Politics

Matt Hancock has insisted the government “worked as hard as we could to protect care homes” following scathing criticism from Dominic Cummings. The health...

Matt Hancock is launching a personal fightback after Dominic Cummings’ sensational claims that he should have been sacked for telling lies about COVID. After...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock should have been “sacked for lying”, Boris Johnson treated COVID-19 like a “scare story” and many ministers were “literally skiing”...

Former Conservative chair Baroness Warsi says a report into Tory Islamophobia shows the party is “institutionally racist” – despite the findings saying otherwise. She...

An MP has had the Conservative whip removed after a complaints panel found that he broke Parliament’s sexual misconduct policy. Rob Roberts made repeated...

Anti-Muslim sentiment “remains a problem” within the Conservative Party, an independent report has found. Professor Swaran Singh, a former equality and human rights commissioner,...

Campaigners in favour of legalising assisted dying have welcomed a cross-party attempt to change the law due to begin this week. A private member’s...

The sister of murdered MP Jo Cox is to be Labour’s candidate in the Batley and Spen by-election, a poll that could determine whether...

The UK’s border will become “fully digital” so the government is able to measure immigration levels, the home secretary will announce on Monday. Priti...

The director-general of the BBC has written to staff saying lessons must be learnt following the damning report into the circumstances surrounding the Panorama...

A cabinet minister has told Sky News it would make “sense” for many people to carry on wearing masks even after lockdown rules are...

The Met Police says it will assess the contents of the inquiry into the BBC’s Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana to ensure there...

The prime minister has declared that the world “must never be caught unawares” by another pandemic, as he backed a new global surveillance network...

Downing Street has said there was a short delay in England’s test-and-trace system asking some people who tested positive to provide details of individuals...

People who return from countries on the government’s travel amber list should expect a “knock on the door”, the home secretary has warned. Priti...

Boris Johnson is being warned by scientists that a surge in vaccinations in COVID hotspots may not be enough to halt the spread of...

Dominic Cummings is threatening to exert revenge on Boris Johnson by revealing a Downing Street document on the prime minister’s COVID lockdown strategy. Unleashing...

A total of 2,323 cases of the Indian coronavirus variant have been reported in the UK, the health secretary has said. Delivering a COVID-19...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said it was “perfectly reasonable” for him to assist a former Conservative minister in winning a multi-million pound PPE...