Getty ImagesNearly 620 miles (1,000km) of new power lines need to be built to meet the government's clean energy plans, official energy planners have concluded.In a report, the body...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is to announce an extra £75m to tackle people-smuggling gangs.The Interpol general assembly is being held in the UK for the first time in...

Badenoch says leading Tory party 'the most enormous honour'Kemi Badenoch has promised to win back voters who have deserted the Conservatives after securing an historic victory in the party's...

BBCFamously, it is the hardest job in politics: leader of the opposition.And it is particularly hard if your party has just gone down to a historically bad thrashing at...

PA MediaHilary Benn has sent a letter to the Stormont speakerThe Secretary of State has triggered the process to enable MLAs to vote on the controversial post-Brexit trading arrangements.Hilary...

This was a huge, change-making budget.Don’t let anyone tell you there isn’t much difference between the main parties at Westminster.This was a Budget with Labour’s instincts and worldview stamped...

Helen TipperAxel Rudakubana - pictured in a court drawing from August - is due to appear in court again on WednesdayThe most senior figures in government first became aware...

Katie AmessKatie Amess said there are questions for the police on why they did not do more to protect her father, the late MP Sir David Amess"We have a...

Daily MailLabour MP Mike Amesbury has been suspended from the party and has had the whip withdrawn, after CCTV footage emerged appearing to show him punching a man to...

Some Home Office staff are getting an inflation-busting 9% pay rise, the department has confirmed. The union representing civil servants, PCS, welcomed the deal, which is nearly double the...

The chancellor is set to increase the amount employers in the UK pay in National Insurance to raise £20bn for public services including the NHS.Rachel Reeves is also expected...

The UK "can't change our history", Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC when asked about paying reparations to countries impacted by the transatlantic slave trade.His comments...