British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party won a surprise victory in a fiercely fought by-election for the Scottish parliament on Friday after one of the most bitter election campaigns in the country's recent history.

The UK's statistics agency says April's inflation figure was too high after it was given incorrect road tax data.

Britain’s statistics agency said it overstated the official inflation rate due to a mistake in numbers it was given on vehicle taxes, the latest in a string of errors to plague the country’s economic data.

UK inflation was overstated by 0.1 percentage points in April owing to an error in tax figures provided by a government department, the Office for National Statistics said on Thursday, in the latest blow to confidence in the quality of economic data.

Zia Yusuf resigned as chairman of Reform UK after 11 months in the job, delivering a blow to its leader, Nigel Farage, who has promised to build and professionalize the insurgent party in a quest for power at the next general election.

Zia Yusuf has resigned as the chairman of Reform UK, posting on X: "I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time". What does that mean for Nigel Farage and the future of his party?