Politics

Prime Minister Liz Truss has held her first cabinet with her newly assembled top team this morning – before going head-to-head with Sir Keir...

Liz Truss has begun appointing her cabinet after being officially asked by the Queen to form a new government. Shortly after making her first...

“That’s it, folks,” Boris Johnson said, flanked by dozens of his MPs and staff, as he and his wife Carrie left Downing Street for...

Priti Patel is to resign as home secretary when Liz Truss takes office as prime minister. Writing a letter to Boris Johnson on Monday...

On a prime minister’s first day in office, they are taken into a top secret meeting and asked to make a plan in case...

Later today, either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will be crowned victor of the Conservative leadership contest and the country’s next prime minister. It...

The home secretary has spelled out to the new Scotland Yard commissioner the vast improvements she is demanding in his force’s culture and performance....

Thousands of beds in shelters and new supported living accommodation in England will be provided as part of a strategy to end rough sleeping....

Voting in the Conservative leadership contest has ended, with the party’s next leader to be announced on Monday. After a long and bitter summer...

Whether it is Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak who becomes Conservative leader on Monday, they will be the third in six years to become...

The prime minister’s official jet was used for a “boozy jolly” by civil servants, according to a report. Sky News understands a number of...

Boris Johnson has given his support to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, promising £700m of government funding for the project. He...

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has told Sky News that nobody should be cut off this winter because they can’t pay their energy bills. In an...

The Queen will receive the new prime minister at her Balmoral estate in Scotland for the first time in her long reign. Her Majesty...

After Tory MPs sprinted through five rounds of voting for a new party leader in just a week, the battle for the votes of...

The government’s target to bring gigabit broadband to “every home and business across the UK” by 2025 seems to have been scaled back to...

Liz Truss has cancelled a scheduled interview on the BBC with just a week to go before the next Conservative Party leader is announced....

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi will travel to the United States this week to meet top bankers and US government officials to try and seek joint...

People relying on the state pension could be left with less than £11 a day to live on from next April because of the...