Keir Starmer has promised that 75 per cent of five-year-olds in England will be “ready to learn” when they start school. Just 68 per cent of children are currently deemed to have reached the standard ...

The US has threatened to retaliate against any international levy imposed on ships for their carbon emissions amid crunch talks to agree such a measure this week.

US President Donald Trump had signed an executive order last week ending a loophole that allowed Chinese goods under the “de minimis” threshold of $800 to arrive duty-free. Instead, there would be a ...