Politics

The health secretary has said “biological sex matters” after the NHS removed a reference to women in its information about ovarian cancer. On the...

Boris Johnson has sought to draw a line under a bruising confidence vote by urging Cabinet ministers to focus on tax cutting and levelling...

The prime minister’s anti-corruption tsar has resigned over Boris Johnson’s response to the Sue Gray report into partygate – and will vote for him...

Boris Johnson needed 180 of his 359 MPs to vote for him in order to stay on as party leader and prime minister. He...

His supporters say he got Brexit done and saved the country by making the vaccine rollout happen before any other developed nation. His opponents...

Boris Johnson will make the NHS a key feature of a series of expected policy announcements in the coming days, as the PM bids...

A government consultation that could mean greater use of imperial measurements will be launched on Friday. In 2000, the EU weights and measures directive...

Boris Johnson has said he was “very, very surprised” to receive a fine for attending a lockdown-breaking gathering in Downing Street. The prime minister,...

Syrian and Afghan refugees are believed to be on the list of people set to be deported to Rwanda in a fortnight, charities have...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s own ethics adviser has asked him to explain why he believes he has not broken the ministerial code after being...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner have both received questionnaires from Durham Constabulary in relation to a potential breach of...

A cross-party group of MPs has told the logistics industry to “get its house in order”, calling for better overnight facilities for drivers and...

Another Conservative MP has submitted a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson, making him the 28th Tory to publicly call for him to...

The trickle of MPs publicly calling for Boris Johnson to resign is now a modest stream and gathering pace. And the dangerous thing is,...

The former cabinet minister Dame Andrea Leadsom has blamed Boris Johnson for “unacceptable failings of leadership” over the partygate scandal. The former business secretary...

One of the youngest MPs in the Conservative Party has become the 26th Tory to publicly call for Boris Johnson to resign over the...

A minister has said it is “not immediately obvious” an investigation is needed into allegations that Carrie Johnson held a lockdown party that was...

Boris Johnson is facing twin allegations of a partygate cover-up, with opposition leaders accusing him of “behaving like a tinpot despot”. The Liberal Democrats...

Boris Johnson is poised to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a post-Brexit pledge to bring back pounds and ounces in Britain’s shops. Whitehall...