UK politics

Conservative leader needs her big speech on Wednesday to land well as hard right-leaning shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick waits in the wings

Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block

Volunteers keep Bournemouth’s streets safe, group says, but others worry about vigilantes

Faithful see their party as the ‘liberal antidote’ to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Much of the energy at present seems to be on the right wing of British politics generally

Celtic land of Cornwall submits a petition demanding nationhood status but gets a predictable response

US president’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has exposed him to scrutiny

Move follows that of Nadine Dorries earlier this month

New revelations about his closeness to Epstein proved too much, forcing Mandelson into his extraordinary third resignation

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Labour backbenches are uneasy, which is where the British prime minister’s northern problem comes in

Reform UK conference devotees cheer their man as Labour faces yet more turmoil

Keir Starmer reshuffles cabinet as Angela Rayner steps down after underpaying stamp duty

The proscription raises the question of whether noisy, disruptive protest still has a place in democratic life

‘Devastated’ housing secretary Angela Rayner says she considered resigning over the issue

New Green Party leader Zack Polanski shows growing challenge to Labour from the left

Home secretary Yvette Cooper says the country’s asylum system needs ‘substantial reforms’

UK prime minister must overturn Reform’s migration-fuelled summer dominance, while crucial budget also looms into view

Earlier ruling required asylum seekers to be temporarily evicted from Bell Hotel in Epping

Burgeoning anti-migrant party has dominated summer recess of British politics

Nigel Farage says party would remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights and disapply international treaties

Even a majority of Labour members believe the UK prime minister is handling the issue badly, poll suggests

Philip Stephens describes the record of British political leaders with regard to Ireland as one of ‘insouciant neglect’

More than 200 hotels in Britain house more than 30,000 asylum seekers

Right-wing activists accuse councils of being anti-British for removing Union Jacks and St George’s Crosses

The Welsh politician, a former Anglican priest, has been an MP for 24 years, is still a Remainer and may be related to Donald Trump

Three countries say Iran must resume negotiations with US over nuclear programme

Rally in support of banned group Palestine Action planned for 1pm on Saturday outside parliament in Westminster

Reports that Rushanara Ali evicted London tenants before increasing rent by almost £700

German minister says ‘vast majority of member states have made it clear that this is a path the EU must take’

A UFO-hunting police and crime commissioner is the latest to switch

Small boat arrivals across the English Channel are at record levels

Commission president Ursula von der Leyen even adopts Maga talking points to justify lopsided trade deal with US

Group member Des Lee says he remembers ‘every single thing in the finest detail’ from the loyalist atrocity in Co Down 50 years ago

International Fund for Ireland helped lay groundwork for Belfast Agreement

Israel must take ‘substantive steps’ to end ‘appalling’ situation in Gaza, says Keir Starmer

US president to meet Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen during trip

As the Scottish independence referendum showed, young first-time voters can be surprisingly conservative

Treaty includes a pledge by both countries to regard a threat against one as a threat against the other

First Minister Michelle O’Neill says UK law change is a ‘step forward for democracy’ but DUP opposes lowering voting age