Tim Farron was adamant Jeremy Hunt's spring Budget will not "shift the dial" on the Tories' poll woes. Speaking outside parliament on Wednesday (6 March), the Former Liberal Democrat leader maintained that the public won't vote base ...

Will the tax cuts at the heart of the chancellor’s make-or-break budget give his party any hope?

Sir Keir Starmer quizzed Rishi sunak on how women and girls can have confidence in the criminal justice system “when almost all rapists don’t see the inside of a courtroom”. Mr Starmer made his comments as he pressed the prime minister ...

Lord Mandelson told the How to Win an Election podcast that Rishi sunak and the Labour leader could better present themselves to win over voters

Watch live as Rishi sunak faces Sir Keir Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday 6 March, ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s Budget.

British Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt is heading to Parliament to announce tax cuts for millions of workers

Sir Keir Starmer needs to “shed a few pounds” before the general election, Labour grandee Peter Mandelson has said. Lord Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour, said Sir Keir needed to lose weight to appeal to voters. In an interview with ...

 

Exclusive: Official envoy found out ‘en route’ to promote event in Africa, government admits

PM fires starting gun on election end days with revelations about his bed-making fervor and dishwasher loading skills

Rishi sunak and Akshata Murty slammed as ‘out of touch’ over answers to household jobs questions

What exactly are the dishwasher rules, and does it really matter?

Mark Rowley says officers are being called ‘woke and fascist’ at same time and feel undermined by lack of support

With Rishi sunak’s party lagging Labour in the polls by 20 points, Greg Hands said the contest will be ‘later this year’

Shadow Cabinet Office minister makes £10 bet on Sky News that Conservatives are planning for May election

Speculation continues to mount as the chancellor prepares to deliver what is likely to be the last Budget before the general election on Wednesday 6 March. Most of that speculation has so far focused on tax cuts, although both Jeremy Hunt and Rishi S ...

 

Rishi sunak wants to convince children that the system is not rigged against them – but he’s arguing against the reality of their own lives, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Peers, including senior Tories, vote by margins of about 100 votes for changes to legislation, which will have to go back to Commons

Two former defence chiefs, ex-defence secretary and US ambassador join our call to stop deportation of Afghans who served with UK forces - as House of Lords tries to force changes to PM’s flagship Rwanda bill