rishi Sunak has said it is his ‘moral mission’ to end Britain’s sicknote culture. The Guardian’s John Harris speaks to the disability campaigner Hannah Deakin and the New Economics Foundation’s head of social policy, Tom Poll ...

World ‘now more dangerous now than at any moment since the Cold War’ says prime minister

PM has faced scepticism over costing of his commitment to spend 2.5% of Britain’s GDP on defence by 2030

The two deputies had another chance to trade blows but it was a one-sided contest, as Angela Rayner went in for the kill

The prime minister warned the world was now “more dangerous now than at any moment since the Cold War” as it faces what he has called “an axis of authoritarian states”

The prime minister has promised to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP and to put the arms industry on a ‘war footing’

rishi Sunak met with soldiers of the German armed forces and was given a tour of a military vehicle during his visit to Berlin on Wednesday 24 April. The prime minister is in Germany to discuss joint efforts on security, trade, and illegal migration ...

Reform UK's deputy leader Ben Habib appeared to suggest migrants should be left to drown in the English Channel in comments that horrified an interviewer on Tuesday, 23 April. It came after a seven-year-old girl was among five migrants who died as th ...

Prime Minister’s Questions descended into chaos on Wednesday 24 April, as a Tory MP opened the session by attacking Labour with a long-winded question. Jonathan Gullis stood to speak for 85 seconds, before asking deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden ...

Angela Rayner labelled rishi Sunak a “pint-sized loser” as she claimed Boris Johnson was the Conservative Party’s “biggest election winner” during a heated Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) exchange. The Labour deputy le ...

Watch live as German chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes rishi Sunak to Berlin before they hold a joint news conference on Wednesday 24 April.

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said it was “reasonable” to cut 72,000 civil service jobs to fund rishi Sunak’s pledge to boost defence spending to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2030. Speaking to BBC Breakfast today (24 April ...

As David Cameron learned to his cost over Brexit, voters don’t judge politicians on policy, they judge on results, says Henry Hill of ConservativeHome

Tributes paid to former Labour minister and welfare campaigner Frank Field, who has died at the age of 81

 

Father ‘saw his little daughter die before his eyes’ says charity worker after Channel rescue

The PM gets through his ‘emergency legislation’ after four-and-a-half months of parliamentary ping-pong

Boris Johnson first promised in 2022 that Britain would spend 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence by the end of this decade

The prime minister was grilled about whether he would hold a summer election to capitalise on the scheme coming into effect

Watch live as rishi Sunak meets Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk at a military base in Warsaw on Tuesday, 23 April, after his controversial Rwanda bill was given the green light in parliament.