Politics

The London Victims’ Commissioner has called for it to be easier to appeal lenient sentences after it emerged the case of Huw Edwards cannot...

ITV’s chief executive has defended allowing Ed Balls to interview his wife, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, but said it will not happen again. Dame...

Ten years ago today the people of Scotland went to the polls to decide on the future of their country in the Scottish independence...

Sir Ed Davey has pledged to be a champion for carers – as he put his party forward as the “responsible opposition”. In a...

Sir Keir Starmer has said he was “angry” to learn that offenders were being greeted with champagne outside of prison gates after being released...

The government has diverted up to £75m from the scrapped Rwanda plan to fund the new Border Security Command ahead of an immigration “crime...

The prime minister has said the UK has moved “from a government of gimmicks to a government of pragmatism” as he attempts to tackle...

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper has revealed she was told she had four days to live but the NHS saved her. Speaking to...

The prime minister has said it is “very important… that the rules are followed” after becoming embroiled in a row about a donor paying...

Italy’s migration deal with Albania will be on the agenda as the prime minister meets his counterpart in Rome on Monday, after appointing a...

The foreign secretary insists the prime minister is “seeking to comply with the rules” and an investigation into a Labour donor buying clothes for...

The foreign secretary has said the UK and allies will not be “bullied by Putin’s shameless grandstanding” as the prime minister faces pressure to...

Sir Keir Starmer is under investigation for a possible breach of parliamentary rules after failing to declare that some of his wife’s high-end clothes...

The Liberal Democrats will call for free school meals for all children in poverty which will lead to “better academic progress”. Munira Wilson, the...

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called for a tax on the wealthiest instead of cutting support for “struggling pensioners”. Speaking after arriving...

Sir Keir Starmer has talked up the US-UK relationship after a White House meeting with Joe Biden, but questions remain over Ukraine’s use of...

Sir Keir Starmer has said that Russia started the Ukraine war and “could end the conflict straight away”. The prime minister is heading to...

The NHS will not get any more funding without reforming, Sir Keir Starmer has said as he laid out a 10-year plan to fix...

The Tories “squandered a golden inheritance” on the NHS, the health secretary has said – as he laid out three “fundamental shifts” to fix...