Republican lawmakers are attempting to shield big oil from having to pay for its contributions to the climate crisis, alarming environmental advocates. New House and Senate bills, led by Harriet Hage

A timescale for the rule change in Britain is also yet to be confirmed, and it is unclear whether the updated rules will need to be in force before or after mid-2027, when Labour ministers hope the wi

He said: "One of the problems with the structure of comedy is that the big comics are on loads of money and they're all fine and the small comics are playing to 20 in a shed and not getting paid for i

His team sees his record on Iran as strong, and they want him to keep talking about it. "He might not have got [the decision] quite right on farmers' inheritance tax", admits one in government. "But t

While some, like Rick in Birmingham, are sticking with Labour as "the party that endeavours to enable people to live their lives to the full", I spoke to many others who began by saying "I always used

Speaking last month, General Sir Richard Barrons, another one of the authors of the SDR, said the British Army could no longer do "anything substantial", and was so depleted it could only "seize a sma

People aged 16 and over will be asked to vote for one party in their constituency, and from those votes six Members of the Senedd (MSs) will be elected in each area to represent it.

When he told her that he wasn't gay, she told him: "Listen to me. There is nobody who is real. There is only one way out in order to live here now and that is the very method everyone is adopting."

We heard from several asylum seekers who said they'd been encouraged by advisers they were paying to bring their claim to visit a GP and pretend they were depressed. They could then use their medical

When he appears in front of MPs on Tuesday, Robbins will no doubt be pressed on why he thought the gamble was worth it. But the political reality? Before Robbins' department took a look, the former pe

The party that wins the most seats in the Senedd election would expect to lead the government. However, no party has ever won a majority in the Welsh Parliament and the new system makes it highly unli

"He took the view this process did not allow him to disclose to me the recommendation," the prime minister said, whilst adding that he "should have provided this information to me".

It is designed to identify whether people applying for government jobs pose a security risk, either because they might seek to abuse their position, or because their personal lives make them a potenti

When Labour MPs come to form a judgment on the prime minister after the elections on 7 May, the events of the past few days will be a factor, but less because of what exactly transpired with Lord Mand

All you need to know as Essex heads into a big round of elections Find out when, where and how you can have your say in the biggest set of council votes since 2021.

In a letter to the committee published as he was giving oral evidence, Sir Olly said that when he arrived in post at the Foreign Office on 20 January, Lord Mandelson's appointment had already been ann

They also cast doubt on whether Sir Olly ever actually saw the recommendation to the Foreign Office not to approve Lord Mandelson's vetting, saying it was unlikely he was given the full report and may

Speculating about why Foreign Office officials awarded the clearance, she said it was possible there was a view the risks associated with Mandelson were "priced in", and it was for them to do "what th

She takes over at a challenging time for the charity after its yearly accounts recently revealed corporate donations had more than halved in the last financial year, falling from £348,636 in 2024 to £

Sharing a video on X on Monday, Gomez wrote: "They can try to ban me, but they cannot ban the TRUTH. See you on May 16th."

In a statement, they added students were getting in touch with questions - "many of whom are among the most vulnerable, many are parents, many are from low-income backgrounds, many chose weekend study

"The narrative is that the Muslim vote will go to the independents regardless, but that's not the case - we want whoever will fix our potholes and fight to get speed bumps in the area," they say.

His party has called for temporary processing centres to be set up to clear the asylum backlog within six months so that "those with a right to be here to get on with their lives and support themselve

Sir Keir said the then-head of the Civil Service, Sir Chris Wormald, should also have been told when he was asked to review the appointment process last September, describing it as "astonishing" that

For the government, Baroness Smith told the House of Lords they had taken "not seen, not heard" - meaning phones must be off and in a bag - out of the guidance as an option for schools and were willin

"I found it very hard to think how I would explain to the office what the credentials of Matthew [Doyle] were to be in an important head of mission role when I was in danger of making very senior, ver

A Labour Party spokesperson said: "These are incredibly serious charges. When complaints were first raised with the Labour Party we conducted a thorough internal investigation and we referred the matt

The boundaries are changing here too. The old constituencies and regions are being replaced with 16 new constituencies that will each elect six members using a system of proportional representation.

"It is clear to the public that he is failing at the job, it is clear to civil servants that he is throwing them under the bus, and it is clear to members across this House that he is not fit to lead,

In a letter to The Times he wrote: "As Robbins explained yesterday, the question for him was not whether to tell the prime minister what he already knew, but whether those issues could be mitigated en

Speaking to GB News, Labour MP Jonathan Brash, said: "Ultimately, we are in a situation where I don't think anyone reasonably expects the prime minister to lead the party into the next election and I

Some MPs are more fatalistic. A minister told us: "Starmer is seriously unpopular. I think we are going to lose the next election. The only way we win is if people feel better off and I have not heard

She said trying to get a job for Lord Doyle in the Foreign Office was "ridiculous", adding: "He promised them [Labour MPs] probity; what he has given them is cronyism and an Old Boy's Club where Matth

This is significant, as while Sir Keir went ahead with the appointment after seeing the due diligence report, the PM has insisted he would not have done so if he knew the vetting agency had recommende

Speaking to the BBC in a migrant camp in northern France, one man said that in France he was homeless, but in the UK he would be able to live "as a normal human being".

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