MPs voted through plans on Monday and bill is expected to become law within days

Blamed for almost everything else these days, for sunak the focus on foreign affairs was a blessed relief

Prime minister echoes calls by Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron and tells MPs he is ‘urgently’ working to prevent escalation

The prime minister said the ‘reckless and dangerous escalation’ by Iran on Saturday night risked plunging the Middle East into a deeper crisis

Watch live as Rishi sunak is set to address parliament following Iran’s attack on Israel, after home secretary James Cleverly takes questions from MPs.

Labour have joined calls for the government to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terorrist organisation

Simon Taylor, the former head of drama at independent school Winchester College, faces two counts of sexual activity with a boy who was aged between 16 and 17 at the time of the alleged offences

Find out who’s up and who’s down in the latest polls – and how many seats each party is likely to win in the next general election

PM under pressure to designate IRGC as terrorist group as ex-minister says government justifications are ‘absurd’

Rishi sunak braced for fresh round of wrangling over plan that is due to cost taxpayers £1.8m per deportee

David Cameron believes Rishi sunak is the “Unai Emery” of politics. Speaking to LBC on Monday 15 April, the foreign secretary likened the prime minister to the Aston Villa manager following a 2-0 upset win against Arsenal. Host Nick Ferrari ...

Labour’s shadow defence secretary has urged Rishi sunak to set out the government’s actions to “pursue the path of peace” in the Middle East. John Healey made the comments after Iran launched an “unprecedented” attack on ...

Foreign secretary talks up party’s prospects – and his ‘very good boss’ Rishi sunak – on morning broadcast round

 

Across Europe, the mainstream right is being eclipsed by more extreme rivals. The same fate could await the Tories, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Simon van Teutem

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