Politics

To her most savage critics – from Tories to the far left – she’s “Rotten Rayner”, a tax evader, freeloader and a “low life… on the make”. To her trade union friends, she’s a victim of misogyny who right-wing politicians are attempting to hound out because she’s working class. And after her tearful interview on Sky…

Angela Rayner has admitted she did not pay the right amount of stamp duty on the purchase of her second home and has referred herself to the independent adviser on ministerial standards.  Speaking to Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the deputy prime minister became tearful as she claimed she…

Liz Truss has defended her record as prime minister and called for “institutional change” in Britain in the same way she claims Donald Trump delivered “revolution in the US”. The former Conservative leader has spoken to Sky’s Wilfred Frost on his The Master Investor Podcast nearly three years after she resigned as prime minister –…

The new leader of the Green Party has revealed he spoke to Jeremy Corbyn this week amid suggestions there could be a pact between their two parties.  Zack Polanski, who comfortably beat his rivals Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns to win the Green Party’s leadership election, told the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge that he…

The justice secretary will be given the power to veto changes to sentencing guidelines proposed by an independent body, following a “two-tier justice” row. The government has announced a new legal requirement for Sentencing Council guidelines to be agreed by the Justice Secretary before they are issued to courts in England and Wales. Politics latest:…

There are 1,210 completed homes which cannot be occupied because of delays in the work of the government’s building safety regulator, Sky News can reveal. The safety inspection regime created in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, which claimed 72 lives, is “not fit for purpose”, according to those who depend on its work. Politics…

Sir Keir Starmer has announced a shake-up of his team in Downing Street as he seeks to reset his premiership after a difficult first year in office. Darren Jones, seen as a rising star within the Labour Party, has been moved to Number 10 to oversee the day-to-day delivery of the prime minister’s priorities. He…

After a summer dominated by criticism over the small boats crisis and asylum hotels, Labour says it’s planning to overhaul the “broken” asylum system. As MPs return to Westminster today, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will speak about the government’s success in tackling people smugglers and plans for border security reform. Image: August saw the lowest…

Reform is usually happy to get into a punch-up over its policies. The mantra that “any publicity is good publicity” seemingly inked into the party playbook. That may be why they seem reasonably relaxed about recent criticism of their migration plans by the Church of England. Speaking on Tuesday, Nigel Farage delicately suggested that in…

They demolished most of the “blue wall” at the general election, and now the Lib Dems are eyeing up Labour voters. Strategists see an opportunity in younger people who, over the course of this parliament, may be priced out of cities and into commuter belt areas as they seek to get on the housing ladder…