Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “control freakery” and conducting a “macho virility test” after he suspended seven left-wing MPs for voting to scrap the...

The long-term sick must be required to look for jobs to deal with unsustainable welfare costs and reduce the country’s “toxic” reliance on immigration, a...

Rachel Reeves has warned cabinet ministers that she faces “difficult decisions” on tax rises and public spending before her first budget as chancellor. Reeves...

James Cleverly, the former home secretary, has announced he is running to become the next Conservative Party leader. The former foreign secretary, who is the...

Woah woah woah, what’s all this? This isn’t how it’s supposed to work. For Britain’s curious band of mid-morning Brexit masochists, things had taken an...

A Labour councillor nicknamed “high-carbon” for flying 40,000 air miles in little more than two years has been appointed Sadiq Khan’s environment chief. Mete...

Passengers could be urged to avoid travelling by train under government plans to avert overcrowding on a key rail line following the launch of HS2. The...

Sir Keir Starmer has opened the door to the eventual scrapping of the two-child benefit cap as he acknowledged anger in his party over maintaining the policy....

The Home Office will use the first flight that was scheduled to deport migrants to Rwanda on Wednesday to return failed asylum seekers to Vietnam, The Times...

People will be able to prove their identity for everything from paying tax to opening a bank account using a government-backed “digital ID”, ministers have...