Politics

The Labour Party has suspended 11 of its councillors over their membership of a WhatsApp group that led to a minister being sacked from...

Has Sir Keir Starmer picked a fight with a bat tunnel that – in time – he will eventually discover he just can’t win?...

Even after half a century, she’s still adored and revered by Tories, grudgingly respected by present and former Labour prime ministers and yet despised...

Assisted dying cases would not need to be signed off by a High Court judge, the MP behind a new bill has proposed. Labour...

Has Sir Keir Starmer picked a fight with a bat tunnel that – in time – he will eventually discover he just can’t win?...

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has a ruthless streak when it comes to suspending MPs who’ve brought the party into disrepute or failed to...

Kemi Badenoch has notched up 100 days as Conservative party leader. To say she’s celebrating this century would be wrong, though. Marking it, perhaps....

The fightback starts here. Labour is starting the working week with an onslaught on Nigel Farage’s party on the issue that Reform UK voters...

More than 600 immigration arrests were made last month, as authorities carried out more than 800 raids, the Home Office has said. The Labour...

A Labour MP has said he “deeply regrets” comments he made on a WhatsApp group – a day after health minister Andrew Gwynne was...

Margaret Thatcher died on 8 April 2013. But the UK’s longest-serving post-war prime minister still casts a long shadow over politics today, more than...

Health minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked over comments posted on a WhatsApp group. Mr Gwynne reportedly made antisemitic comments and ‘joked’ about a...

Keir Starmer was touring the UK National Nuclear Laboratory in Preston when the Bank of England halved its 2025 growth forecast, cut interest rates...

Grenfell Tower will be demolished, Angela Rayner has confirmed. The demolition is expected to take “around two years” and be carried out “sensitively”, the...

The Labour MPs who have set up a pressure group to counter the threat of Reform UK have been warned they risked promoting factionalism....

The Conservative Party is pledging to tighten immigration rules after Reform topped a landmark poll for the first time earlier this week. In her...

Grenfell campaigners say they have been told by the deputy prime minister that the tower block will be demolished, accusing her of “ignoring the...

Is history repeating itself in the row over Sir Keir Starmer’s voice coach Leonie Mellinger? After all, she is not the first person who...

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s anti-terror case should have been kept open, a review into his attacks has found. Following the killings in Southport last...