Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is encouraging Tory-controlled councils to consider launching legal challenges against the use of hotels to house asylum seekers in their areas.Badenoch said Epping Forest District...

Iain WatsonPolitical correspondentGetty ImagesA protest outside the Bell Hotel in Epping that took place earlier this monthThe High Court judgment granting a temporary court injunction to prevent asylum seekers...

Jeremy Corbyn "capitulated" over the definition of antisemitism while leader of the Labour party, fellow MP Zarah Sultana has said.Former Labour MPs Corbyn and Sultana launched a new political...

Helen CattPolitical correspondentBBCWarning: This article contains strong languageThe video opens with some white cliffs and a politician standing on a beach. This isn't Dover, and it's not Nigel Farage...

Thousands of Afghans brought to safety in the UK have had their personal data exposed, after a Ministry of Defence (MoD) sub-contractor suffered a data breach. The names, passport...

Iain WatsonPolitical correspondentEPAReform UK leader Nigel Farage has called on the prime minister to allow him to appoint peers to the House of Lords. In a letter to Sir...

A Labour councillor who called for far-right protesters' throats to be cut acted "completely out of character" and was in the wrong, a court has heard.Ricky Jones, 58, is...

Kate WhannelPolitical reporterEPAKeir Starmer co-chairing a virtual meeting of the coalition of the willing There is a "viable chance" of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, Prime Minister Sir...

Police will be encouraged to disclose the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile and sensitive investigations under new guidance, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says.It is...

ITV News questioned the former SNP leader on the political and personal revelations in her book.Male rapists should "probably" lose the right to choose their gender, Nicola Sturgeon has...

EPAMacron, Zelensky and Starmer spoke on the phone on SaturdayEuropean allies have rallied behind Ukraine in a renewed surge of support, insisting that any peace talks with Russia must...

Kate WhannelPolitical reporterPA MediaJD Vance and David Lammy fishing together at Chevening in KentUS Vice President JD Vance is taking his holiday in the UK - a trip which...