas and lift the moratorium on fracking in England. Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images

Threat of court action over UK’s 'climate-destroying' oil and gas plans

Prime Minister Liz Truss addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Picture: Adam Gray/SWNS

Truss defends UK Government decision to lift moratorium on fracking

Picture: John Devlin

Scottish councils 'facing increased energy costs of around £100m'

Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks to journalists at the Empire State Building in New York.

Liz Truss admits her tax cuts will disproportionately benefit the rich

Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg leaving 10 Downing Street, London, following the first Cabinet meeting with the new Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Analysis: Why climate campaigners are worried on Rees-Mogg as business secretary

Public EV charging hits £1 per kWh as Osprey hikes prices by 50%

While serving as the Prince of Wales, King Charles III made a stirring speech at last year's COP26 climate change summit (Picture: Yves Herman/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Climate change can be defining issue of King Charles’s reign – Martyn McLaughlin

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responds to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's statement on the Programme for Government in the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood,

North Sea jobs should be prioritised over net zero targets, says Douglas Ross

Liz Truss will be the third female prime minster of the United Kingdom (Getty Images)

Liz Truss: who might make new prime minister’s cabinet?

Labour MP Jess Phillips. Picture: PA

Jess Phillips: Civil servants are being 'treated like s***' by Tory ministers

Boris Johnson and Douglas Ross

Douglas Ross: Boris Johnson used 'rude' words when I called for him to resign

John Swinney names Liz Truss' comments on Nicola Sturgeon 'obnoxious' after the Tory PM hopeful said the First Minister is an 'attention seeker' who is best ignored (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images).

Ally of Liz Truss hits out at 'moaning' Nicola Sturgeon

BP has revealed second-quarter profits more than trebled as it reaped the benefits of soaring oil and gas prices.

BP reports huge profits as energy bills soar

Is Liz Truss a modern-day Savonarola? (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Truss's Bonfire of the Vanities sounds more dogmatic than the original

Rishi Suna  attends a speech at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre

Sunak lashes out at 'fairytale' tax pledges as Shapps and Raab back him

Britain puts brakes on mandatory speed limiter technology

Jacob Rees-Mogg and Angus Robertson

Ministers engage in phoney EU law war amid claims of UK-led 'race to the bottom'

Boris Johnson's government needs to be more active in solving problems like the railway strikes (Picture: Ben Stansall/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Johnson's inaction over growing strikes risks fracturing social contract

Prime Minister Boris Johnson (centre) chairs a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, after he survived an attempt by Tory MPs to oust him as party leader following a confidence vote in his leadership on Monday evening at the Houses of Parliament. Picture date: Tuesday June 7, 2022. Picture: PA

Labour and Lib Dems need to unite under a 'Boris out' message - Euan McColm

Boris Johnson will face a vote of confidence this evening.

Boris Johnson to face confidence vote by Tory MPs

Nikki Slowey, co-founder and director of Flexibility Works

Hybrid working is good for you - Nikki Slowey

Owen Paterson resigned as the MP for North Shropshire after he was found to have broken Westminster lobbying rules (Picture: Victoria Jones/PA)

Hungry? Cold? Work longer hours, say callous Tories – Laura Waddell

Partygate fines is a 'non-story' insists Tory multi-millionaire Jacob Rees-Mogg

Partygate fines is a 'non-story' insists Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg

The PM is understood to have told UK Government ministers of his plan to shed 90,000 civil servant posts

Minister denies bid to axe 90,000 civil servants is return to austerity

Animal import checks delay slammed

Angela Rayner told Lorraine Kelly a "cutural shift" in society was needed following sexist claims made against her in the Mail on Sunday (Photo: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock).

Questioning women's place in Scottish politics

Refugees fleeing Ukraine may struggle to find sanctuary in the UK because of Home Office red tape and delays (Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian refugees' struggles to get visas are sign of UK's broken government

Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brexit Opportunities Minister

Readers' letters: Rees-Mogg is wrong on flexible working

The Covid pandemic saw many people start working from home and there's no great rush to return to the office (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

Working from home versus the office: Hybrid approach is the way forward

Jacob Rees-Mogg defended the Prime Minister as the first fines were announced

Boris Johnson given 'wrong information' about partygate, Jacob Rees-Mogg claims

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

It's a scandal, but has some of the sting gone from partygate?

The Scotsman Top Stories

Kinloch Castle, the Grade A Listed Building on the Isle of Rum, which the Scottish Government has been unable to sell and lies in a state of slow decay. PIC: NatureScot.

Castle at the heart of island's future as millionaire speaks out on failed sale

Capital Theatres has released a flythrough digital animation giving an artist’s impression of the redevelopment of the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh

Succession star Brian Cox voices video flythrough of King's Theatre revamp

Charities say more affordable homes need to be built to help manage Scotland's housing crisis.

Over 300,000 people on social housing waiting lists in Scotland

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