Politics

The French government has stepped back from a threat to impose disruptive port checks on lorries and boats after the UK threatened to take...

France has backed down on immediate threats to ban British vessels from French ports as the two nations continue to feud over post-Brexit licences...

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has set a 48-hour deadline for a fishing dispute with France to be resolved before the UK moves ahead with...

“It’s one minute to midnight and we need to act now,” the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson will declare on Monday as he seeks...

COP26 President Alok Sharma has said he wants “more out of every country” and now is the time to deliver on limiting temperature rises...

This year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow is “the world’s moment of truth” in the fight to tackle global warming, Boris Johnson has...

Boris Johnson has not ruled out triggering the dispute mechanism against France as a row between the two countries over post-Brexit fishing rights escalates....

Boris Johnson on Friday warned that “team world” was “5-1” down at half-time in the fight to tackle global warming, as he implored world...

The environment minister has said “two can play at that game” after France made threats over fishing in UK waters – which he said...

Britain has begun preparations for a major clash with the EU by activating a key government committee to look at the fallout from suspending...

Rishi Sunak has said his intent as chancellor is to “lower taxes for people” and insisted that was the fairest way of coming out...

Rishi Sunak will hit the airwaves to sell his budget later, after it was warned that the chancellor’s economic set piece will leave the...

A Treasury minister has not joined the traditional pre-budget photo in Downing Street due to his agoraphobia, he has revealed. Simon Clarke, the Chief...

This is, technically speaking, Rishi Sunak’s third budget. But it might better be thought of as his first. After all, the first two of...

Millions of nurses, teachers and members of the armed forces will receive a pay rise next April as Rishi Sunak unfreezes public sector pay...

Ministers should resign for briefing out details of the budget in advance of the chancellor’s address to MPs on Wednesday, the Speaker has suggested....

The chancellor is set to increase the national living wage to £9.50 in Wednesday’s budget, Sky News has been told. It will rise from...

When Rishi Sunak stands up to deliver his budget and three-year spending review on Wednesday it will be his first real opportunity to set...

The chancellor has announced a series of spending pledges ahead of the autumn budget this week, which include £5bn for health research and innovation...