The admission came in a legal statement by Keir Starmer's Government to the High Court, amid a challenge to the UK's arms and F-35 exports to Israel
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Hundreds of millions were wasted on contracts with zombie companies which vanished before any taxpayers' cash could be recovered
Senior politicians, military leaders and experts send an open letter calling on Europe and Canada to join forces in defending Ukraine from Russian aggression
The spectre of Boris Johnson's assault on standards in public life is slowly retreating, argues Josiah Mortimer
In his monthly column, John Mitchinson explores how a country house party in Oxfordshire helped invent democracy
Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government's inheritance tax reforms
European leaders fear Donald Trump could soon open Europe's doors to Moscow
The UK Government is dominated by figures from a discredited past at a time of radical global change, argues Neal Lawson
Any law to help people die is the beginning of a slippery slope for disabled people whose lives are already devalued, writes Penny Pepper in her monthly column
'I don’t fully understand why so many people would faint from horror at the thought of hearing a dog screaming in agony but have no real issue with the idea of a human doing that'