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 ...

The criticism of David Cameron among Tory MPs shows how far the party has moved from its long-held Arabist tradition, writes the Spectator’s political editor, Katy Balls

A cross-party committee has urged the Government to do more to protect the incomes of people working in the creative sector.

The UK foreign secretary’s Trump dinner appeared to fail to bring support for Ukraine, and his Washington meetings don’t look any more promising

President tells Spanish-language network that ‘this is not your father’s Republican party ... this is a different breed of cat’

Editorial: Research proving that early intervention works ought to be seized on by Keir Starmer’s party

He appeared to suggest a rape victim was a sex worker in a post on X

Watch the moment protesters spray red paint over Labour’s headquarters in central London on Monday (8 April). Demonstrators from the Youth Demand group insisted both the government and opposition should commit to preventing the supply of weapons to ...

Campaigners say party is trying to ‘weaponise’ climate crisis with claim scrapping targets could fund NHS