Politics

Sir Keir Starmer was not meant to be doing an emergency news conference on the Greenland crisis in the Downing Street briefing room on Monday. The prime minister was meant to be about 200 miles away, delivering a speech much closer to voters’ concerns around household budgets and what this Labour government is doing to…

Reform UK’s legal challenge to the government’s plan to delay dozens of local council elections scheduled for May will be heard by a court next month. Nigel Farage’s party is taking legal action against the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG) over plans to allow councils to delay elections by a year due…

The government has been warned it faces an “embarrassing and potentially catastrophic” legal challenge if it approves a controversial new Chinese “mega-embassy” in the UK. An announcement is expected this week on proposals for the building at Royal Mint Court, a site near the Tower of London, and could be made as soon as today….

An emergency news conference in the Downing Street briefing room and the prime minister the gravest I’ve seen. He came to level with the public about the predicament we are in, and the consequences for us all should President Donald Trump follow through on his threat to slap tariffs on the UK and take control…

A trade war is “not the right way to resolve differences” within an alliance, Sir Keir Starmer has said.  At a Downing Street press conference to address the Greenland crisis, the prime minister appeared to rule out slapping the US with retaliatory tariffs. Politics live: What does the UK do next on Greenland? It comes…

Andrew Rosindell has become the second Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK within a week. The MP for Romford, Essex, announced on Sunday evening he had decided to resign from his position as a shadow foreign office minister in Kemi Badenoch’s frontbench and as a member of the Conservative Party. The move came after…

A leading Reform figure has told Sky News that Robert Jenrick’s defection to the party is a “really important milestone” and “makes it more likely that we win the next general election”. Until he was kicked out of the Conservative Party by leader Kemi Badenoch on Thursday, Mr Jenrick was the shadow justice secretary and…

Kemi Badenoch led hundreds of protesters in opposition to China’s proposed new mega-embassy in central London. Crowds were warned plain clothes Chinese police officers were among those gathered at the site of the former Royal Mint. It was the last chance for demonstrators to voice their concerns ahead of the government’s decision on the controversial…

It’s hardly a Love Actually moment of brave UK defiance in the face of a domineering US president- but Sir Keir Starmer has clearly decided it’s time to start pushing back. Donald Trump, he has said, is “completely wrong” to slap tariffs on the UK and other European countries “for pursuing the collective security of…

The Greens are calling for people under the age of 22 to have free bus travel in England. Party leader Zack Polanski said such a proposal could help young people shut out of work and training because of the cost of living. Those aged five to 22 have had free bus travel in Scotland since…