Ministers are braced for a major defeat in the House of Lords tomorrow over plans to allow Huawei to help build Britain's superfast 5G phone network. The Government has launched a major lobbying effort to talk around 20 Conservative rebels out of backing a move that would outlaw the Chinese …...Read More

Hair: Fabio Nogueira. Make-up: Ruby Hammer. Styling: Holly Elgeti. Blouse, lisou. Trousers, Roland Mouret. Jewellery, Alighieri Sitting down to watch TV the other night, I was seized with a sudden panic. The reason for this burst of anxiety was that I had briefly looked at my phone and seen that …...Read More

Schools, with their familiar landscape of corridors and classrooms, sounds of bells and chatter, and the whiff of the changing rooms, are for so much of their life a child’s world. And it is a world in which students learn from their friends, just as they do from teachers. Today, …...Read More

Shops have spent up to £75 million on signs encouraging customers to remain two metres apart – which have now been rendered redundant after the rule was relaxed. Now they face having to pay tens of millions more to replace them. Non-essential stores in England were allowed to open on …...Read More

It used to be so simple. Your friends were people you liked to hang out with. People you found interesting and had a laugh with. There were some you saw regularly and others less frequently but the key qualification for friendship was whether you enjoyed their company. Now, though, everything …...Read More

If you're looking forward to dining out next weekend for the first time in months, get your skates on – table reservations at popular venues are fast becoming hot property. A Mail on Sunday survey found many restaurants and pubs across the country are already fully booked for their grand …...Read More

Coleen Rooney's WAG pals are reportedly 'freaking out' that Rebekah Vardy may leak private information about them. Amid the upcoming 1 million court case in which Coleen, 34, accused Rebekah, 38, of leaking private information to the press, fellow footballer's spouses have now raised their own fears. The Sun reports …...Read More

There was no reason to pay particular attention to the couple sitting in a cafe opposite Birmingham’s Snow Hill station one afternoon in October 1942. They could have been lovers or just old friends. The man was slim, with round spectacles and a high forehead, the sort of person we …...Read More

A Housing Department whistleblower has cast fresh doubt on Robert Jenrick’s handling of a Tory donor’s £1 billion property development. Beleaguered Mr Jenrick last week released a cache of documents relating to the Westferry Printworks saga and admitted making mistakes. Last month, this newspaper revealed the Housing Secretary had been …...Read More

It seems controversial tycoon Richard Desmond has a track record for clumsy efforts to lobby the Tories, and Boris Johnson in particular. In 2009, the then owner of the Express newspaper group had a bee in his bonnet about the then Mayor of London’s cycle hire scheme because of plans …...Read More