Home Secretary James Cleverly has made a personal apology for a date rape joke and admitted it “potentially distracted” from the government’s...
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Almost £90,000 worth of champagne was bought for events and at the gift shop in the House of Lords last year. A total of 1,589 bottles were bought over the...
Rishi Sunak himself declared that 2024 will be an election year – at the least discreet location possible: a Christmas party for political journalists...
The government is claiming victory in clearing the backlog of asylum claims – but that has been described as “misleading” as thousands are...
When he is forced to pick his Labour heroes, Sir Keir Starmer reluctantly measures himself against Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson and Sir Tony Blair. That is...
Kwasi Kwarteng, Therese Coffey and the rest of Liz Truss’s cabinet have missed out on getting gongs or places in the House of Lords as part of her...
Dominic Cummings has claimed Rishi Sunak sought to strike a “secret deal” with him to help the Tories win the next election. The prime minister...
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has attacked critics of Liz Truss’ honours list, calling them “po-faced puritans”. The former prime minister was allowed...
UK political leaders have delivered their New Year messages as they prepare for the battle ahead at the ballot box. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak struck a...
Tony Blair’s government considered setting up a holding camp on the Isle of Mull to drive down the number of asylum seekers entering the UK, according to...
A Conservative MP has claimed that most children who struggle in his town are the “products of crap parents”. James Daly, the Tory MP for Bury...
MPs are calling for a specific law to punish people who enter football stadiums without tickets. The House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport (CMS)...
Households are facing a “debt timebomb” next year, according to analysis from a trade unions group. The Trades Union Congress – which...
Two of Westminster’s best-connected journalists, Sky News’s Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard, guide us through their predictions of...
With the start of a new year, the 2024 general election campaign will officially get under way. The time for festive frivolity and fun is over. Rishi Sunak...
How to sum up a year like 2023? Perhaps the best thing to say is that it was considerably less exciting – as far as the economics went – than 2022...
