Politics

Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to apologise over a Labour social media post which claimed Rishi Sunak doesn’t think child sex abusers should...

More than 400 people crossed the English Channel in small boats in one day, despite the government’s efforts to crackdown on illegal migration. The...

Humza Yousaf has admitted the governance of the SNP “was not as it should be”. Scotland’s new first minister also said with the removal...

Rishi Sunak has said no further action will be taken against minister Mark Spencer after an investigation cleared him of breaching the rules over...

Sir Keir Starmer has claimed “Tory sleaze is back” after a Conservative MP was caught in a sting operation offering to lobby on behalf...

Nicola Sturgeon has pulled out of a climate change event due to take place on Thursday as police continue to investigate the SNP’s funding...

Nearly 200 Metropolitan Police officers and staff members who have been accused of domestic violence or sexual offences within the past 10 years may...

A Conservative MP has been caught indicating he would be willing to break parliamentary lobbying rules for money in an undercover sting operation by...

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, Peter Murrell, is understood to have been arrested in connection with an investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish...

Post-Brexit checks on goods coming to the UK from the EU are to be reduced, Sky News understands. A Cabinet Office source told Sky...

The government is considering changing the legal definition of sex to “biological” in a move that could bar trans women from female-only spaces. Equalities...

New rules must be adopted to prevent hostile states and lobbyists buying access to politics, MPs have been warned. The Commons Standards Committee has...

Labour will force fly-tippers to work in “clean-up squads” if it wins power at the next election. The party made the pledge as it...

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has said convicted criminals should be forced to attend their sentencing in court, after Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s murderer Thomas Cashman refused...

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has been disqualified from driving for six months and fined £1,639 for speeding on the M1. The offence happened on...

Funding for the social care workforce in England is to be halved – a move one charity has called “an insult” and a union...

Liz Truss told the family of a British hostage who was set to be released by Iran with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe that he was not...

A giant barge could be used to house more than 500 asylum seekers, under controversial plans to reduce the government’s reliance on hotels. The...

Nigel Lawson, chancellor to Margaret Thatcher, has died at the age of 91. He leaves behind five of his six children, including TV chef...