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Dominic Raab has resigned as the UK’s deputy prime minister and as justice secretary after an official report into bullying allegations found he had acted in an “intimidating” manner towards civil servants. The investigation by Adam Tolley KC, a leading employment barrister, said Raab had on a number of occasions “gone further” than appropriate in delivering critical feedback and been insulting about work done by Ministry of Justice officials. Tolley believed that while Raab did not intend to upset or humiliate officials, they found him “unreasonably difficult to deal with”, as he was sometimes “abrasive” – and while he had…

History repeated itself: if the first leg was tragedy, the second was farce. Together, they ended Manchester United’s hopes of a European title. There were nine minutes left on a wild, noisy night in Seville when David de Gea, a long way from his line, stumbled and fell, leaving the ball at the feet of Youssef En-Nesyri and the goal and their fate at his mercy. From 30 yards the Moroccan rolled it in to finish this quarter-final, scoring the third here, Sevilla’s fifth over two legs. Manchester United had scored two of those for them in the first leg and…

Forecourt owners in the UK are adding to soaring inflation for consumers by charging many businesses that rely on diesel more than necessary at the pumps, campaigners have claimed. The pump price for diesel is about 10% higher than for petrol, even though the wholesale market price is lower, reigniting concerns that forecourt owners are profiteering at the expense of diesel drivers. The RAC estimates that on average forecourt owners are making double the profit from diesel users, which are often vans and trucks serving retail businesses, compared with the margins from sales of petrol. Steve Gooding, the director of…

Michael Schumacher’s family are planning legal action against a German weekly magazine over an “interview” with the seven times Formula One champion that was generated by artificial intelligence. A spokesperson for the Schumacher family, asked by Reuters for a comment on Wednesday, pointed to published reports of legal action. The Ferrari great has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps in December 2013. The latest edition of Die Aktuelle ran a front cover with a picture of a smiling Schumacher and the headline promising…

The independent report into bullying claims made against Dominic Raab will be handed to Rishi Sunak today, The Telegraph understands. It will then be up to Mr Sunak to make a decision on the Deputy Prime Minister’s future. The Prime Minister is expected by Whitehall insiders to make a swift call once the conclusions are known. Mr Raab, who also serves as Justice Secretary, has always denied the claims made against him and has publicly committed to resign if he is found by the inquiry to have bullied junior staff members.

The United States has for the first time paid people who were injured by COVID-19 vaccines. Three people received compensation for their injuries through the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), run by an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, officials said in a new update. One person who suffered severe allergic shock received $2,019, according to the agency, the Health Resources and Services Administration. One person who suffered heart inflammation, or myocarditis, received $1,582. Another who suffered myocarditis received $1,032. The manufacturer of the vaccines was not made public. Information about the people who received the payments has also not been…

Ministers have been warned by a former head of the judiciary that plans to let the UK ignore rulings from the European court of human rights (ECHR) on small boat crossings could be defeated in the House of Lords. John Thomas, who was lord chief justice of England and Wales from 2013 to 2017, said the move would probably amount to a “symbolic breach of the rule of law”. He criticised the government for caving in to a group of hard-right Tory MPs who had threatened to launch a rebellion next week during the final parliamentary stages of the illegal migration bill. About 30…

For Manchester City to sail so serenely past the six-times European champions shows how far Pep Guardiola has already taken them. The big question now is can they go all the way and finally seal the glory of a first Champions League triumph. Next up is a semi-final with the holders Real Madrid who knocked City out at the same stage last year and can draw on the pedigree of a record 14 victories in the competition. Guardiola would never be presumptive but for the neutral what now roves into view is the prospect of his gilded team needing to win a…

Opposition parties have called on Downing Street to provide answers over Rishi Sunak’s family financial interests as the Guardian discovered that previous ministerial registers made no mention of his wife’s stake in a childcare firm, even though it began in 2019. The prime minister could be ordered to apologise to the House of Commons if an inquiry announced on Monday into his declarations about the investment finds he breached the code of conduct for MPs. Companies House records show Akshata Murty first took a stake in Koru Kids, one of six childcare companies that stand to benefit from a policy announcement in…

Traders have ramped up bets on further Bank of England interest-rate rises peaking at 5pc later this year after inflation unexpectedly remained in double digits. The consumer prices index measure of inflation fell slightly to 10.1pc in March from 10.4pc in February. However, analysts had expected a drop to 9.8pc, with the unexpectedly higher reading sending the pound 0.3pc higher against the dollar. The yield on two-year Government gilts, which are most sensitive to interest rate expectations, have risen 10 basis points to 3.76pc.