Humanists are celebrating a partial victory after the Department for Education announced it will keep restrictions on faith-based admissions criteria in new state-funded free schools in England – the ...

Keir Starmer is starting the week with a full-frontal assault on the party he considers to be his gravest threat and on the ...

A Labour MP has said he is being investigated by the Labour Party over “unacceptable and deeply disappointing” comments made in a WhatsApp group. Oliver Ryan, the MP for Burnley, said he was a member ...

When will reality dawn and the panic begin? The polls conducted since the general election last July, when Rishi Sunak limped ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Boris Johnson will go down as “one of the most damaging prime ministers in this country’s history”, the Reform UK chair has ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. In its pre-election manifesto, Labour promised ‘to create a world free from poverty on a liveable planet’. Now the party is in ...

A minister has said that an elections bill could come in the next parliamentary session, which will begin in spring. Lucy Powell, the leader of the House of Commons, said she “strongly supports” votes ...

A Foreign Office minister has said the UK would “oppose” Donald Trump’s proposal for Palestinians to leave Gaza. Anneliese Dodds told MPs on Thursday morning: “We would oppose any effort to move ...

The UK’s largest shooting organisation has labelled the government’s justification for an increase in firearms licensing fees as bogus and warned that inefficient licensing puts guns in the hands of ...