Leader of the opposition is regarded by many as the worst job in British politics. Peter Hennessy called the post ‘a transit ...

Britain used to lead the world on international development. But in the era of right-wing populists, its Labour government is ...

THAT great patriot and visionary author George Orwell once wrote, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful ...

As the government is criticised for promoting footage of raids on illegal workers, Sean O’Grady looks at the bigger issues behind its apparent change of tone ...

Members of Parliament from across the Labour Party are pushing the government to introduce a new digital identification ...

Keir Starmer is starting the week with a full-frontal assault on the party he considers to be his gravest threat and on the ...

Nigel Farage may be the biggest problem for Reform UK making a political breakthrough and winning the next election, a poll ...

US foreign aid funded legal advice for transgender asylum seekers in Britain, as well as a raft of diversity initiatives in ...

The Cad, despite claiming to be mortified and deeply upset by the failure of his marriage, has taken the precaution of putting a detective on his wife. Appalling people are often surprisingly charming ...

This is Keir Starmer’s worst week in politics since last week. With the Chagos deal eliciting criticism in cabinet, the PM is ...

All political careers may end in failure, but the UK’s new ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, isn’t done yet ...

The story making headlines in the British press this week is that during the Covid lockdown, while Boris Johnson's staffers were holding booze-fuelled parties and vomiting in the corridors of Downing ...