The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) is to disaffiliate from the Labour party, it has announced today. The union is angry with the direction of the party under Labour leader Sir Keir...

“The Ministerial Code says — and I quote — ‘ministers who knowingly mislead parliament will be expected to offer their resignation’. … I’ll leave it there, for now.” Even on 28 April 2021, when Keir...

The leading “Leave” campaigner was a prominent voice the 2016 referendum, which saw the voting public back ending EU membership by 52 per to 48 per cent.

The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he speaks to former US president Barack Obama “frequently” as he continues his diplomatic blitz.  Ahead of his meeting with French president Emmanuel...

Gordon Brown has accused the prime minister of “systematically undermining” the “whole system of international law” with his threat to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).  Writing...

Labour MP for Rhondda Sir Chris Bryant today in the House of Commons accused home secretary Suella Braverman of inciting “hatred”. He said: “Isn’t the truth of the matter, though, there is no place...

Labour MP for Rhondda Sir Chris Bryant today in the House of Commons accused home secretary Suella Braverman of inciting “hatred”. He said: “Isn’t the truth of the matter, though, there is no place...

Perhaps the most important lesson we should learn from the brutal war in Ukraine is the value of free, democratic friends in difficult places. The UK has taken a leading role in supporting our brave...

When Rishi Sunak announced his climate U-turn, he promised to square the circle between delaying climate policies and hitting climate targets. But the plan he wants to weaken is so threadbare that it...

Grant Shapps and the Conservatives are trying their hardest to portray the rail strikes as a clash between the travelling and tax-paying public and rail workers. But that’s not how it looks from...

Perhaps the most important lesson we should learn from the brutal war in Ukraine is the value of free, democratic friends in difficult places. The UK has taken a leading role in supporting our brave...

After a ruinous five years, we're starting to see some vulnerability in the nativist right.

Perhaps the most important lesson we should learn from the brutal war in Ukraine is the value of free, democratic friends in difficult places. The UK has taken a leading role in supporting our brave...

In response to the home secretary’s statement today, Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant questioned James Cleverly on the status of immigration minister Robert Jenrick. Sir Chris said: “Can you just tell us,...

The government has neglected to tackle “obscene” levels of destitution, Gordon Brown has said.  He argued Conservative ministers have “systematically shredded” the social security system over the...

In her response to the business statement today, shadow leader of the House Lucy Powell mocked Penny Mordaunt’s address to Conservative Party conference by calling on the leader to “stand up and...

Who would save Westminster if not Chris Bryant? The newly-knighted standards committee chair is on a crusade to clean up politics, seizing on sleaze and railing against those who chose to defend it. ...

Ed Miliband has said that energy firms are bringing in “unearned, unexpected profits” due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine driving up gas prices. Labour’s shadow secretary of state for climate change...

The right-wing tabloids were out, government ministers were on the airwaves; it was a parade of slack-faced hypocrisy.

Is it possible to trust that the government is approaching the lifting of restrictions sensibly, with sound judgement and public health uppermost in its mind.

Labour’s shadow chancellor has said she is “pleased” former leader Jeremy Corbyn does not hold the keys to No 10. Rachel Reeves, who did not serve in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, was quizzed by Times...

With Christmas recess looming, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clashed in the final prime minister’s questions of the year this afternoon. Welcomed back to the commons umpire’s chair this week was...

MPs are today debating the government’s Safety of Rwanda Bill at its second commons reading as prime minister Rishi Sunak seeks to diffuse a backbench rebellion over the proposals. Opening the debate...

The Liberal Democrats will today table a motion in Parliament to force the government to release the minutes of Boris Johnson’s meeting with Sue Gray. This morning Treasury minister Simon Clarke MP...

Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant today raised a point of order asking for the immigration minister Robert Jenrick to clarify the figures on the asylum backlog under the last Labour government. Sir Chris...

Grim afternoon sees Tory party fall in line behind prime minister to break international law.

No 10 have confirmed that prime minister Boris Johnson and chancellor Rishi Sunak are to be issued ‘partygate’ fines. An official spokesperson confirmed later this afternoon that the pair were fined...

The truly frightening thing was that they didn't even argue for it.

It was a simple phrase, but it spoke to something important. “In another January on New Year’s Day in 1863,” Joe Biden said in his inauguration speech, “Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation...

Another week ends with Rishi Sunak’s political standing and authority greatly diminished. The mood amongst Conservative MPs is more febrile, tenser and less certain. The narrative of the party’s...

This morning doesn’t really change anything. Labour would be kidding itself if it pretended it did. It won the Batley and Spen byelection by the tightest of margins – 13,296 votes to the Tories’...