RAF jets shot down “a number of” Iranian drones, Rishi sunak said as he warned the fallout would have been “hard to overstate” if missiles launched in Tehran’s unprecedented attack on Israel were not largely intercepted. The prime minister ...

Prime minister says UK was involved to save lives in Israel and neighbouring countries

Tory minister Victoria Atkins has said the “circle of knowledge” on the conflict in the Middle East has to be “very, very tight”, as G7 leaders hold urgent talks after Iran launched an unprecedented attack on Israel. Rishi sunak i ...

Ms Atkins was unable to say whether the government had found a carrier for the flights

Concerns that vicious circle of party ill-discipline is undermining the PM’s ability to restore order

A sleeping Rishi sunak is beset by monsters of privatised water, bankrupt councils, local elections and more

Stories have emerged of a foul mood in Downing Street; it was ever thus behind the scenes in a dying administration

Following Rishi sunak’s decision to cancel the leg, taxpayer has spent £1.4m on properties for a line that is no longer being built

Former home secretary will rub shoulders with populist right from across the globe, including Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán

Moves comes just a day after George Osborne said the foreign secretary was acting like a prime minister on the world stage

It is another blow to Rishi sunak

David Blunkett and Alan Johnson join Iain Duncan Smith in dismay at DWP’s treatment of benefit recipients’ minor mistakes

Former managing director and chief executive to appear at inquiry continues to hear evidence on IT scandal

 

Labour’s Wes Streeting accused the government of prioritising tax dodgers over doctors as he hit out at Rishi sunak for “failed” NHS waiting list promises. The shadow health secretary said the healthcare system is facing “the worst crisis in ...

The Tories are under increasing pressure to rethink a policy over ‘nuisance’ behaviour from homeless people

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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: � ...