GPs will be told to stop issuing millions of “sick notes” that sign people off work and instead send them to job coaches or the gym thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

🔺NEW: Trump sends Patriots to Ukraine and threatens Putin with 100% tariffs In a dramatic rethink of White House policy, the US president has ordered Russia to resolve its war in Ukraine within 50 days or face economic consequences thetimes.com/world/russia-u…

Violence erupted during a protest outside a migrant hotel in Essex on Thursday evening after an asylum seeker appeared in court accused of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

.President Donald J. Trump: "The GENIUS Act — they named it after me." 🤣

.Howard Lutnick: "Canada is not open to us. They need to open their market. Unless they're willing to open their market, they're going to pay a tariff ... I think the President is going to open between $300-$400 billion of opportunity for Americans."

🔺 NEW: The deputy US attorney general has said he plans to meet Ghislaine Maxwell in the “coming days” to ask her whether there were any accomplices in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking scheme thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

🔺 Update: Israel has accused Sir Keir Starmer of giving a “reward” to Hamas after he announced that Britain may formally recognise a Palestinian state in September thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a fresh backlash from Labour MPs over his decision to recognise a Palestinian state after Hamas praised the move as “one of the fruits of October 7” ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Rupert Lowe mistakes charity rowers for illegal migrants The independent MP alerted the coastguard about a small boat off Great Yarmouth, which was crewed by a team of four including a former Royal Marine thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

📸PICTURED: 8,000-year-old bull looted from Ukraine is one of world’s most-wanted artefacts A tiny bone figurine, taken during the siege of Mariupol, is now on the Antiquities Coalition’s global most-wanted list — here's why ⬇️ thetimes.com/world/russia-u…

Spain wildfires: Row erupts as minister jokes ‘things getting hot’ Óscar Puente, the transport minister, made the ‘frivolous’ jibe at a political rival while 21 fires raged, claiming two lives and scorching nearly 25,000 hectares thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

Elon Musk is said to be reconsidering his plans to launch a new political party due to fear of antagonising Republican leaders thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

British citizens will be given priority over foreigners under Nigel Farage’s plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, one of Reform UK’s most senior figures has said thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

🔎 Analysis: Asylum hotel appeal is political poison Labour feels it must swallow. The government believes it has no choice but to challenge the High Court injunction in Epping, whatever voters may think ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

🔺 Update: Nestlé has dismissed its chief executive after a “romantic relationship with a direct subordinate” thetimes.com/business-money…

The Green Party’s populist new leader is not only a threat to genteel ecologists — he believes Labour is also running scared thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Israel condemns sanctions as ‘antisemitism’ after Spanish leader’s attack on actions against Palestinians in Gaza thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

Thousands of emails between the disgraced financier and his confidante show that Maxwell requested information on Giuffre, one of their accusers thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

Too many young people have got “out of the habit” of working, the work and pensions secretary has said, as he ruled out a target for welfare savings thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

The widow of Charlie Kirk said she forgave the man accused of killing her husband as President Trump led tributes to a “missionary with a noble spirit” thetimes.com/us/american-po…