Politics

Police chiefs have promised to acknowledge mistakes and not “defend the indefensible” as they set out long-awaited reforms in the wake of a report...

Thousands of ambulance and Environment Agency workers in England will strike in February. The Unison union said ambulance workers across five services in London,...

The UK has fallen down the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) to its lowest ever score as a report warned “slipping standards are being...

Britain’s economic reputation has been dealt a further blow after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast that this year the UK economy will fare...

Labour will push the government for an increase to the number of neighbourhood police officers on Tuesday, saying communities are facing 3,000 incidents of...

Support for trade unions is rising even though strike action is bringing public services to a standstill , Sky News polling shows. Industrial relations...

Rishi Sunak has said he acted “decisively” in sacking Nadhim Zahawi as chairman of the Conservative Party yesterday following a row over his tax...

Rishi Sunak has been urged by Labour to “come clean” over what he knew about Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs after the PM sacked the...

The verdict is in and the decision delivered. Nadhim Zahawi did commit “a very serious breach of the ministerial code” and the prime minister...

The government has pledged thousands more hospital beds and 800 new ambulances as part of a plan to “fix” emergency care as the NHS...

Boris Johnson has claimed Vladimir Putin threatened to kill him with a missile in a call ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The former...

Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked as Tory party chairman after paying a penalty to resolve a multimillion-pound tax dispute while he was chancellor. In...

He is a former child refugee who sold Teletubbies merchandise, founded the UK’s best known polling company and was a contender to be leader...

The government is partially to blame for the Grenfell Tower tragedy because of “faulty and ambiguous” government guidance, Michael Gove has said. The housing...

A proportion of Conservative members feel “disconnected” from the party as they were “denied a vote” when Rishi Sunak became prime minister, a former...

Those worried about the health of British politics have diagnosed a new disease at Westminster. Chris Patten, a grandee from the Conservative establishment, spotted...

A proportion of Conservative members feel “disconnected” from the party as they were “denied a vote” when Rishi Sunak became prime minister, a former...

The chancellor has confirmed HS2 will end at Euston after reports the high speed line could stop before reaching central London. Jeremy Hunt said...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has dismissed economic “gloom” in a major speech today as he promised to use “Brexit freedoms” to increase growth and productivity...