Politics

The race for Number 10 begins in earnest today following Rishi Sunak’s decision to call a snap summer general election in a high stakes...

This general election campaign is set to be an epochal, history-making election whichever way it goes. If Starmer wins an outright majority, it will...

Rishi Sunak will call a general election for 4 July, Sky News understands. The surprise move comes after days of rumours the prime minister...

The live poll tracker from Sky News collates the results of opinion surveys carried out by all the main polling organisations – and allows...

Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s Westminster leader, took his opportunity at PMQs to ask the question which seems to be on everyone’s lips in Westminster...

An MP who had both his hands and feet amputated after contracting sepsis has been welcomed back to the House of Commons with a...

There has been a sharp fall in the number of overseas health and care workers applying for visas in the first few months of...

People infected with deadly viruses due to the tainted blood scandal could receive more than £2m in compensation, according to government documents. “Illustrative figures”...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has bowed to pressure from some of his senior cabinet colleagues over proposed changes to the graduate visa scheme. Reports...

Victims of the infected blood scandal will get £210,000 as an interim compensation payment from as early as this summer, the government has announced....

Victims of the infected blood scandal have called for former health secretary Ken Clarke to be stripped of his peerage. Lord Clarke was heavily...

The government will outline how it plans to compensate the victims and families of the infected blood scandal when it makes a statement in...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has offered a “wholehearted and unequivocal” apology to the victims of the infected blood scandal, saying it was a “day...

After decades of denial, gaslighting and a chilling cover-up of the plight that befell thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal, finally an...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologised to the victims of the infected blood scandal, saying it was a “day of shame for the British...

The defence secretary has said he is “angry inside” over the infected blood scandal ahead of a long-waited report into the decades-long injustice. Grant...

Billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe has told Sky News that Britain is ready for a change of government after scolding the Conservatives over their handling...

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has said he won’t be standing at the next general election but will keep campaigning for the Conservative Party....

A Tory peer has resigned the government whip after he was found to have bullied and harassed two people while drunk. Lord Kulveer Ranger,...