Politics

Instead of funding flights of fantasy to Africa the money would have been better spent tackling the gangs behind the Channel crossings and clearing the backlog of asylum cases

The diary extract from ex-Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance comes as the PM Rishi Sunak prepares to take the stand at the Covid Inquiry next week

Conservative Party CEO Stephen Massey told an all-staff call that he was getting advice from sister parties around the world on how to bounce back after a crushing defeat

The embattled Tory leader suffered the embarrassing moment as he attempted to welcome the Dutch PM Mark Rutte to Downing Street after a day of chaos over his Rwanda plan

A court has said it was lawful for the UK Government to block Scotland from passing legislation that makes it easier for transgender people to change their legally-recognised sex

They say turkeys don't vote for Christmas but the Tories are actually stuffing themselves at this point, says Fleet Street Fox. Rishi Sunak is starting to smell as sulphurous as an overcooked sprout

The official Conservatives Twitter account posted a screenshot of a BBC journalist putting up her middle finger to the camera, with a caption attacking Labour's plans on migration

Labour accused Rishi Sunak of wasting an 'incredible' amount of money after the Home Office last night admitted the costs of the Rwanda deal had more than doubled

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the “right to strike has to be balanced with the right of the British public to be able to go about their lives without suffering completely undue disruption”

Pandemic Prime Minister Boris Johnson was repeatedly confronted by shocking - and often sweary - WhatsApps between aides and ministers in a gruelling appearance at the Covid Inquiry

Government lawyers revealed the figures at the High Court, where the claim against a PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone was having its preliminary hearing

Conservative MPs have begun submitting letters of no confidence that could trigger a vote in Rishi Sunak's leadership as he suffers biggest crisis since becoming Prime Minister

Boris Johnson endured another gruelling day of questions at the Covid Inquiry after admitting the Government underestimated the danger posed by the virus in early 2020

Robert Jenrick’s resignation as Immigration Minister is merely the latest manifestation of this relentless decline

As he appeared at the Covid Inquiry, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson complained that the characterisation of lockdown-busting gatherings in No10 had been 'absolutely absurd'

Boris Johnson fell silent during the second day of his Covid Inquiry grilling as he was forced to listen to evidence of him wanting to let the virus 'rip' in autumn 2020

An extract from Sir Patrick Vallance's diary from September 2020 appears to show Boris Johnson callously joking about soaring cases of the virus in Wales

Rishi Sunak is facing the biggest crisis of premiership as Tory MPs threaten to oust him from No10 as he struggles to contain the civil war ripping apart his party

Rishi Sunak defended the Government's 'toughest measures yet' on illegal immigration in a Downing Street press conference after one of his most loyal supporters Robert Jenrick announced his resignation over the Rwanda bill

The Prime Minister twice refused to say if he plans to send the country to the polls as he pleaded with rebellious Tory MPs to back his plan to revive the Rwanda asylum scheme

Russia's security service has compromised the private conversations of high-profile British politicians, also targeting them through 'cyber interference' in an effort to interfere with UK politics

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to appear around 11am and comes amid warnings from his own MPs that he faces 'electoral oblivion' at the next general election.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman endured a bruising encounter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme after she urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to change course on Rwanda

The readiness of naval support ships during 10 years of Tory rule has come under the microscope after parliamentary questions from Labour amid warnings about availability

Boris Johnson's appearance at the Covid Inquiry was a reminder of how ill-served the country was to have such a shambolic and incompetent person in charge during the pandemic