Politics

Senior Conservatives are said to be discussing abolishing inheritance tax – at an annual cost of £7billion to the Treasury – in a bid...

Ben Wallace – the longest-serving Conservative defence secretary – is considering leaving government in an anticipated autumn reshuffle, Sky News understands. It follows a...

Two local councils have won their bid to try and block new asylum centres from opening in their areas. The Home Office announced plans...

MPs should “focus on serving their constituency” rather than on second jobs, Rishi Sunak’s official spokesperson has said, in reaction to reports from Sky...

Junior doctors are “not exceptional in having inflation pressures” on their wages and should take the government’s proposed pay rise “seriously”, a minister has...

Angus MacNeil’s SNP membership has been suspended amid a probe into the MP’s decision not to rejoin the party’s Westminster group. The Western Isles...

Thousands of children with special educational needs or disabilities are missing out on the education they are entitled to because of huge delays in...

MPs with second jobs have an average wage of £233 per hour, Sky News can reveal. The typical rate for MPs is 17 times...

A breakthrough may have been made in attempts to unlock Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone. An ally of the former prime minister has suggested...

The government has put the UK in an “unconscionable” position by forcing through pay rises on the back of cuts to existing budgets, according...

The government has “no strategy” to tackle the threat from China and has left the UK “severely handicapped” due to its “short-termist approach”, according...

Unions have won a legal challenge against a law change which allowed companies to use agency staff to fill in the roles of striking...

Planning for a no-deal Brexit was “some of the best preparation” possible for the COVID pandemic, Michael Gove has argued. The veteran Tory, who...

Millions of UK public sector workers, including teachers and doctors, will get pay rises of 6% or more after Rishi Sunak decided to accept...

The government has “no strategy” to tackle the threat from China and has left the UK “severely handicapped” due to its “short-termist approach”, a...

A powerful group of northern Tory MPs are being scrutinised by the parliamentary expenses watchdog after a Sky News investigation into the way they...

Junior doctors are striking for five days from today, marking their longest period of industrial action yet. From 7am, young medics at the British...

On 20 July, Rishi Sunak could become the first prime minister since Harold Wilson in 1968 to lose three seats at by-elections on the...

Boris Johnson ally Nadine Dorries is facing a potential investigation over alleged “communications” she made to civil servants regarding her thwarted peerage. Cabinet Secretary...