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 ...

Watch live as deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden clashes with Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday 24 April.

Battle of the deputies as Dowden and Rayner set to clash at PMQs

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

Ministers are braced for legal challenges to the Rwanda plan and the judiciary has made 25 courtrooms available to deal with cases.

 

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

PM answers for Nato chief that it ‘wouldn’t be appropriate for him’ to be drawn into domestic politics – before launching into political attack on Labour

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

PM announces plan to increase spending to £87bn a year by 2030 on visit to Poland

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.

Union threatens ministers with legal action amid fears staff could be obliged to breach civil service code and international law

A Tory immigration minister was grilled on immigration figures as migrants were seen travelling through the Channel on a boat live on air. Michael Tomlinson was questioned on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, 23 April, after Rishi sunak’s controversial Rwa ...

The government has already committed £290 million to the troubled scheme

Rishi sunak, Jeremy Hunt, and Grant Shapps arrived in Warsaw on Tuesday (23 April) just hours after the government’s controversial Rwanda Bill was passed. The prime minister is expected to unveil an extra £500 million of military funding to Ukrain ...

Johnny Timpson says he wants to ‘take a stand’ after revelations thousands of carers are being forced to pay huge fines

Claire O’Neill, a former climate minister, says PM’s move was to ‘try and create political division and dividing lines’