Treasurer says LGBTQ+ community ‘have been heard and they will count in the 2025 census’. Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCensus to include questions on gender and sexualitySpeers finishes up by asking Chalmers about the ongoing census questions palaver.We have listened to the community. We worked...

Employees have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, according to new trade union researchWorkers across Britain have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, with more than a million people going without a single day of paid time off, according to new research.With unions gathering in Brighton this weekend for the first TUC conference under a Labour administration...

Julie Collins describes avian flu situation as ‘dynamic’ as she highlights concerns about the impact to wildlife and agricultureGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastChalmers says they’ll have more to say on aged care reforms “quite soon”. He says they want to provide “better services for more people in a more sustainable way without...

US secretary of state will be most senior US official to have travelled to London since Labour’s election victoryThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will head to London next week to discuss the Middle East and Ukraine, the state department announced on Saturday, in advance of a US visit by prime minister Keir Starmer.Blinken’s visit to London...

Bates and Suzanne Sercombe invited to Necker Island after publicly soliciting a holiday from Virgin tycoonThe Post Office campaigner Alan Bates has married his partner, Suzanne Sercombe, on Richard Branson’s Necker Island in a ceremony officiated by the Virgin tycoon.The wedding took place last month on the entrepreneur’s private island in the British...

The system by Saturday had been dousing Texas and Louisiana with heavy rains for daysA tropical depression may form next week in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center.In a forecast on Saturday afternoon, the NHC said that an area of low pressure had formed over the Bay of Campeche in the southern area of the Gulf of Mexico....