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Investors and business leaders are again navigating the kind of uncertainty that has dominated British politics since the Brexit vote a decade ago, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on Monday and threw open a leadership contest that will centre on any successor’s ‌plans for the economy.

Monika Silva Koniuszek died from a blow to the head and strangulation, a postmortem found, despite government claim of suicide.

Brexit-hating Steve Bray has claimed he was doing Sir Keir Starmer a favour by drowning out his resignation speech.

The first time I spoke with Rebecca Saltzburg, she told me Tulsi Gabbard was a freethinker who took orders from no one.

For the third time in a row Reform sought to stoke division and violence on Britain’s streets and have been roundly rejected by voters as a result, reports Adam Bienkov.

Having been on Reform UK’s target list as a winnable seat, Andy Burnham’s new constituency is a microcosm of Brexit Britain and the failed legacies of Thatcher and Blair.

Roy Hattersley, former deputy leader of the Labour party from 1983 to 1992, has died aged 93.

The demands of high office, the weight of responsibility of keeping the country safe, combined with a good chunk of your MPs trying to depose you from office, would understandably make it difficult to sleep at night on the best of days.

This is the terrifying moment a car burst into flames after a pair of arsonists poured petrol over the vehicle at a politician’s home.

Disgraced peer Lord Mandelson told Labour Cabinet ministers how to do their jobs, a new release of files is set to reveal.

Is the division on Britain’s political Right at risk of letting the Left in? This question, unsurprisingly, has arisen once more as all political parties attempt to navigate the unprecedentedly fragmented political landscape currently existing in Britain.

Nigel Farage is engaged in a dispute with Rupert Lowe and Elon Musk over accusations of vote-splitting that could cause Reform UK to lose the Makerfield byelection.

Brodie Mitchell, 20, a second-year politics and international relations student at Royal Holloway.

A Paris appeals court has blocked the extradition of the late dictator’s 33-year-old daughter, who was arrested last fall on charges of laundering her father’s illicit wealth.

Extra British troops and more UK air defence systems will be deployed to the Middle East for defensive action against Iranian attacks

For most of my adult life, I watched politics from the sidelines rather than actively engaging with it.

The disgraced New York financier made a career out of connections with world leaders in politics, business titans and science’s most lauded brains.

They always generate friction with their colleagues, sometimes act as lightning conductors by taking the blame for the boss’s failings, and occasionally cause the kind of power surge that blows the fuse box or threatens to set the whole system on fire.

Leaked text messages from some of Fox News’ biggest personalities reveal how many of them really felt about Donald Trump after the president lost his first bid for reelection in 2020.

For Christopher Cash, it was a job he loved. The young parliamentary researcher, then in his late twenties, was a China specialist who worked in turn for two influential backbenchers, Tom Tugendhat and Alicia Kearns.

A firm associated with former Conservative peer Michelle Mone has yet to pay the government any of the £122m required by a High Court ruling for supplying unusable personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic.

Google’s Ad Transparency tool no longer displays political online advertisements that have run on its platforms, past or present, from any countries in the European Union, making seven years of data from 27 different countries inaccessible.