Politics

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has ordered his department to carry out a review of the costs of potentially changing the law to legalise assisted...

Pension “mega funds” will be created under government plans to increase infrastructure investment. Reforms could “unlock £80bn” of investment, according to Treasury plans, which...

NHS league tables revealing failing NHS trusts and cancelled pay rises or dismissal for managers who don’t turn things around are to form part...

Fines of £10,000 for social media bosses who don’t remove illegal knife adverts are being considered by the government. The proposals are part of...

Self-administering drugs to end your own life legally is more compassionate than someone else doing it, the MP proposing assisted dying legislation has said....

The UK has unveiled a punchy new climate goal to slash its emissions by 81% by 2035. The government said it is on a...

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has announced he intends to stand at the 2026 Holyrood election – but has brushed off speculation it’s a...

Booing and jeering should be banned in the House of Commons to create a more “respectful” environment, a report has suggested. Job sharing for...

The prime minister has encouraged companies to start spending money on global climate change as he heads to the COP summit in Baku, Azerbaijan....

The full details of the End Of Life Bill are now known, and MPs and peers will have time to study its contents ahead...

A six-month expected lifespan and the ability to take the fatal drugs will be requirements for someone to end their own life under proposed...

The defence secretary has insisted Donald Trump is committed to NATO and is right to push other European nations to put more funding into...

Sir Keir Starmer will attend Armistice Day commemorations in France on Monday – the first UK leader to do so since Winston Churchill in...

Britain’s annual Remembrance Sunday has a special dimension in 2024 because it was the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings this year. The speaker...

A retention crisis in the armed forces will grow unless the government exempts military families from paying VAT on private school fees, insiders have...

The war in Ukraine needs “concessions on both sides” if it is to come to an end, Nigel Farage has said. The Reform UK...

Fresh from Donald Trump’s victory party at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, it is an emboldened Nigel Farage who meets us at his latest...

Can a Labour prime minister get on well with a Republican US president? Or a Conservative PM with a Democrat in the White House?...

The war in Ukraine needs “concessions on both sides” if it is to come to an end, Nigel Farage has said. The Reform UK...