Keir Starmer has continued to reject calls to formally discuss the issue at the Commonwealth summit in Samoa

The prime minister has promised to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP and to put the arms industry on a ‘war footing’

It cost £165,000 for the home secretary to hire a private jet to make a flight to Kigali to sign the government’s deportation deal

The Labour leader’s manifesto may need a bit of glitter too

The Labour leader says people smuggling should be treated in the same way as terrorism

Little to cheer NHS medics in PM’s visions

A senior cabinet minister has urged health unions to take the government’s pay offer ‘seriously’, after union leaders said the proposed deal would drive doctors out of the profession and could lead to further strikes

The former prime minister has formally stepped down as an MP, pre-empting a damning verdict from the Commons privileges committee into whether he misled parliament over lockdown-breaking parties

Michael Gove’s long-delayed bill reforming aspects of private renting has been criticised as ‘too little, too late’

Fears of ‘nanny statism’ have led to a failure by every UK government of the last 30 years to tackle the obesity crisis, a report claims, as it emerged that the condition now costs the NHS £6.5bn a year

Tax bills will be on the rise from next week as the freeze on personal allowances begins but will public services improve as well?