British Politics

Everyone wants to regulate lobbying – even the lobbyists. Why won’t Labour do it?

The end of no fault evictions is music to the ears

Stockport County’s Andy Mangan was set to move to Real Madrid. But then Brexit intervened

The magazine has been taken over by the same man who runs GB News. Andrew Neil has already gone – will the editor cling on?

The slow march towards crushing defeat goes on

Starmer has a new tune and he’s not afraid to sing it, over and over again…

Our deepest political divide is between those who recall the dangers of nationalism and those who see it as a vehicle for self-promotion

The next leader will be unlikely to take the Tories into the next election

At the Grand-Synthe camp on the French coast, people are risking everything to reach England. And it’s not for the benefits system

His life’s work has been a catastrophe – and now Hannan’s latest Brexit argument will be music to Putin’s ears

If Labour does bring in a smoking ban in beer gardens, how many non-smokers will start using them again?

In 2023, we visited the Barniers at home. I would never have predicted that a year later he’d become Macron’s prime minister

The delusional europhobes want to set up a museum of Brexit. Here are a few ideas to get them going

Starmer’s decision to cut heating benefits for pensioners is woeful politics, and Labour MPs are in despair

Labour has inherited a jails crisis. Its short-term decision to release prisoners will be unpopular. The long-term answer might be even more so

The favourite to become the next Tory leader, once a vociferous Leaver, now seems loathe to mention it

Jonathan Reynolds’ reaction to business and trade questions mark an important turning point

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Tom Tugendhat, Jonathan Gullis, Mel Stride and more

There were difficult questions today for the prime minister, even if Keir Starmer kept forgetting who that was

The Grenfell inquiry report is damning and heartbreaking

… And that’s why he almost certainly has no chance as the Conservatives start voting

The Republican presidential nominee has claimed to have divine protection – but there is a violent threat behind his ‘God whistles’

Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union

How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher

Replacing unfair, outdated levies with taxes based on land value would benefit 77% of us and help the country level up

Predictably, the right wing paper has gone back on its promise to stop obsessing about immigration

Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them

During a recent book event with school children in Glasgow, the issue didn't register highly on their radar

If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting

Many of us are hoping the prime minister's policy doesn't stray from pragmatic to heavy-handed

With so many plates spinning, John Swinney must now hope they don’t all come crashing down