Britain has said it will summon the French ambassador after a Scottish boat was detained off the French coast, in the escalating row over post-Brexit fishing rights.
The Government has announced a new ‘legal duty’ will be imposed on water companies to reduce raw sewage being discharged into English rivers.
The former Labour MP Frank Field has told fellow peers that he is terminally ill, and said he had changed his mind and now supported a new law to allow assisted dying. A statement was read out on his behalf at the second reading of the bill in the House of Lords which urged colleagues…
Less than a week since Sir David Amess’ death, Labour have accused the government of failing to make good on their promise to get the Online Safety Bill through its first stage in parliament by the end of the year.
One MP says face to face meetings should be paused right now.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has asked all police forces to review security arrangements for MPs “with immediate effect”.
An MP has been found guilty of harassment following a trial in London.
But a new study by the think tank, More in Common, has found those ideals are being undermined in practice.
Can the Conservative Party still say it is the party of business? In his speech today, the prime minister promised to tackle the “long-term structural problems of the British economy” and create one with higher wages and higher skills. But just outside the conference hall in and around Manchester, how do small business owners feel…
With the country’s biggest police force beset by concerns about its policies and culture, the government is setting up an inquiry into “systemic failings” at the Met in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder.
Boris Johnson has pledged to make the UK’s energy production completely green by 2035, as part of the effort to reach net zero carbon emissions.
The prime minister insisted the government “will stop at nothing to make sure we get more rapists behind bars”.
No matter how Keir Starmer’s speech went down in Brighton, it’s the verdict of the voters that counts. And none more so than those in seats which have historically been Labour strongholds, but have now started to vote Conservative.
Services across its network will now be run by the government instead, while more options are being considered, including financial penalties.
Winter is coming and for many people it’s going to be tough. Energy prices are soaring, so too is the cost of food, with inflation set to rise to its highest level for eight years.