‘I’m a girl from a council estate and I’ve had to prove my worth.’ Angela Rayner back in the driving seat for LabourLabour’s flamboyant deputy leader back to her pugnacious best as she tours Britain by election battle busWed Jun 12 2024 - 05:00
Tory party launches its manifesto at Silverstone as wheels threaten to come off campaignNot even the proximity of Brad Pitt could add excitement to the flaccid Tory eventTue Jun 11 2024 - 20:43
Tory party to launch election manifesto as it hopes to revive campaign by dangling promise of tax cutsAfter a torrid few days following D-Day row, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will try to get floundering general election campaign back on track in NorthamptonshireTue Jun 11 2024 - 08:19
‘Real children, real families, real lives’: Poverty is a huge problem in parts of Britain but barely features in the electionThe north east is one of the proudest parts of England but also one of its poorest with kids most at riskSun Jun 09 2024 - 17:06
Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby on Britain today: ‘Just alienation, frustration, resentment and contempt’Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby on UK elections, his new book, Russia’s war psyche and Tony O’Reilly’s holiday homeSat Jun 08 2024 - 06:00
Sunak struggles to contain row over D-Day gaffeBritish prime minister skipped commemoration in France to record television interviewFri Jun 07 2024 - 18:17
George Galloway targets more gains as Labour loses support among British MuslimsKeir Starmer is ‘Blairism without the laughs, the polish or the pizazz’, says newly elected MP for RochdaleWed Jun 05 2024 - 20:24
UK leaders’ debate: Sunak’s tax attack on Starmer leads to a soap opera in Coronation Street spin roomUK election: Tory leader’s jibe that Labour would raise taxes by £2,000 lingered after the leaders’ TV debate but was not the knockout blow he neededWed Jun 05 2024 - 08:05
Go west: Woman from west Dublin eyes west London seat in WestminsterUK Labour Party councillor and Greenhills native Deirdre Costigan is strong favourite to win Ealing SouthallWed Jun 05 2024 - 07:15
Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn may have more in common than either would like to let onBritish media have pawed the ground for personality narratives in this electionTue Jun 04 2024 - 16:17
Keir Starmer needs a way to calm Labour’s infighting over ‘purge’ of left wingersThe row is damaging the party’s general election campaignThu May 30 2024 - 20:07
Nigel Farage and Richard Tice of Reform UK preach for a business tax on foreign workersAnti-immigration party Reform UK, which is at 13 per cent in the polls, hosts media event in LondonThu May 30 2024 - 17:57
Labour puts plan to cure Britain’s national health service at heart of election campaignShadow health secretary Wes Streeting says re-electing Tories would be like ‘giving the matches back to the arsonists’Wed May 29 2024 - 19:48
Keir Starmer promises ‘respectful engagement’ with Irish Government if elected prime ministerLabour leader says he is ‘acutely aware of the issues at play’ in Anglo-Irish relationsWed May 29 2024 - 13:46
Starmer wraps himself in the flag to woo back patriotic British votersThe Union Jack is back in vogue at the Labour Party while England’s cross of St George is also in from the coldWed May 29 2024 - 05:00
Angela Rayner accuses Tories of ‘desperate tactics’ as police close inquiry into her house saleLabour deputy leader dogged for months by questions over tax affairs that threatened her political careerTue May 28 2024 - 20:10
‘I’ve changed this party, permanently’: Keir Starmer promises red renewal in Tory party’s blue backyardThe Labour leader travelled to England’s southern coast for his first big speech of the campaignMon May 27 2024 - 19:44
Conservative Party’s national service plan is the ‘monkey tennis’ of policy ideasThe policy of mandatory national service for 18 year olds has dominated British mediaSun May 26 2024 - 18:04
David Cameron sinks Irish-Scottish Rockall fishing dealIreland had a deal with Edinburgh to allow Irish trawlers catch monkfish and haddock but the Tory government said noSat May 25 2024 - 06:00
UK election: Jeremy Corbyn to stand as independent while more Tory MPs join ‘chicken run’Both Labour and Conservative parties still to finalise their full running slates in advance of polling day on July 4thFri May 24 2024 - 19:51
Keir Starmer’s green army: meet the Irish strategists aiming to put the UK Labour leader into Downing Street Morgan McSweeney, Sue Gray and Pat McFadden are key players in the campaign for Labour to win the next British electionFri May 24 2024 - 06:02
Jumping jelly bean Rishi Sunak bounces into campaign modeAfter his soaking outside Downing Street on Wednesday, the UK prime minister is far more jaunty as he visits England’s sturdy midlandsThu May 23 2024 - 18:32
‘Our plan and our priorities are working’: Rishi Sunak limbers up for UK election campaign centred on economyUK prime minister confounds predictions of autumn election by calling snap poll for July 4thWed May 22 2024 - 20:58
Rishi Sunak stuns Westminster by calling snap election for July 4thBritish prime minister’s Conservative Party widely expected to lose to opposition Keir Starmer’s Labour after 14 years in powerWed May 22 2024 - 19:41
‘Bionic MP’ makes emotional return to the House of Commons after quadruple amputationTory MP Craig Mackinlay almost lost his life following a bout of sepsisWed May 22 2024 - 15:47
