Politics

Conservative former cabinet member Sir Alok Sharma has announced he will not stand as an MP at the next election. Sir Alok, who chaired...

Sir Ed Davey has promised to introduce a guarantee for cancer patients to begin treatment within two months if his party holds the balance...

The United Nations’ refugee agency has rebuked Home Secretary Suella Braverman after she claimed the current asylum system is no longer fit for purpose....

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called for a reform of the international asylum system, saying it is no longer fit for purpose. Speaking in...

Sir Ed Davey has promised to introduce a guarantee for cancer patients to begin treatment within two months if his party holds the balance...

Sir Ed Davey’s conference speech – his first since becoming leader in the autumn of 2020 – capped what has been a remarkable change in...

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called for a reform of the international asylum system, saying it is no longer fit for purpose. Speaking in...

Sir Ed Davey has promised to introduce a guarantee for cancer patients to begin treatment within two months if his party holds the balance...

The home secretary has suggested the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention needs updating to stop “simply being gay or a woman” being a reason...

Home Secretary Suella Braverman will question whether the foundation of modern asylum law is still relevant in a speech in the US today. Ms...

Poised to scatter morsels of red meat to the right of the Tory party, Suella Braverman will today tell a centre-right thinktank that it’s...

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are looking at how costs of HS2 “can be controlled” and no decision has been taken on whether to...

Sir Ed Davey will close this week’s Liberal Democrat conference by promising to “fix our economy with care” after the Conservatives “broke” it with...

Sir Ed Davey has hinted his party would be prepared to do a post-election deal with Labour to prevent the Conservatives from forming a...

A former transport minister who signed off HS2 has told Sky News he wants an inquiry into the chaos of the project “to make...

Twenty-four hours in A&E is now “no longer a documentary”, leading medics have warned, as figures show almost 400,000 patients spent a day or...

Scrapping the HS2 rail line to Manchester would be a “gross act of vandalism”, senior Tories have warned Rishi Sunak. Former chancellor George Osborne...