European finance ministers agreed on Thursday to bring forward to next year customs duties on low-value parcels arriving in the bloc to crack down on cheap Chinese e-commerce imports, in a move set to hit Chinese online retailers Shein and Temu.

Friends of the PM told news outlets they were suspicious of Wes Streeting's leadership ambitions - but Starmer says his team are united and calls briefings against ministers "unacceptable".

Good morning. A scoop to start: Brussels has called for an EU-wide handling fee on small packages ordered online from platforms such as Shein, Temu and Alibaba to be imposed from early 2026, more than two years earlier than planned, in a drive to crack down on cheap Chinese imports.

Group of Seven foreign ministers will meet in Canada on Tuesday, with Ukraine and the Middle East set to be high on the agenda as U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to broker peace face headwinds.

The head of the courts service in England and Wales has apologised for failing to tell ministers and judges sooner about an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost.

What was meant to be an information session about a new project in Fredericton to house homeless people quickly turned into the grilling of two ministers over what many perceived as a lack of consultation.

As Russia’s renewed attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure cause rolling blackouts ahead of winter, a major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving the state-owned nuclear power company has put top officials under scrutiny.