Nigel Farage is “on the side” of predators like Jimmy Savile with his criticism of the Online Safety Act, the technology secretary has suggested.  Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science, ...

Rachel Reeves has accused her predecessor as chancellor of “lying” about the state of the public finances.

Following this week’s riots in Southport, Aldershot, London and Hartlepool, in the wake of the tragic murders of three young girls in Southport, the prime minister has this afternoon launched a new ...

The Bank of England has this lunchtime reduced interest rates for the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic, dropping its core base rate by 0.25% from 5.25% to 5.0%. Interest rates had ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. What next for Suella Braverman after her failed leadership bid?

The boss of a leading economic think tank has said that the budget “black hole” is equivalent to the Conservatives' pre-election tax cuts.

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Rachel Reeves has condemned the Conservatives to an electoral ‘black hole’ ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Taking down illegal content online would not have been enough to stop the riots ...

Ersin Tatar is the leader of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. On a recent diplomatic visit to London, he sat down for an exclusive conversation with Politics.co.uk. Ahead of visits from ...

Reform UK has been challenged to rule out recruiting Liz Truss to its ranks, after her one-time party chairman, Sir Jake Berry, became the latest former Conservative MP to defect from the Tories. The ...

A former Conservative cabinet minister has announced he has left the party to join Reform UK. Jones, who was the MP for Clwyd West from 2005 until standing down in 2024, said he had quit the Tories ...

Silica dust exposure limit should be reduced to “prevent hundreds of deaths” from silicosis – TUC Doctors writing in Thorax, the journal of the British Thoracic Society, warn of a future ‘epidemic’ ...