Politics

It has been billed in some quarters as “Freedom Day”, when life will return to a form of normality after more than a year of coronavirus...

There will be a “much more permissive regime” of coronavirus measures in England – with the wearing of face masks a “personal...

The government is “considering” scrapping quarantine requirements for those who have had both vaccine doses. Downing Street said it was looking at...

Boris Johnson is “very confident” that the UK’s use of India-produced jabs won’t prevent Britons being able to travel abroad – as...

Sir Keir Starmer has declared “Labour is back” as he told his party the Batley and Spen by-election win shows what can be achieved when it...

The Conservative Party’s co-chair has admitted Matt Hancock’s COVID rule-breaking was partly to blame for their by-election loss in Batley and Spen...

Double jabs will be “a liberator” for people wanting to travel abroad this summer, Boris Johnson has said – as he announced details of the...

Conservatives in Matt Hancock’s constituency have thrown their support behind him despite calls for his resignation as an MP after he was filmed...

A deal to avoid a ban on sausages and other chilled meats moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland has been agreed at the last minute. The UK and EU have...

Ministers have rejected demands to allow more time for EU citizens to register to stay in the UK after Brexit by declaring: “Don’t delay, apply...

The government’s efforts to help school pupils catch up from lost learning during the COVID pandemic are “feeble” when compared to other...

Banning mobile phones will be considered as one of a range of measures to promote “calm classrooms”, the education secretary has announced. Gavin...

Boris Johnson has suggested he decided Matt Hancock could no longer be health secretary after admitting breaking coronavirus rules. Speaking on Monday, the...

The justice secretary says he has asked for his office to be swept for “unauthorised devices” following the recording and leaking of footage of...

Newly appointed health secretary Sajid Javid has said his immediate priority is ending the coronavirus pandemic, as it was warned he faces a “baptism of...

So this is how it ends for Matt Hancock (for now). After months of leading the country through the pandemic and being caught in his own political crises along...