Politics

Oonagh Keating. Updated December 22nd, 2023 Keir Starmer may be telling journalists that he’s taking nothing for granted, but he’s also clearly gearing up to become the Prime Minister. Like...

UK inflation eased back to its lowest level for more than two years last month, official figures show. Inflation stood at 3.9 per cent last month, according to the Office...

Oonagh Keating. Updated December 14th, 2023 Rishi Sunak lost control of his temper, and his face, during an exchange with a very calm Keir Starmer during Wednesday’s PMQs. Watch how...

Suella Braverman has said this morning that the government’s Rwanda bill, announced by home secretary James Cleverly yesterday, will “fail”. In an interview with BBC Radio 4 she said that while...

Politics John Plunkett. Updated November 29th, 2023 Former chancellor for a day or two Kwasi Kwarteng has been back on the BBC’s Politics Live and one of his fellow panellists...

Jeremy Hunt has this morning said it is “silly” to think about the autumn statement tax cuts as a pre-election giveaway. The chancellor, who delivered his autumn statement to the...

Poke Staff. Updated November 16th, 2023 With the Supreme Court’s judgment finding the Government’s Rwanda policy unlawful, and Rishi Sunak responding by promising to legislate the plan back on track,...

Boris Johnson has labelled the prime minister a “stooge” in an interview for Nadine Dorries’ new book The Plot, which is released today. Dorries has also suggested that the secretive...

John Plunkett. Updated November 1st, 2023 We already knew the government’s response to Covid was astonishingly wrong-headed but with the pandemic public inquiry now in full swing, we get to...

The prime minister has warned of the “new dangers and new fears” that will come with the development of Artificial Intelligence technology. It comes as the PM attempts to set...