Rachel Reeves’ mortgage gamble is the move of a chancellor who is running out of options - NEWS ANALYSIS: Plans to get more people on the housing ladder should be applauded, writes David Maddox, but t ...

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy has been calling for Jonathan Powell to appear before it since his appointment in November.

The U.S. President was once branded a danger to the world by the U.K. ambassador to Washington who now calls him a truthful ...

Remainer Peter Mandelson has admitted the UK's trade deal with the US was only possible because of Brexit. Lord Mandelson is ...

How Angela Rayner has become the most influential figure in Starmer’s government – for now - NEWS ANALYSIS: The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox says that despite the clash with Unite, the ...

I went to a graduation ceremony this week. It was a nice moment. Celebrating years of hard study and - one hopes - the start of working life. But there were two bum notes, one minor, the other major.

Sir Keir Starmer was hoping to break the curse of the cabinet away day as he summoned his ministers to Chequers for the ...

Britain’s migrant return deal with France is “robust” against legal challenge and the EU is expected to approve the scheme, Downing Street has said, after the French President suggested it needed to ...

Keir Starmer's "one in, one out" plan to end the small boats crisis has been branded a failure by the officials employed to ...

Some of the 126 rebels privately regret signing the amendment to the welfare legislation which forced ministers' humiliating retreat, given the damage to Keir Starmer and his government."We only ...

The behind-the-scenes negotiations between Monsieur Macron and Sir Keir Starmer about the proposed one-in, one-out migrant ...