Badenoch proposes welfare reform that would stop many jobless under-25s getting universal credit – UK politics live

Tories suggest ‘tough love’ approach amid issue of one million Young people not in employment, education or training The Foreign Office has announced new Russia" class="entity-link entity-topic" data-entity-id="212101" data-entity-type="topic">Sanctions against Russia. It says the 31 measures include “sanctioning LNG shadow fleet vessels, Kremlin disinformation networks and perpetrators of civilian torture and child indoctrination”. In the news release about the announcement, the Foreign Office says: Following Ukraine" class="entity-link entity-event" data-entity-id="212103" data-entity-type="event">Sham elections in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine earlier this month, the UK is now taking firm action against people and entities found to have undermined Ukraine’s territorial integrity through human rights abuses. They include eight people involved in the arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of Ukrainian civilians. These abuses are part of a wider system of repression in Russia’s occupied territories, where enforced disappearance and denial of justice have also been used against Ukrainian civilians. Continue reading...