Politics

Ex-Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry has defected to Reform, in the latest blow to the Conservatives. The former MP for Rossendale and Darwen, who...

Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have agreed the need for a “new deterrent” to deter small boats crossings in the Channel, Downing Street...

Sir Keir Starmer’s watered down welfare bill has passed its final stage in the Commons, after another concession was made to MPs. The Universal...

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out a wealth tax or say if he would extend a freeze on income tax and national...

The idea of a wealth tax has raised its head – yet again – as the government attempts to balance its books. Downing Street...

The Chinese owner of British Steel has held fresh talks with government officials in a bid to break the impasse over ministers’ determination not...

👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈  After yesterday’s royal welcome from the King, French President Emmanuel Macron will get...

Emmanuel Macron has said the UK and France have a “shared responsibility” to tackle the “burden” of illegal migration, as he urged co-operation between...

Emmanuel Macron addressing parliament in the Palace of Westminster’s Royal Gallery was a highly anticipated moment in the long history of our two nations....

Norman Tebbit, the former Tory minister who served in Margaret Thatcher’s government, has died at the age of 94. Lord Tebbit died “peacefully at...

👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈        The first European state visit since Brexit starts today as President Emmanuel Macron...

The threat from Reform in Wales is “very serious”, the country’s Labour leader said as exclusive polling revealed Nigel Farage’s party is the first...

Sophisticated drones sending “overwhelming amounts” of drugs and weapons into prisons represent a threat to national security, according to an annual inspection report by...

The education secretary has said children with special needs will “always” have a legal right to additional support as she sought to quell a...

Victims of bullying and abuse at work will no longer have to “suffer in silence”, the government has said, as it pledges to ban...

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has called for a “wealth tax” to help the government’s dwindling finances. Lord Kinnock, who was leader from 1983...

An MP who decided until recently to “never speak” about the abuse he suffered as a child has shared his harrowing story so that...

In common with many parents across the country, here’s a conversation that I have with my young daughter on a semi-regular basis (bear with...

The UK has re-established diplomatic ties with Syria, David Lammy has said, as he made the first visit to the country by a British...