Want to properly plug the UK’s north-south divide? Look to Germany

Boosting spending power, increasing public funding for science and tech skills, R&D and infrastructure could work

Pressure grows for Covid inquiry to be fast-tracked after Hancock WhatsApp leak

Labour calls for prime minister to ensure that no key evidence, including social media data, is erased

Information commissioner’s warning comes after leak of messages sent by Matt Hancock during Covid pandemic

PM had held talks with firm’s owner SoftBank in effort to make London first choice for tech flotations

Drugs traffickers changing methods to recruit children as young as seven, parliamentary education committee hears

All-party group says there is extensive evidence that consuming pornography fuels sexual violence

Chris Smalls, who set up the retailer’s first union in New York, came to Coventry to back its workers in their pay dispute

From fresh produce to medicines and computer chips, a cocktail of problems is playing havoc with supply chains

PM under pressure to follow EU and US in taking step over fears Chinese-owned app poses cybersecurity risk

Boss of messaging app says users’ trust at risk from powers in online safety bill to impose monitoring

Interest groups have poured about £250,000 into all-party parliamentary groups in past five years

AI experts say state needs to help create British version or risk national security and declining competitiveness

British peers propose amendment to online safety bill requiring social media sites to consider how to keep female users safe

SNP MP for Glasgow South says he is victim of ‘sophisticated and targeted spear phishing’ attack