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Jon Snow interviews novelist and playwright Irvine Welsh, about Donald Trump’s victory.
The Defence Secretary Phil Hammond tells the Commons there will be no change in Nato’s strategy of training Afghan police and soldiers following a spate of rogue attacks.
Former prime minister Tony Blair warns that blaming the England riots on a moral decline is wrong, and the focus should instead be placed on dysfunctional families.
Perhaps nowhere reveals the depths of the Conservative defeat so much as Oxfordshire – where the Tories lost all four of their seats – including two that have been held by former Prime Ministers.
There’s just one full day of campaigning left now and Rishi Sunak insists the outcome of the election is not a foregone conclusion.
France’s far-right National Rally made big gains in the first round of the parliamentary election, but what is the likely impact of that for us here in the UK?
Who is being wooed this election and who is being ditched? Young people? Diane Abbott? Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Labour’s Meg Hillier, Tory peer Jo Johnson and Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper.
The rap artist best known for the Streets made his name in the early 2000s, taking on the garage scene and making it relatable to swathes of Britain’s disaffected young people.
We spoke to General David Petraeus who, after an army career including the command of the combined ISAF force in Afghanistan, served as the director of the CIA under President Obama.
Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has given his keynote speech at the party’s annual conference today, pledging to smash down the Tory’s blue wall.
Former Labour leader, now an independent MP, Jeremy Corbyn and the Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, who is chair of the Commons defence select committee, joined Matt Frei to discuss the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan. MF: Jeremy Corbyn, you were never in favour of this military intervention, are you relieved that it is now over? JC:…
Gary Gibbon
Labour is walking a difficult line, showing some ankle to the armies of disaffected Remainers who backed them in the snap election while honouring the referendum result and the Labour-supporting Brexiteers beyond London who, some MPs say, are already badgering them with emails asking what the party is playing at.
The headline is that we will be pulling out of the EU’s Single Market and will not remain a full member of the Customs Union either.
Quite simply the radical progressive sentiment that’s swept Greece, Spain, Scotland and the British Labour movement has now hit America.
In the west, Tunisia is seen as a model of democratic transition since its Arab Spring uprising. But it is also a place where secular politicians have been murdered and tourists killed.