Politics

Tony Blair has said that the NHS is “not serving its purpose” in an exclusive interview with Sky News. Speaking to Sophy Ridge on...

July and December are always vicious months in the calendar at Westminster. No matter when the monarch officiates at the official state opening of...

Kemi Badenoch has signed off UK membership to a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc. The business and trade secretary signed the accession protocol to the...

Defence minister Ben Wallace says he will stand down at the next election. Mr Wallace, the longest-serving Conservative defence secretary, said in an interview...

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...