Labour is in a “good place now” on welfare reform, a Cabinet minister has insisted after the Government agreed to water down its plans for benefits cuts amid the prospect of a major rebellion.

Except, perhaps, the scale. It is more than before. There are no National Front skinhead demos. But polling from Merlin ...

Sarah Vine, the ex-wife of former Tory cabinet minister Michael Gove, has laid into the dilapidated state of Number 10 Downing Street. She claims it has a "rather strange and slightly uneasy" energy ...

Downing Street said security is being reviewed across the defence estate and that the Government is working closely with police.

After the capital was hit by a wave of riots in 2011, Johnson sparked a “massive row” with the government, reflects Tory peer ...

No sooner had the Chagos deal been struck than attention turned to the Falklands. Would Keir Starmer support the Islands as ...

Starmer never promised miracles – that’s the sort of thing Boris Johnson did. But things are improving slowly but surely.

Rachel Reeves has pledged not to raise the main rates of tax – but Dan Neidle argues that does not mean she cannot reform the ...

England players were booed off during their drab 1-0 victory over Andorra, but they were not the only ones to feel the wrath ...

Speaking in the House of Commons, Warinder Juss pressed for an ‘independent, judge-led public inquiry, to get to the bottom of what happened’.

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The Thatcherite dream finally died this month. Margaret Thatcher’s 11 years in office had a long afterlife, perhaps longer ...