Politics

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...

Keir Starmer’s arrival at COP29, with a promise to drastically cut the UK’s carbon emissions by 81%, will be a small ray of sunshine in an...

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 of the...

This week in Azerbaijan, we saw Keir Starmer honing the art of delivering different messages to different audiences.  An essential survival skill in politics...

A man has been arrested after reports of a person carrying knives outside the Houses of Parliament, police have said. Police were called to the scene just...

Sue Gray has rejected a new job offer from Sir Keir Starmer after she quit as his chief of staff just weeks into his premiership, Sky News understands.  The...

Sir Keir Starmer has distanced himself from comments by a former Tony Blair adviser who said Britain “doesn’t need small farmers”. The prime...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 Reform...

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 short answer is yes...

Sir Keir Starmer needs to “suck it up” and invite Donald Trump on a state visit after winning the US election, Labour peer Harriet Harman has said...