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

Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports on the purported income tax rise from the Chanceller in the upcoming budget.

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 ...

The tinderbox trauma in the Middle East is a chilling display of the limits to any government’s financial power, anywhere in the world. Just as Chancellor Rachel Reeves finally seems to be getting her ...

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 ...

It’s not so much a matter of what’s happened as what’s to be done about it. Remedies are churning out on an industrial scale, and there are at least as many opinions as there are people. Because, as ...

While the chances of an end to the bloody war in Ukraine remain anyone’s guess, the Prime Minister’s switched back to his day job, that’s to say running the country. And, for better or worse, he’s ...