Politics

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted pleading guilty to an offence connected with misleading the police while a parliamentary candidate in 2014, Sky News...

Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Tories of using Brexit to deliberately run an “open borders experiment” in the UK. The prime minister said...

Net migration to the UK has fallen by 20% from a record 906,000 the year before, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said....

The Home Office spent a record £5.38bn over the last year on asylum – more than a third higher than the previous year. Figures...

The Scottish government has announced that all pensioners in Scotland will receive a winter heating payment in 2025/26. The devolved benefit, if passed, is...

Net migration to the UK has fallen by 20% from a record 906,000 the year before, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The...

Warning: this article contains references to suicide. The case for: I want a good death under the oak tree in my garden Clare Turner,...

It’s the most controversial battle over a private members’ bill in parliament for nearly 60 years. Not since David Steel’s 1967 Abortion Act has...

David Cameron has become the first former prime minister to come out in support of the assisted dying bill. The former Tory leader has...

The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is unlikely to last in the long term, according to a former British spy chief. Sir Richard Dearlove...

“Just the man I want to talk to!” We are out in Dover with Mike Tapp, the first elected Labour MP here for 20...

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to repeat a promise made by the chancellor that the government will not raise any more borrowing or taxes....

The new inheritance tax policy could affect up to five times more farms than the Treasury initially said, according to new analysis. The government...

A landmark bill to ban the younger generation from ever smoking has cleared its first hurdle in the House of Commons. The legislation, backed...

Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin says his party has made “a policy decision” not to enter coalition government with Sinn Fein after Ireland’s general...

Council services such as leisure centres and waste collection could suffer due to the cost of social care if the government goes ahead with...

This is politics but not as we know it. Up and down the country public meetings are being held where attendees speak candidly, listen...

Post Office scandal victims will wait until the end of 2024 for compensation scheme improvements or the matter will “move back to courts”, Sky...

Jobcentre reform will be at the centre of the Labour government’s plans to “get Britain working again”. Tackling the increasing number of people out...