Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports on the Wes Streeting coup that wasn't to be and the rest of the news from ...

It’s turning into the mother of hoary old chestnuts. Yeah yeah, Labour’s going to do what it promised not to. Whack up income tax. It’s getting as boring as Keir Starmer endlessly banging on about his ...

No denying it’s been quite the week, what with the British monarchy rocked to its foundations and the British government scraping through the mother of all near misses. But as the immediate hullabaloo ...

Everyone’s got everything crossed that Donald Trump will have better luck than Neville Chamberlain did in 1938, and that the fragile Gaza deal really will lead to lasting stability in the Middle East.

The backdrop to the upcoming domestic story, the Conservative Party Conference, could hardly be more grisly. Or closer to home, given that last week’s antisemitic atrocity causing multiple deaths and ...

Pretty much everywhere the wheels look like they’re coming off. Doctors here have locked horns with the government over their NHS pay claim, while medics in Gaza are nearly as malnourished as the ...

A survey conducted by an even-handed pollster last week suggested three-quarters of us think this government is at least as chaotic as the last lot. And it’s easy to see how this narrative has taken ...

Rarely has the air in Westminster felt more heavily laced with unreality. Even as epoch-making decisions are being made and maybe unmade by MPs and peers, the spectre of war somehow makes all their ...

Problem is, there’s not enough to go round. No surprise in itself, but the lamentable extent of the shortfall is becoming increasingly apparent. And pleas for more are fast turning into demands, with ...

Karl Marx’s suggestion that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, doesn’t seem quite right, because this summer’s threatened wave of strikes doesn’t feel particularly funny. But ...

Everything’s up for grabs. The British economy, our relations with Europe, and, in coming days, the biggest litmus test yet of the Labour government. As our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer ...

It’s like the selective deafness deployed by dogs, when they’re being called by their owners but have just found a treasure trove of interesting smells to sniff at. Chancellor Rachel Reeves seems to ...