Politics

Ian Blackford has announced he is stepping down from his role as Westminster leader of the SNP. “After more than five years in the...

Union leaders could coordinate industrial action across the NHS this winter to cause “maximum impact”, the head of the GMB has suggested. Andy Prendergast,...

China’s military advances could “eventually lead to a clash” and the UK has been “asleep” to the threat it poses for the last 30...

The ancient Romans considered Chester as strategically important as London.?This week, it is arguably just as central to Labour and the Conservatives.  People in...

Ukraine’s first lady has urged the UK to lead the way in the creation of a special international tribunal to prosecute Russia for aggression...

Aboard the Lady Diana, a tourist river cruise through Chester, there is little talk of the upcoming by-election: “We don’t do politics here”, captain...

Plans to build the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk have been reconfirmed by the government along with a £700m investment. Business...

Social media sites will no longer have to take down material designated “legal but harmful” as part of the government’s proposed plans for online...

Firefighters will start voting on strike in the latest industrial dispute over below-inflation pay offers. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said the “historic ballot” comes...

Rishi Sunak has said the “golden era” between the UK and China is over as he called for a new approach to the Chinese...

The government will spend an extra £1bn to insulate the least energy-efficient homes in the UK, the business secretary has announced. Grant Shapps said...

A group of more than 50 MPs has written to PM Rishi Sunak, urging him to introduce emergency legislation which will cut small boat...

Rishi Sunak looks set for another battle with his own MPs as a growing number of rebels join Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in...

Inflation-busting pay rises are “unaffordable”, cabinet minister Mark Harper has told Sky News in the face of strikes in the public sector. The transport...

Health officials have raised concerns that some migrants have been moved from a processing centre in Kent to other parts of the country while...

A man who died after staying at the Manston migrant processing centre in Kent did have diphtheria, the Home Office has confirmed. A government...

Vladimir Putin is trying to freeze and starve Ukraine’s people into giving up this winter by attacking power and water supplies but he will...

Two more Conservative MPs have announced that they will not be standing at the next general election. Dehenna Davison, 29, a levelling up minister,...