Politics

Anything other than a win for Labour would have been a humiliation in this contest. It wasn’t any old local by-election – this was...

Labour may announce tweaks to the two-child benefit cap so that it exempts certain families, Harriet Harman has suggested. It follows ministers, including the...

👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 As Rachel Reeves prepares for next week’s spending review, Beth explains...

Scottish Labour’s Davy Russell has won the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election. Mr Russell took top spot with 8,559 votes. The SNP placed second...

Kemi Badenoch is to launch a review into whether the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – and set out...

Nigel Farage could be the next prime minister – but Labour could beat him by connecting with voters more, Greater Manchester’s Labour mayor has...

Next week, the chancellor will unveil the first spending review since 2021. It will set Whitehall budgets for the remainder of this parliament and...

Rachel Reeves has confirmed more pensioners will be eligible for winter fuel payments this year – but confusion remains over how the threshold could...

A week today, Rachel Reeves presents the spending review; how the budget is divided between government departments between 2026 and 2029 – the bulk...

Voters in South Lanarkshire will go to the polls on Thursday to elect a new MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse. The by-election comes...

The UK will be forced to agree this month to increase defence spending to 3.5% of national income within a decade as part of...

The UK must rebuild its military and get the whole country ready for war as the threat of conflict with a nuclear power like...

A fourth man has been arrested over a series of fires at properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. The...

Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister credited with creating the welfare state. On Monday, at a shipbuilding yard in Glasgow, Sir Keir Starmer...

Sir Keir Starmer will pledge to build up to 12 attack submarines and put the military on a war footing as part of a...

Britain has “lost control” of its borders over the last five years, the defence secretary told Sky News after hundreds of migrants crossed the...

New weapons factories will be built “very soon” to show Vladimir Putin the UK is “stepping up our deterrents”, the defence secretary has told...

Nigel Farage has successfully exploited the Commons recess to “grab the mic” and “dominate” the agenda, Harriet Harman has said. Speaking on Sky News’...

The UK will buy up to 7,000 long-range missiles, rockets and drones and build at least six weapons factories in a £6bn push to...