London mayor Sadiq Khan insisted he would not have used the phrase 'island of strangers' as the PM struggles to contain anger on his own ben...

Numbers on payrolls were down 33,000 in April according to early estimates, having dropped 106,000 in the past year to 30.3million.

Downing Street has rejected comparisons to former rightwing Tory MP Enoch Powell and insisted the prime minister will ‘not shy away’ from th...

Editorial: When Keir Starmer won the general election, the expectation was that he would govern with compassion and competence. Embracing an...

PM Starmer's shift to the right on immigration risks alienating Labour's large base of left-of-centre supporters.

Keir Starmer has faced staunch criticism from opposition parties for the Government’s latest white paper, which includes sweeping measures t...

Labour is about to preside over England’s biggest right-to-buy council housing sell-off in decades, jeopardising ministers’ promise of extra...

EXCLUSIVE: Under Home Secretary Yvette Cooper 's plans, the Home Office will be told of all foreign nationals convicted of any offence, whil...

“Wales will have the first Reform UK government.”That is the bold claim of David Thomas, a Reform UK councillor in Torfaen, Wales, who s...

Exclusive: Foreign secretary David Lammy has revealed to The Independent his new push with international partners to tackle illegal migratio...

LABOUR MPs warn the controversial assisted dying bill will put off voters at the next General Election.They are worried the legislation...

Kemi Badenoch has told the EU’s ambassador in London that she would reverse any measures in the Government’s post-Brexit reset that “damaged...

In trade deals with India and the US, he has succeeded beyond the dreams of his Tory predecessors. But domestic flashpoints on welfare and i...

An agreement with the US, which leaves its 10 per cent tariffs in place, would be eclipsed by a deal that lowered the trade barriers between...

Dylan Tippetts said Labour no longer ‘supports his fundamental rights’