Speculation PM could call election to forestall possible leadership challenge has its own momentum despite No 10 dismissals

John Curtice says Boris Johnson’s No 10 lockdown parties and Truss’s economic catastrophe have made it impossible for Rishi sunak to cling on to power

Doctors’ ability to sign people off work is crucial, say readers, particularly for those with mental health problems

Speaking to experts and people on the ground in Pas de Calais reveals a different narrative to that told by Rishi sunak

Count Binface has vowed to rename London Bridge after Phoebe Waller-Bridge if he wins May’s mayoral election. His other flagship policies for the capital include price-capping croissants at £1.10 and granting grade-one listed status to Claudia Win ...

 

Concern grows over legality of government’s approach as new figures show more than 150,000 carers facing huge penalties

Rishi sunak’s policies invariably end in disaster

Home secretary James Cleverly hit out at ‘distasteful’ and ‘lazy’ criticism of policy, but insisted he was not talking about French leader’s remarks

Government allowed information to be released fully for only 34% of requests in 2023

Rishi sunak took a morning jog around Westminster with the “Hardest Geezer” Russ Cook on Thursday morning (25 April). The pair were seen running side by side as they returned to Downing Street. Earlier this month, Mr Cook completed his grue ...

Hundreds voice dismay at sunak and Starmer, accusing them of misreading UK attitudes towards Europe

Last month, Prime Minister Rishi sunak vowed to make the UK ‘the best place in the world to be a female founder’.

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 ...

Analysis by Refugee Council reveals that even if government is successful in flying 2,000 people to Rwanda by end of year, a further 115,575 asylum seekers will be left stranded in UK

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 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’

Editorial: A desperate prime minister has given up trying to meaningfully account for the money he is putting into pre-election promises