Politics

In the end, Kwasi Kwarteng’s statement indeed cost more than £2 billion a minute and turned politics on its head. Threads that linked the...

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has revealed the mystery note she was passed in the Commons on 8 September told her the Queen was...

People working part-time will face cuts to their benefits if they do not look for extra hours, the chancellor is set to announce. As...

Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats are part of a desperate attempt to justify his “catastrophic” failure in Ukraine, Liz Truss is to say. In her...

When Liz Truss was vying to be the Conservative Party leader and our next prime minister, some of her colleagues worried that, as the...

Joe Biden will tell Liz Truss she must work with the EU to find a negotiated outcome to the Northern Ireland Protocol row when...

Liz Truss has promised the UK will not ration energy, but warned “we cannot jeopardise our security” for the sake of keeping costs down....

Labour members will sing the national anthem at the party’s conference this weekend, for the first time in recent history. Sir Keir Starmer, the...

The government is considering introducing a fixed discount for businesses on the amount they are charged per kilowatt hour for energy as part of...

An investigation into whether Sir Keir Starmer broke COVID rules cost Durham Police over £100,000, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The Labour...

Train drivers will resume strike action next month in a long-running dispute over pay. A planned walkout by the Aslef union on 15 September...

Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney has expressed “cautious optimism” talks between the UK and Brussels to resolve the dispute over post-Brexit arrangements in Northern...

An official Chinese delegation has been barred from attending the Queen’s lying in state. House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle will prevent access...

After the death of the Queen was announced last Thursday, MPs and peers stepped away from Parliament to observe a period of mourning for...

The government will deliver a mini-budget on 23 September, Sky News understands. It is expected that details of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s plans to...

A leading trade union has written to the head of staff at King Charles’s former household calling for him to halt planned job cuts...

Members of the public are queuing for hours to see the Queen lying in state – but MPs can skip the long wait. A...

Businesses will learn next week about how the government will help them to navigate the energy crisis. A spokesman for Prime Minister Liz Truss...

An MP who travelled between London and Scotland in 2020 in breach of COVID rules has been told by a court to undertake a...