It is not always easy to guess what lasting effects a prime minister will have. With Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement that he ...

I see even national treasures aren’t safe from the petulant, punitive tantrums of the irritant left. Witness the travails ...

Who – at least among those of a Conservative mind — didn’t feel a pang of pleasure at the news that Sadiq Khan has been ...

Swinney vowed to ‘rewire the Scottish state to ensure services fit around people, rather than expecting them to fit around a ...

Marine Le Pen has promised to ban women wearing Muslim headscarves if she becomes president next year. The leader ...

There was a cautious cheer for Andy Burnham as he stood up for his first PMQs. MPs were perhaps cautious of a repeat of the ...

At Prime Minister’s questions today, Andy Burnham was pressed by Kemi Badenoch on the sharp rise in government borrowing ...

Andy Burnham had a reasonable first outing at Prime Minister’s Questions today. He didn’t flounder, but he didn’t make ...

What happened yesterday will only hand BBC critics several hand grenades to lob at it ...

Gordon Brown spent much of his political career arguing passionately that Scotland should remain within the United Kingdom ...

Once governments begin to see household deposits as a policy tool rather than a private asset, the line becomes dangerously ...

The Green party’s resident tit-whisperer, Zack Polanski – formerly Dave Paulden – looks set to take on Labour in ...