Politics

A veteran Labour MP and the long-standing mayor of London are among a handful of politicians named in the King’s New Year Honours list....

Labour would lose its majority and nearly 200 seats if a general election was held today, a new mega poll suggests. While Sir Keir...

British voters are in for a relatively untroubled 2025, after the “Year of Elections” which saw a new government in the UK and major...

Sir Keir Starmer has paid tribute to his brother Nick, who died on Boxing Day aged 60 after suffering from cancer. The prime minister...

Children with special educational needs are being “segregated” and left to struggle in the wrong schools because councils are trying to “save on costs”,...

Many months before farmers found themselves on the front pages of newspapers, after protesting in Whitehall against the new government’s inheritance tax rules, we...

Reform UK now has more members than the Conservative Party and is “the real opposition” according to Nigel Farage, while Kemi Badenoch has called...

Nigel Farage has said he is willing to help incoming US ambassador Lord Mandelson negotiate with Donald Trump’s administration. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer...

Sir Keir Starmer has said he will be “looking towards a better, brighter future” in his first Christmas message as prime minister. It comes...

No wonder Sir Keir Starmer is going abroad “for a few days” over New Year. The economic news here in the UK is unrelentingly...

Sir Keir Starmer is to head abroad over the New Year after spending Christmas Day at Chequers in Buckinghamshire. The prime minister is enjoying...

The UK economy is “headed for the worst of all worlds” as businesses expect activity to fall at the start of next year, according...

Donald Trump’s second stint as president will be like a “24/7 bar-room brawl”, according to the UK’s former ambassador to Washington. Lord Darroch was...

Labour are on track for their worst end to the year in opinion polls since the Second World War. Sir Keir Starmer‘s party is...

The co-manager for Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign has called Lord Mandelson an “absolute moron” – as the peer was officially announced as the...

Sir Keir Starmer has nominated his former top adviser Sue Gray for a life peerage. Ms Gray, whose report into the partygate scandal contributed...

Sir Keir Starmer is to make his most controversial senior appointment yet by naming Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US. Lord Mandelson,...

Labour’s anti-corruption minister has been named in court documents detailing claims her family embezzled billions of pounds from a nuclear power project in Bangladesh....

Sir Keir Starmer has said “it will take some time” before living standards improve in the UK as he faced a grilling from senior...