Total of 5,435 asylum seekers arrived via small boats in the UK this year, Home Office figures showed, a 43 per cent increase from the same period last year

The prime minister risks a backbench rebellion when MPs vote on plans to give police the power to fine or move ‘nuisance’ rough sleepers

Exclusive: More than half of the British public think having public transport to and from work is a necessity

Analysis suggests wealthiest would save millions and sunak’s own family could benefit to tune of £250m

Move coincides with financial difficulties for universities arising from high inflation and freezing of domestic tuition fees

Sir Keir Starmer said it was a time of “optimism and new beginnings” as he issued his Easter Sunday message. The Labour leader, who hopes to be in No 10 by the end of the year, used his message to say that people would use Easter to think a ...

Follows leaked recording of comments by senior Tory and Commons Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns

Rishi sunak praised the “incredible work” of Christians in his Easter Sunday message. The prime minister also said he was “thinking of those in pain and suffering around the world” and those persecuted because of their faith who a ...

Starmer, who hopes to be in No 10 by the end of the year, used his message to say that people would use Easter to think about ‘our future and how things can change for the better’

Survey of 15,000 people suggests even party leader Rishi sunak’s North Yorkshire seat is at risk

Malik Karim, who has given the Conservatives £1.6m in donations, won £1.7m of government contracts through his finance firm Fenchurch Advisory last year

Criticism is mounting over the failures of Thames Water and the prime minister’s controversial honours list

Meanwhile spring has sprung, and in keeping with their traditions, Tory MPs are plotting regicide yet again, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Some Tories reportedly want Farage to be given post if he agrees not to not play any role with Reform UK in election

Anneliese Dodds says the honour for Mohamed Mansour appears clearly tied to his £5m donation to the Tories

As Labour launches its local election campaign, the PM is taking a roasting over when a general election will be called

Opposition MPs criticise changes to renters’ reform bill, which cast doubt on removal of no-fault evictions

Mr Gove said he thinks it will be on 14 November or 21 November - a day after meeting with the prime minister and amid fevered speculation about when the election will be held

The Labour leader set out plans to revive Boris Johnson’s failed levelling up agenda and promised to ‘give people hope that politics can change’

Labour leader and deputy Angela Rayner praise former prime minister’s flagship domestic policy priority and say sunak ‘killed it at birth’