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In Parliament it can be hard to get political chicanery past the other 649 MPs, all experts in the art themselves. On social media, where the last...
Amazon Prime is currently dominating adolescents’ screens with Beast Games, a glossy show where attention-seeking competitors bargain and tantrum,...
It’s hard to imagine the pint-swilling, fag-toting Nigel Farage as a fierce Viking invader jumping from a longship, sword in hand. But according to...
At first glance, the Government’s plan to devolve more powers to regional mayors and tidy up the messy multi-layered system of local authorities...
Fresh from upsetting farmers, businesses and pensioners, the Government looks set to add another category to its list: Labour councillors. In plans...
Rachel Reeves is busier than most, but even she shares the frustrations of punters forced to join one of the seemingly never-ending queues at the...
Serious, impassioned, thoughtful and non-tribal – party politics were put aside. Parliament has taken a step towards a monumental social change in...
Talk to MPs of all colours at Westminster and they’ll tell you that when they knock on voters’ doors, the issue of immigration always comes up. No...
Friday’s historic vote on legalising assisted dying is on a knife-edge. Backers of the bill believe they now have enough support even as their...
Unveiling a flagship back-to-work plan to tackle joblessness today, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government declined to include a crackdown on...
In Parliament’s freezing colonnades, the sideways sleet made only a feeble effort to settle. But even as MPs blew on their fingers after the sudden...
Outside Parliament Richard Angood, 72, pulled his flat cap down further over his nose to keep the freezing rain out of his eyes. The Cambridgeshire...
Since Parliament returned from its summer break in September, Sir Keir Starmer has totted up three working weeks of time spent abroad and voters...
Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s plan to revive NHS league tables is being attacked as reheated Blairism. The critics mean it as an insult; he’s...
President Joe Biden, the subject of so much criticism for his contribution to the Democrats’ wipeout, could still make a significant difference to...
For Labour MPs, Kemi Badenoch is a pantomime villain. While they’d been prepared to give geeky, inoffensive Rishi Sunak the benefit of the doubt,...
A beaming Nigel Farage raised a clenched fist as Donald Trump gave him a shout-out at a pre-election rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. “He’s always...
As the months to go until America’s polling day have turned to weeks and then days, British diplomats have spent the election period trying to map...
Even after a bruising and non-stop leadership campaign, new Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch knows the hard work is just beginning. She needs to...
Rachel Reeves, with her customary glass of red wine in hand, celebrated her first Budget alongside Treasury civil servants in a Westminster pub....
Budgets are all about choices and here were some proper old-skool, class-conscious choices. As Rachel Reeves set out her Budget blockbuster, she...
Rachel Reeves may have stuck to the letter of Labour’s manifesto pledges, but she hasn’t stuck to the spirit of them. After repeatedly promising to...
For a Prime Minister pitch-rolling a Budget that will define the UK political landscape for the next decade, Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in...
Donald Trump had built his campaign strategy around beating Joe Biden and had to pivot when he was pushed out. Here in the small corner of the UK...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s colleagues don’t envy her right now. At a meeting in Downing Street on Tuesday morning to discuss the Budget, several...
Conservative MPs gave the party membership what they wanted – a battle between two right-wing contenders. Kemi Badenoch becomes the front-runner in...
Kemi Badenoch needed a barnstorming leadership speech to pull her campaign back from the brink on the final day of the Conservative conference....
Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick is aiming for an aura of invincibility at Conservative conference. At parties and rallies, a herald comes...
Ruby, a damaged cargo ship carrying 20,000 tonnes of potentially explosive fertiliser, is currently moored off the British coast, with nobody quite...
Keir Starmer joked that the “glitter” of populism would be brushed off his shirt cuff as he sought to reset the gloomy political narrative the has...