Politics

Pepper spray will now be used in young offender institutions – where the rate of assaults on staff is 14 times higher than in...

Britain will not lower its standards or water down regulation in exchange for a trade deal with the US, the chancellor has confirmed. Rachel...

Plans for strike action were set to be drawn up by the UK’s largest teaching union when its executive met on Wednesday evening, Sky...

Sky News political editor and host of the Electoral Dysfunction podcast Beth Rigby shares her London Marathon journey… I used to say I was...

Can Reform UK turn votes into seats – and from there into power? How far do the Tories have to fall? How unpopular is...

It’s no great surprise that members of a Labour MPs’ LGBT+ WhatsApp group would be raising concerns about the impact of this week’s Supreme...

Unwary travellers returning from the EU risk having their sandwiches and local delicacies, such as cheese, confiscated as they enter the UK. The luggage...

Ed Miliband has accused Nigel Farage of peddling “nonsense and lies” about the government’s commitment to net zero, as the Reform UK leader said...

Free breakfast clubs will launch at 750 schools across England next week but teachers have voiced concerns that government funding will fall short of...

“Return hubs” that would see Britain send failed asylum seekers to another country have been endorsed by the UN’s refugee agency. There have been...

It would be “foolish” to stop engaging with China, the chancellor has said, as Sir Keir Starmer held his first call with Donald Trump...

Lib Dems don’t tend to listen to right-wing podcasts. But if they did, they may be heartened by some of what they hear. Take...

The health secretary is taking inspiration from Japan in his bid to change how Britons are treated by the NHS. Wes Streeting has said...

It was perhaps not quite how officials, in London at least, had envisaged the announcement of the state visit would be made. In the...

👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 The two baronesses of the podcast finally lift the lid on...

It was perhaps not quite how officials, in London at least, had envisaged the announcement of the state visit would be made. In the...

Laws may need to be strengthened to crack down on the exploitation of child “influencers”, a senior Labour MP has warned. Chi Onwurah, chair...

The NHS must change its policy of allowing transgender people to be on single-sex wards aligned with their gender identity following the Supreme Court...

Public bodies have been told to look at how equality laws are implemented after the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman,...