The fragile ceasefire has given rise to cautious hope for longer-term peace even as Tehran insisted it will not give up its nuclear programme.

One free go at a driving test might encourage learners ‘to only go for it when they really thought that they were going to pass it’, MPs heard.

Mali Smith, 66, said she has not heard from the Foreign Office since registering for the repatriation flights last week.

The 19-year-old was killed when his motorbike crashed into a car driven by American national Anne Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton in 2019.

Major housebuilders cannot be relied upon to achieve the Government’s target of building 1.5 million new homes, a housing expert has said, as he criticised a “failed monopoly” in the sector.