The general election race is closer than the polls suggest, Rishi Sunak has said in his first public appearance since the final results of the local elections. Speaking during a visit in London, the Prime Minister insisted that the result of the general election was not a “foregone conclusion” as he projected some optimism after the results. ...

A Jewish student claims he was pushed and shoved at the Cambridge student camp. Ari Vladimir, 19, a first-year history student at Christ’s College, said he arrived at a rally with an Israeli flag and was swiftly pushed away by a fellow member of the crowd on Monday afternoon. “I came into the protest and unfurled my flag and almost immediately...

John Swinney has become the new SNP leader after the party confirmed he was the only candidate for the role. The party grandee, who had an unhappy previous stint as leader which ended 20 years ago, is expected to be voted in as Scotland’s seventh first minister at Holyrood on Tuesday. The SNP confirmed on Monday that Mr Swinney was the only...

Oxford and Cambridge students have begun occupying lawns with pro-Palestinian camps in an echo of protests that have swept the US. Tents sprang up outside the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum on Monday morning, which the organisers claimed was “a disturbing hoard of artefacts stolen from colonised peoples across the world”. On the...

French bakers cooked the world's longest baguette on Sunday (May 5) at 140.53 meters (461 ft), reclaiming a record for one of the nation's best-known emblems taken by Italy for five years. The baguette, about 235 times longer than the traditional one, was made in Suresnes in the suburbs of Paris during an event for the French confederation of bakers...