Politics

Voters across much of England will head to the ballot box for local and mayoral elections on 4 May. It will be the first...

Conservative MPs defending slim majorities have accused colleagues of “gaming the system” to try and move to safer seats and maximise their chances of...

International Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch has said palm oil is “a great product” after the new UK-Indo-Pacific trade deal was criticised for aiding the...

The UK has been accepted into an Indo-Pacific trade bloc in what the government says is its biggest trade deal since Brexit. The Comprehensive...

Labour’s governing body has voted to block Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election. Mr Corbyn is already...

Sir Keir Starmer says he is “prepared to be ruthless” to ensure Labour wins the next election, including when it comes to his predecessor...

Politicians are often criticised for empty rhetoric, but Sir Keir Starmer was right when he told activists in Swindon on Thursday, “these [local] elections...

The UK is set to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership – known as CPTPP – in what the government says...

Sir Keir Starmer says he is “prepared to be ruthless” to ensure Labour wins the next election, including when it comes to his predecessor...

Politicians are often criticised for empty rhetoric, but Sir Keir Starmer was right when he told activists in Swindon on Thursday, “these [local] elections...

Labour’s top second jobs earner David Lammy has conceded if MPs are banned from having outside earnings “I will have to live with that”....

An MP who travelled by train with COVID in the early stages of the pandemic is facing a 30-day suspension from the House of...

Sir Keir Starmer will promise “lower taxes for working people”, as he launches Labour’s local election campaign on Thursday. Speaking in Swindon, the party...

Local Tory councils have threatened to take legal action against the government over its plans to house asylum seekers in disused military bases in...

Rishi Sunak’s wife is a shareholder in a childcare agency that will benefit from a major new policy announced in the spring budget. The...

Scotland’s new First Minister Humza Yousaf has unveiled his cabinet appointments. New Deputy First Minister Shona Robison has replaced Kate Forbes as finance secretary....

Tory MP Julian Knight has been cleared by the police after an allegation of serious sexual assault. Mr Knight, who had been the chair...

The government has announced that “thousands” of asylum seekers will be housed in four military bases, including one in the prime minister’s own constituency....

Rishi Sunak described Baroness Betty Boothroyd, the only female Speaker of the House of Commons, as “remarkable” as he joined Sir Keir Starmer at...