Politics

Boris Johnson has announced he is standing down as an MP with immediate effect. In a statement, the former prime minister said he has...

Political aides who worked with Boris Johnson during the partygate scandal are among those who have been nominated for honours in his resignation list....

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has announced she is standing down as an MP “with immediate effect”. The ex-culture secretary said it had been...

A Labour frontbencher has been suspended after the party received a complaint about his behaviour, Sky News understands. Shadow foreign minister Bambos Charalambous has...

Labour has called on Rishi Sunak to stop Boris Johnson from handing honours to a “carousel of cronies” following reports the list could be...

The Labour Party has watered down its flagship £28bn green prosperity plan, blaming rising interest rates and the “damage” the Conservatives have done to...

Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden have agreed a new partnership to bolster economic security in response to the growing threat of China. Brushing off...

Rishi Sunak has refused to accept the government’s failure to strike a trade deal with the US is a “broken promise”, blaming the pandemic...

Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas is stepping down at the next general election. In a letter sent to her Brighton Pavilion constituents, Ms...

Rishi Sunak will take personal responsibility if inflation in the UK has not halved by the end of the year. The prime minister was...

A two-year pilot scheme is being launched to increase access to weight loss drugs and cut NHS waiting lists – as Rishi Sunak said...

The prime minister said Russia would have hit “new lows” if it turns out that Moscow is responsible for what he described as the...

The chair of the COVID inquiry says it is up to her to decide what evidence is “relevant or potentially relevant” amid a legal...

Ian Blackford, the former leader of the SNP in Westminster, has told Sky News he will be standing down at the next election. Mr...

The chair of the COVID inquiry says it is up to her to decide what evidence is “relevant or potentially relevant” amid a legal...

Sir Keir Starmer will try to persuade trade unions to back his green energy plans after bosses publicly criticised his policy of banning new...

Paediatricians have warned youth vaping is “fast becoming an epidemic among children” as they called for the government to ban disposable vapes. Responding to...

The government is still being “too slow” to recover taxpayer money lost to fraud and error over the pandemic, MPs have said. The cross-party...

Conservative MP Bob Stewart has been charged with public order offences relating to a “racially aggravated” incident in December last year. Police say the...