Angela Rayner has accused the Conservative party of attempting to ‘smear’ her and insisted that controversy over her tax affairs is ‘manufactured’

Exclusive: MP for Enfield Southgate also has whip restored as internal process does not uphold complaint about his conduct

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Miliband, Labour's shadow energy secretary, told MyLondon that he 'won't advocate' for ULEZ schemes in other UK cities but local leaders can make their own decisions

It is another blow to Rishi Sunak

She had to go her own way to get her 90s indie-infused drum’n’bass bangers heard. Now, after opening for Beyoncé, the performer is about to release her first album, a ‘quintessentially British record’

Cross-party committee urges creation of strategy engage with new platforms that appeal to young

party figures say decision to tack to right on issues such as immigration could also diminish predicted landslide

Nick Fletcher criticised for calling Tory defector and Reform party’s only MP ‘Ashfield’s greatest champion’

Listen as Victoria Atkins clashes with Nick Robinson over NHS spending during an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday 11 April. The health secretary was challenged on the Conservative party’s promise of “unfunded tax ...

Boris Johnson has hit out at Rishi Sunak’s smoking policy, branding his plan to phase out the sale of tobacco products ‘nuts’. Speaking at a gathering of conservatives in Ottawa on Thursday (11 April), the former prime minister said: à ...

Liberal Democrats call on Rishi Sunak to ‘find his backbone and kick Nick Fletcher out of the Conservative party’

‘I’m mortified that through ignorance I did not realise the reason for his inactivity,’ says party chief

The royal family was a bone of contention, but not party politics, education, or mansplaining

Former PM laments state of Tory party saying it is ‘mad’ that party of Winston Churchill is ‘banning cigars’

Some analysts expect a lame-duck president for rest of five-year term after opposition Democratic party forecast to take 170 seats in 300-seat legislature

Editorial: Among the party’s experts on tax avoidance is a former City lawyer who wrote that ‘taxation is legalised extortion’

Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon speaking loudly and often after party win over Coalition Avenir Québec

party hopes to take mayoralty from Tories but incumbent Ben Houchen is still popular with voters, defying national mood

As the party struggles to talk about abortion, response marks fastest and strongest rebuke of bans since the fall of Roe

Rishi Sunak has defended the UK’s decision not to suspend arms sales to Israel. Mr Sunak has been under mounting pressure, including from within his own party, to immediately suspend the sale of arms amid a growing chorus of opposition to the numbe ...