Business minister Kwasi Kwarteng has told Sky News comments by Andrew Sabisky were "reprehensible and racist" and he believes the former Downing Street adviser "jumped before he was pushed" adding that "vetting will be more severe" for jobs at Number 10

The Government is publishing plans for a points-based immigration system to come into force in January next year

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed the budget will still take place on 11 March

Caroline Flack's family have released an unpublished Instagram post which she wrote before she died where she said: "within 24 hours my whole world and future was swept from under my feet and all the walls that I had taken so long to build around me, collapsed"

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Prince Harry and Meghan will no longer have an office at Buckingham Palace from April 1st and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be represented through their UK charity

The Fire Brigades Union has criticised the “shambles” of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s flooding response saying he should be “ashamed” of government’s failure to plan for floods in the long-term

Police in Australia have confirmed that two people have died in an incident involving a train derailment in Victoria