First Minister John Swinney said growing tensions in the region would be ‘worrying’ for Indian and Pakistani communities in Scotland.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are set to meet their Chinese counterparts this weekend in Switzerland.

The Government has been accused of “running scared of rather nasty right-wingers” over plans to block new sentencing guidelines. New guidance from the independent Sentencing Council would have ...