“People think ‘there are hostages – it is what it is’. But there are families who cannot carry on with their lives”Families of Israeli victims of the October 7th attacks come to London as attention on the hostages’ plight wanesWed May 22 2024 - 05:00
Sunak apologises to infected blood scandal victims on ‘day of shame’ for the British stateFinal compensation bill for victims of infected blood products expected to top £10 billionMon May 20 2024 - 19:18
Economic shocks and geopolitical risks are new norm ‘in line with the sweep of history’, says Paschal DonohoeMinister for Public Expenditure works the room at a high-powered gathering of Irish business leaders in the City of LondonFri May 17 2024 - 19:03
Theresa May muses on Liz Truss’s shelf life and Boris Johnson’s affairs as she nears the end of her time as an MPThe UK’s former prime minister effervescent at a lunch in Westminster this weekFri May 17 2024 - 13:01
‘I do God’: London mayor Sadiq Khan on religious faith, meeting the Pope and the fight to save the planetLondon’s mayor led a delegation to the Vatican on Thursday for a summit on climate changeThu May 16 2024 - 18:56
Labour to fire starting gun on long election campaign against ToriesParty leader Keir Starmer showcased among list of core pledges to woo electorate, but promises run shy of detailThu May 16 2024 - 00:01
‘The house fell down on their heads’: Gazan falafel seller in southwest London with a tale to tellPalestinians and Israelis both claim the ubiquitous fried chickpea balls as their ownWed May 15 2024 - 05:00
David Miliband comes over all coy over rumours he could end up as a Labour government’s ambassador in WashingtonFormer UK foreign secretary, now based in New York, made series of high-profile appearances at events in London last week, including at the Irish Embassy in BelgraviaMon May 13 2024 - 06:00
‘We’re a gay bar, not a political venue’: London’s best-known gay pub in row over Israel Eurovision boycottThe Royal Vauxhall Tavern has been shut for most of this week after anti-Israel activists refused to perform drag acts in the pubSat May 11 2024 - 05:00
London’s plague of tacky US candy shops leaves a sour tasteCouncil leaders have cracked down on the shops, accusing some of tax evasion and selling knockoff chocolatesWed May 08 2024 - 05:00
Scotland’s new first minister promises to reach out to oppositionJohn Swinney’s erstwhile SNP leadership rival Kate Forbes is expected to be brought back into the cabinetTue May 07 2024 - 20:05
‘Britain needs a shake up’: UK economist from a Kilburn Irish family on banks, business and BorisGerard Lyons was once a contender for governor of the Bank of England. Now he wants it overhauledTue May 07 2024 - 05:15
Tories’ worst local election results in decades open up fresh row in the party over its futureRishi Sunak seems safe from a heave but recriminations begin after the party is hammered in local and mayoral elections in EnglandSun May 05 2024 - 15:18
Conservatives on course for worst set of local election results in four decadesTory rebels likely to make another attempt to oust PM Rishi Sunak as party suffers bad night in local electionsFri May 03 2024 - 22:05
English local elections show Labour’s poll lead is bang onThere was nothing in the results to suggest the polls are off, which suggests Keir Starmer should start packing for Downing StreetFri May 03 2024 - 19:59
A week of high drama in Scottish politics ends with the SNP’s disparate camps joining forcesJohn Swinney looks set to be crowned leader of the SNP and of Scotland, as Kate Forbes bides her timeFri May 03 2024 - 16:00
SNP’s ‘dream team’ unites as Kate Forbes pulls out of leadership race and backs John Swinney SNP veteran Swinney promises to bring his erstwhile young rival back into the heart of Scotland’s governmentThu May 02 2024 - 11:18
England goes to the polls in local elections crucial for Rishi Sunak’s immediate futureTory rebels may use the results, which are expected to be dire for the party, as an excuse to raises questions over the prime minister’s futureWed May 01 2024 - 16:13
Mayoral races could determine if Rishi Sunak sinks or swimsLabour’s Sadiq Khan should beat the Tory Susan Hall in the London election on Thursday, but you never knowWed May 01 2024 - 05:00
Emergency law set to be approved to transfer asylum applicants back to UKCabinet poised to back plan amid controversy over claim more than 80 per cent of people applying for asylum in Ireland are coming across the BorderTue Apr 30 2024 - 05:00
Tánaiste says claim that over 80% of asylum seekers come from UK via Northern Ireland is not based on dataUK denies its stance on asylum seekers threatens agreement with RepublicMon Apr 29 2024 - 20:36
Humza Yousaf tried to appear strong, but ended up looking weakScotland’s outgoing first minister, who announced on Monday he would quit, lacked political guile, his rivals sayMon Apr 29 2024 - 20:34
Britain’s relations with Ireland could get caught in crossfire of Sunak’s election battlePM’s refusal to accept back asylum seekers using Border as route from UK to Republic raises tensions at bilateral conferenceMon Apr 29 2024 - 19:54
British prime minister Rishi Sunak ‘not interested’ in deal with Ireland to return asylum seekers to UKHelen McEntee pulls out of British-Irish conference after meeting with UK minister was postponedMon Apr 29 2024 - 14:51
Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf will try to repair rift with Greens to save his job Angry Scottish Greens threatening to back no-confidence motion in the SNP leader after he ended governing partnership with Green PartyFri Apr 26 2024 - 20:34
