Sir Keir Starmer has promised Dame Esther Rantzen that he will allow a vote on assisted dying in the next parliament if he wins the next election. The Labour...
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Israel has been urged by Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron to open one of its ports to allow aid arriving by sea to get through to Gaza. He also called for...
A law aimed at quashing the wrongful convictions of sub-postmasters caught up in the Horizon IT scandal is being introduced by the government later. The...
Rishi Sunak had a private meeting with the chairman of the 1922 backbench committee on Monday, Sky News can reveal. The prime minister saw Sir Graham Brady on...
Rishi Sunak has said comments a Tory donor allegedly made about MP Diane Abbott were “racist and wrong” after the police confirmed they were...
Businessman Frank Hester has been widely condemned after the emergence of comments he allegedly made about Diane Abbott. Hackney MP Ms Abbott has since...
The prime minister’s spokesperson has indicated that the country’s prisons could be full by Easter. It came as the Justice Secretary Alex Chalk...
Michelle Donelan has apologised for publicly posting a letter on social media which falsely suggested an academic had sympathy for Hamas. The science secretary...
The leader of Reform UK has hinted at further defections to his party following the high-profile move of former Conservative deputy chair Lee Anderson. The...
The UK needs to build more gas power capacity, the government has said, even while it is also trying to wean the energy system off of fossil fuels to meet...
A high-profile Tory donor has said he is “deeply sorry” following reports he said former Labour MP Diane Abbott made him “want to hate all...
Rishi Sunak will call a snap general election if 10 Conservative MPs defect to Reform UK, a top Tory with close links to Downing Street has claimed. The source...
Campaigners and families have urged members of the House of Lords to back calls for a resentencing of offenders who are serving an “inhuman”...
Three parties Lee Anderson. Labour, Conservative and now Reform. Just weeks ago he batted off suggestions he’d defect to Reform, having lost his job as...
Former prime minister Gordon Brown has drawn parallels between Sir Keir Starmer’s plans for a four-person cabinet with revolutionary communist China. Mr...
Sir Keir Starmer has opened up on his “distant” relationship with his late father, saying he wishes they had been closer. Speaking to Sky...