Politics

The director-general of the BBC has written to staff saying lessons must be learnt following the damning report into the circumstances surrounding the Panorama...

A cabinet minister has told Sky News it would make “sense” for many people to carry on wearing masks even after lockdown rules are...

The Met Police says it will assess the contents of the inquiry into the BBC’s Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana to ensure there...

The prime minister has declared that the world “must never be caught unawares” by another pandemic, as he backed a new global surveillance network...

Downing Street has said there was a short delay in England’s test-and-trace system asking some people who tested positive to provide details of individuals...

People who return from countries on the government’s travel amber list should expect a “knock on the door”, the home secretary has warned. Priti...

Boris Johnson is being warned by scientists that a surge in vaccinations in COVID hotspots may not be enough to halt the spread of...

Dominic Cummings is threatening to exert revenge on Boris Johnson by revealing a Downing Street document on the prime minister’s COVID lockdown strategy. Unleashing...

A total of 2,323 cases of the Indian coronavirus variant have been reported in the UK, the health secretary has said. Delivering a COVID-19...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said it was “perfectly reasonable” for him to assist a former Conservative minister in winning a multi-million pound PPE...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has not ruled out imposing local lockdown restrictions in places worst affected by the Indian variant of coronavirus. With a...

There is a “high degree of confidence” that vaccines protect against the Indian variant of COVID-19 – but it can “spread like wildfire” among...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is trailing Boris Johnson as the British public’s preferred prime minister by 17 percentage points, according to a new...

This was a news conference that earlier in the week probably wasn’t in the prime minister’s diary. What was in his diary was a...

Veteran broadcaster and writer Trevor Phillips will take on hosting Sky News’ weekly politics show Sophy Ridge on Sunday, while Sophy goes on maternity...

A minister has told Sky News that step three of England’s lockdown easing will still go ahead on Monday, despite soaring cases of the...

Former prime minister David Cameron is set to face a long afternoon of questions from MPs over his lobbying for a now-collapsed finance firm....

The inquiry into the Iraq War cast a huge shadow over British politics. Over a year of hearings dominated the agenda. The 2.6 million-word...

People in England should no longer be advised to work from home after 21 June provided the country remains “on track” in the fight...