Politics

The head of the CBI says the Chancellor’s tax rises caught companies off guard, and they can no longer afford to invest or hire new people.

In a shock result, Calin Georgescu is leading in the first round of the presidential election.

A far-right candidate has rocketed from nowhere to win the first round of Romania’s presidential election. Călin Georgescu’s success comes off the back of a wave of support for far-right parties across Europe.

A new documentary by the Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham sets out to document 20 years of illegal destruction to villages where Basel grew up.

Donald Trump has named his Treasury Secretary as part of a flurry of nominations to his top team.

We were joined by the lawyer and climate campaigner Meena Raman, who is the head of programmes at the Third World Network and a former chair of Friends of the Earth International.

Walkouts, accusations and acrimony – now it’s going into the early hours for the second night past the deadline without agreement, at the UN’s climate summit or COP, in Azerbaijan.

In theory, Netanyahu and Gallant cannot now step foot in Europe without fear of arrest. But Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, ever at odds with the EU, has offered Netanyahu safe passage. 

A near-record 2.8 million people in the UK are currently not in a job or looking for a job because of long-term sickness.

The government will soon set out its strategy to bring down the soaring number of people who are too sick to work.

A close ally of Boris Johnson and open critic of Rishi Sunak and Kemi Badenoch, Nadine Dorries examines the current state of the Conservative Party in this week’s episode of the Political Fourcast – and she also criticises the Church of England in the wake of the John Smyth scandal.

One of Donald Trump’s contentious picks for cabinet, Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration as Attorney General.

We spoke to Lord Mandelson, who served alongside John Prescott in Tony Blair’s government.

He was a giant of the Labour movement, famous for his working class roots, his refusal to play by any rules and for the time he once punched a protestor who lobbed an egg at him during an election trip to North Wales.

We spoke to Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Victoria Atkins.