Politics

The government is launching a drive to recruit thousands of new volunteers to serve as magistrates in England and Wales, as it seeks to...

Nigel Farage has said he is giving “serious thought” to scrapping the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) if his party wins the next general...

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of diverting £3 billion of NHS funding a year to appease Donald Trump. Daisy Cooper, the Liberal Democrat...

Rachel Reeves is “quietly hammering” workers with stealth taxes as a result of her budget last year, a think tank has said. While the...

Nigel Farage has vowed to go “double or quits” on May’s local elections with a spending blitz of £5m. The Reform UK leader has...

Children from struggling families will be able to be vaccinated at home across parts of England in a new government pilot scheme. Health visitors...

A total of 41,472 migrants arrived in the UK in 2025 after crossing the Channel on a small boat – the second-highest annual figure...

Sir Keir Starmer is promising that the change he pledged to deliver in the 2024 election will finally arrive in 2026. In his New...

Doctors in England planning to go on strike in the run-up to Christmas are considering a new offer from the government to end the...

Homelessness charities have warned that ministers are “falling short of what is desperately needed to end Britain’s homelessness crisis”. It comes as the government...

Tax changes announced in the budget could have “devastating, unintended consequences” on live music venues, including widespread closures and job losses, trade bodies have...

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has acknowledged there were “too many leaks” in the run-up to last month’s budget. The flow of budget content to...

Sir Keir Starmer has called for a tougher approach to policing Europe’s borders ahead of a meeting between leaders to discuss a potential shake-up...

Sir Keir Starmer has declared it his “moral mission” to “turn the tide on the lost decade of young kids left as collateral damage”....

Kemi Badenoch has refused to say that the Conservatives are intending to win next May’s local elections, despite being repeatedly pushed on the issue....

COVID-19 fraud and error cost the taxpayer nearly £11bn, a government watchdog has found. Pandemic support programmes such as furlough, bounce-back loans, and Eat...

The day after Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted Angela Rayner back in the cabinet, she showed Labour MPs what they’ve been missing. The...

The Sandie Peggie case has been such a high-profile story because it gets to the heart of the debate about trans rights versus women’s...

A “striking” new design for UK trains is revealed for the first time by the transport secretary. Train services already in public ownership will...