David Lammy chose to make his first major policy speech as foreign secretary in the lush surroundings of a glasshouse at Kew Gardens. He recalled how his...
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Sir Ed Davey has pledged to be a champion for carers – as he put his party forward as the “responsible opposition”. In a personal and...
Plans to introduce gender quotas in the Welsh parliament have been scrapped. It was originally intended to introduce the quotas for the next Senedd elections...
Sir Keir Starmer has said he was “angry” to learn that offenders were being greeted with champagne outside of prison gates after being released...
Amazon has told its office workers they may no longer work from home except in extenuating circumstances. It comes as Jonathan Reynolds, the UK’s...
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has an annual get-together in September for the good, the bad and the ugly of world diplomacy. Global leaders, both...
Italy’s migration deal with Albania will be on the agenda as the prime minister meets his counterpart in Rome on Monday, after appointing a former police...
A record number of GP appointments will have four-week waits this year, new data shows. There were 10.3 million waits of four weeks or more for a GP...
The foreign secretary insists the prime minister is “seeking to comply with the rules” and an investigation into a Labour donor buying clothes for...
Sir Ed Davey has said the NHS “cannot withstand” Labour reforms without more funding. The Liberal Democrat leader, speaking from the party’s...
The early prisoner release scheme is not Labour’s fault, the foreign secretary has said, as the Tories accused the government of making “rookie...
The foreign secretary has said the UK and allies will not be “bullied by Putin’s shameless grandstanding” as the prime minister faces...
Sir Keir Starmer has talked up the US-UK relationship after a White House meeting with Joe Biden, but questions remain over Ukraine’s use of long-range...
There has been no impact assessment of how the decision to strip millions of pensioners of winter fuel payments will affect them, Keir Starmer has said. The...
Labour’s biggest union backer has accused the government of being “cruel” over cuts to the winter fuel payment, as it opens a potential rift...
Baroness Harman has urged the prime minister to stick to his manifesto pledge to kick peers out of the House of Lords when they turn 80. During the general...
