Politics

Lisa Nandy will move from shadow foreign secretary to shadow levelling up secretary, Sky News understands, as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer continues a...

Yvette Cooper is elevated to shadow home secretary while Lisa Nandy will move from shadow foreign secretary to the levelling up brief as Labour...

Have the last few weeks seen a turning point in Boris Johnson’s premiership?  Dozens of Tories have refused to follow the prime minister’s orders...

The health secretary has said it is going to be a “great Christmas” as he defended not imposing stricter restrictions to combat the new...

The home secretary has said there will be “even worse scenes” in the Channel than the capsizing of the small dinghy that killed 27...

A government minister has defended Stanley Johnson, calling him “a gentleman” after a fellow Conservative Party MP accused the prime minister’s father of inappropriately...

There is limited evidence that Rishi Sunak’s £2bn jobs programme for young people is working, according to a new report. The National Audit Office...

France has cancelled a meeting with the UK to discuss Channel crossings after Boris Johnson asked the French to take back migrants arriving in...

The home secretary has said it was a “dreadful shock which was not a surprise” after 27 people died as they tried to cross...

The 27 people who died yesterday while attempting to cross the Channel to the UK from France included 17 men, seven women and two...

British patrols along the French coast are needed to prevent migrant boats from attempting to cross the Channel, the prime minister has told France...

Sir Keir Starmer questioned whether Boris Johnson was “okay” as he accused him of introducing a “working-class dementia tax” through this week’s reform to...

Boris Johnson may have been voted in as prime minister by the British people but he relies on the continued support of his Conservative...

Universal Credit claimants will begin to be told how changes to the benefits system will bolster their incomes ahead of Christmas – but there...

Tory criticism of Boris Johnson’s leadership is mounting after his speech about Peppa Pig World and a revolt over social care, with senior Conservative...

A requiem mass will be held at Westminster Cathedral later this morning in memory of Sir David Amess. The mass will be presided over...

Opposition politicians have ridiculed Boris Johnson after he struggled to get through a keynote address to business leaders, despite claiming afterwards he thought the...

After a bruising week for the government, with backbenchers unhappy about sleaze and watered-down rail plans, the prime minister’s authority will be tested again...

Sajid Javid has played down the need for more restrictions to be introduced in the coming weeks, telling Sky News that England is “firmly”...