Politics

The Home Office isn’t always known for its fleet-footed response to events. But the new home secretary is clearly determined to show she is...

The Conservatives are pledging to create a new “removals force” to detain and remove 150,000 a year as part of a broad plan to...

Will as many people as last year come to Tory conference? I have a leak that helps explore this – and it reveals the...

Conservative Party conferences of old were packed out events bustling with ministers, MPs, lobbyists and members. Roll on just over a year after their...

The Conservatives are pledging to create a new “removals force” to detain and remove 150,000 a year as part of a broad plan to...

The Conservative Party will leave a key human rights treaty if it wins the election, its leader Kemi Badenoch has said. Ms Badenoch announced...

The Metropolitan Police has called for a planned protest in support of the banned Palestine Action group to be delayed or cancelled after Thursday’s...

It’s a small party with big ambition, a handful of MPs led by a controversial but charismatic leader determined to turn anti-establishment sentiment into...

Baroness Michelle Mone says she will defy calls for her to step down from the House of Lords after PPE Medpro, a company founded...

Monthly disposable income fell by £40 per person between Boris Johnson’s election victory in December 2019 and Rishi Sunak’s defeat in July 2024. It...

Before and since taking power, the prime minister has set out lists of milestones, missions, targets and pledges – things he wants the country...

Extra police protection has been sent to UK synagogues after the Manchester knife attack, Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed. Greater Manchester Police said two...

Michelle Mone should resign from the House of Lords, a senior Conservative MP has told Sky News. Speaking to Sky News, shadow energy secretary...

Monthly disposable income fell by £40 per person between Boris Johnson’s election victory in December 2019 and Rishi Sunak’s defeat in July 2024. It...

As we sat down to begin our annual conference interview shortly after the prime minister had delivered his speech to party members, I asked...

Sir Keir Starmer has said he does not believe Nigel Farage or Reform voters are racist – and also refused to label Donald Trump’s...

Sir Keir Starmer has said he will take “no more lectures” from Nigel Farage, as he warned that the next four years will be...

On its own terms, this was one of Sir Keir Starmer’s most successful moments since becoming Labour leader in 2020.  Just in the nick...

So where does Sir Keir Starmer’s ferocious attack on Nigel Farage rank among the great party conference speeches by Labour leaders? One former minister...