Labour is facing fresh questions over its plans to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after violent unrest swept across the Indian Ocean nation, leaving a young mother seriously ...

Britain's welfare crisis has reached an extraordinary new milestone, with more seven-year-old children receiving disability benefits than 50-year-old adults, as Labour faces fresh accusations of ...

Labour is facing fierce criticism over its plans to overhaul Northern Ireland's Troubles legislation, amid warnings from former Army chiefs and a veterans commissioner that British servicemen could ...

Britain's largest crop input supplier is telling growers to have three quarters of their fertiliser bought before 31 December ...

The International Monetary Fund has cautioned against blanket cost-of-living subsidies before John Healey's first Budget on 28 October, saying support should be targeted and temporary and that an ...

Luke Pollard told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has "deep pockets" and that the future of the Rough facility is "a very clear commercial decision for the ...

Britain is facing the fastest increase in its government revenue burden among developed economies, according to International Monetary Fund forecasts, piling fresh pressure on Labour ahead of the ...

Rape charges carrying a life maximum already exist for cases where prosecutors can disprove consent, but Baroness Casey found cases downgraded where 13 to 15-year-olds were said to have consented. The ...

The Prime Minister told MPs it would be a "dereliction of duty" not to seek closer ties with Brussels. Since Britain left the EU, Conservative and Labour governments have made different choices about ...

Andy Burnham's decision to exempt specified offences from the Sentencing Act's earlier release rules has put prisons back at risk of running out of space, the Institute for Government has warned.

The Prime Minister told a sympathetic podcast that Russian interference in 2016 was "clear". Within a day, Downing Street and ...

Labour's handling of Britain's prison overcrowding crisis is facing fresh scrutiny as another 650 offenders are due to be released early on Tuesday, 13 October, even as some prisoners freed in the ...