Politics

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,...

Rishi Sunak is mulling a crackdown on foreign students bringing dependents and studying “low-quality” degrees after net migration reached its highest level since the...

Dominic Raab has insisted he has “behaved professionally at all times” despite facing growing allegations of bullying and intimidating behaviour. Yesterday, a number of...

Jeremy Hunt has said he regrets the turbulence caused by Liz Truss’s mini-budget but he does not believe it inflicted long-term economic damage. The...

Transport Secretary Mark Harper has said “there is a deal to be done” with the rail unions to bring planned industrial action to an...

Government departments have been told to stop installing cameras made by Chinese firms in “sensitive sites”. The Government Security Group has said that since...

The government is “simply not in a position to pay inflation pay rises”, the transport secretary has told Sky News before a meeting with...

Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to find another way “for Scottish people to express their will” after judges ruled that another independence referendum cannot be...

The Scottish Parliament does not have the power to call a second independence referendum in the country, the Supreme Court has said. The unanimous...