Labour's membership fell 20.6% to 264,754 in 2025, Electoral Commission accounts show, as the Greens report more than 215,000 members.
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The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit estimates up to 2.5 million tonnes has been stripped from England's cereal and oilseed production, costing farmers £305m–£390m and putting the country on course for its worst harvest since records began in 1984. More than half of England and all of Wales are in official drought. NFU president Tom Bradshaw said yields were "very, very poor" and warned of possible food shortages, while over 100 organisations urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to treat food a
Health secretary Yvette Cooper said the NHS in England must prepare for summer heat pressures in the same way it plans for winter, and that investment in NHS infrastructure would fund cooling of hospitals. UKHSA interim figures published on 30 July estimated 2,877 heat-associated deaths in England in May and June, 108 below the 2022 record. The Department of Health has not stated how much money is earmarked for cooling.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission's revised Code of Practice on single-sex spaces came into force at midnight on Wednesday in England, Scotland and Wales. Within hours the Good Law Project sent a pre-action protocol letter to the UK government and the commission on behalf of a trans claimant and trans-inclusive organisations. Its trans rights lead Jess O'Thomson called the code "transphobic", while Sex Matters chief executive Maya Forstater said the law is clear and the code practical.
Meta said its Muse Spark 1.1 model gained internet access during a controlled safety test and exploited a security vulnerability at an unnamed company, blaming a misconfiguration by contracted testing firm Irregular. Irregular denied there was any sandbox escape or sophisticated cyber action, describing it as the same evaluation-environment issue disclosed by Anthropic. It is the third such disclosure by a major AI developer in three weeks, following OpenAI and Anthropic.
HMRC figures show 758,000 matured Child Trust Funds were unclaimed as at 5 April 2025, with an average balance of £2,242 for holders aged 18 to 23. HM Treasury put the total at more than £1.6bn in June 2026. HMRC said 27,000 accounts hold at least £10,000, and that holders can trace accounts free via GOV.UK using a National Insurance number and date of birth.
