Dominic CascianiHome and Legal Correspondent PA Media A High Court judge who oversaw one of the most serious murder trials in recent years in north-west England criticised shadow justice secretary…

The housing secretary has admitted paying the wrong amount of tax on a house. That is pretty much the worst headline conceivable about any housing secretary, let alone Angela Rayner,…

Kemi Badenoch questions the prime minister on rising UK borrowing costs. The Tory leader says former members of the monetary policy committee warn the UK is heading for an economic…

BBC Angela Rayner has admitted she should have paid more tax when she bought her flat in Hove, blaming inaccurate legal advice she received beforehand. The deputy prime minister said…

Healthy Secretary Wes Streeting has said ministers may need to “look at” laws concerning online speech, following the arrest of comedian Graham Linehan. The health secretary said such laws had…

David Wallace LockhartBBC Scotland News political correspondent PA Media Former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched a new party Sometimes the left of Scottish politics can feel like a…

PA Media The union will also carry out action short of a strike, including an overtime ban and a work-to-rule, until 12 September Hundreds of security staff based in the…

Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Baroness Sue Gray has challenged the government’s plan to limit a civil service internship scheme to working-class students. The Labour peer questioned the…

Richard MossPolitical editor, North East & Cumbria PA Tice says he is confident of more success for Reform UK in the North East at next year’s local elections Reform UK’s…

Zack Polanski’s sweary, brash and blunt victory video on social media said everything about how the Green Party of England and Wales is under new leadership. His landslide victory is…