Kemi Badenoch pledges to rebuild Conservative Party’s reputation with debt ‘golden rule’
Tory leader outlines plan for reducing debt and fuelling growth as party seeks to move on from Truss-era turmoil
Reform UK
Right turn in Manchester: Tories chase Reform UK – and risk losing their own centre
Conservative leader needs her big speech on Wednesday to land well as hard right-leaning shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick waits in the wings
Tories’ future as political party capable of governing is at stake: ‘It is that serious’
Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference
Keir Starmer delivers perhaps his best speech so far as UK prime minister
Labour leader takes the fight to his internal and external political enemies in address to his party’s conference in Liverpool
Could Labour’s ‘king of the north’ dethrone Keir Starmer?
As Labour heads into a fractious party conference, the Manchester mayor has made his leadership ambitions clear. But some party insiders believe he might have ‘over-reached’
Is Britain’s ailing Conservative Party finally over?
Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block
Lib Dems gleeful as party eyes historic shift in British politics
Faithful see their party as the ‘liberal antidote’ to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Move follows that of Nadine Dorries earlier this month
Is Britain headed for prime minister Nigel Farage?
Reform UK conference devotees cheer their man as Labour faces yet more turmoil
Greens to the left, Reform to the right: Starmer’s Labour feels the squeeze
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski shows growing challenge to Labour from the left
Keir Starmer faces real peril in defining period as MPs return
UK prime minister must overturn Reform’s migration-fuelled summer dominance, while crucial budget also looms into view
Nigel Farage’s immigration bombshell raises nationalist hopes and unionist fears
Unionism still faces a hard new political reality if Northern Ireland comes to be seen in Britain as an obstacle to controlling immigration
Tory Scottish parliamentarian defects to Farage’s Reform UK
Burgeoning anti-migrant party has dominated summer recess of British politics
Reform UK announces plan to repeal human rights laws and deport all asylum seekers
Nigel Farage says party would remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights and disapply international treaties
The Irish Times view on UK online safety rules: a new wedge issue in British politics
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage opposes the legislation, but offers no convincing solution to the growing crisis of harmful online content
British MP admits mistaking charity rowing crew for ‘illegal migrants’
Rowers were raising money for research on motor neurone disease
Starmer pokes fun at Farage’s expense, but Reform leader may have the last laugh as migration looms large in UK-France summit
Britain’s prime minister badly needs an asylum seeker returns deal with France
‘Worst of any prime minister’: Ten moments that defined Labour’s first year in power in the UK
From a ‘loveless landslide’ to excessive gloom and a climbdown forced by his own MPs, the UK prime minister has endured a torrid first 12 months in office
The Irish Times view on Keir Starmer’s anniversary: little to cheer about
Will humility and mea culpas mollify angry voters? Probably not
A Nigel Farage-led UK goverment could herald a united Ireland – Varadkar
Former taoiseach hopes Farage win does not happen, but Irish Government should be ‘just-in-case’ planning
Rory Stewart: Britons’ view of Ireland has gone from ‘patronising superiority to complete ignorance’
Ireland is the UK’s best route back to better ties with the EU, says the former Conservative minister
Nigel Farage sets Britain’s political weather but Reform UK has clouds in its own sky
Despite success with voters, recent upheaval was a reminder that Farage’s party can still self-harm
John Simpson: ‘It’s been great to watch how Ireland went from a pretty backward country to a real powerhouse in Europe’
Veteran journalist and broadcaster, now 80, on the dangers of his profession and his continuing affinity with Ireland
Scottish Labour holds off surging Reform to win pivotal Holyrood byelection
Scottish Labour’s surprise win comes after national polls placed party in third place behind the SNP and Reform
Reform UK chairman quits after calling question from party’s newest MP ‘dumb’
Zia Yusuf says working to get party elected not ‘good use of my time’ after Sarah Pochin asked PM Keir Starmer about a burka ban
‘Scunnered’ Scottish voters go to the polls in crucial byelection
SNP favourite to win while Reform UK fancies its chances of beating Labour, which has lost ground it gained in 2024 general election
Aontú Ireland rejects comparison to Farage’s Reform UK
Party emphasises left-wing credentials as members vote on matters including immigration and flag displays at ardfheis
Will Keir Starmer’s migration crackdown finally let Britain ‘take back control’?
In the News podcast: How did a man, who previously opposed Brexit and called for the return of free movement between Britain and the EU, change his views so radically?
Starmer announces tough immigration stance as PM vows to ‘take back control’ of Britain’s borders
Big announcement shows how far Labour has shifted right on immigration during Starmer’s short time in No 10
VE Day: Britain takes a break from its troubles to celebrate 80th anniversary
Parades and military fly-past in central London as capital is festooned for traditional British pomp and ceremony
What does the surge of Farage’s Reform mean for UK politics?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK lives up to the hype, trouncing Labour and Tories in local election votes
Reform also wins crucial Westminster byelection as it upends English politics with a string of stunning victories
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK beats Labour by six votes in Runcorn and Helsby byelection
Reform win a blow to Keir Starmer in first election test as British prime minister
Tories braced for losses while Reform could emerge on top as parts of England hold local and mayoral votes
Nigel Farage’s party vies with Labour for working class votes in England’s north and midlands while Tories and Lib Dems battle in the south
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