British Politics

Dominic Cummings has praised Pete Hegseth – but America's extremist future defence secretary could help push Britain back towards the EU

The founding editor of the Guido Fawkes gossip blog is stepping down. From now on, the anti-elite website will be run by a member of the House of Lords

It’s not only what you spend but how you spend it that matters

The next Archbishop of Canterbury has an almost impossible job

Westminster reacts in astonishment as Keir Starmer tells a joke and it is actually quite good

Donald Trump’s election has called into question the Euro-Atlanticism elements of Labour foreign policy

The British press featured some bizarre coverage of the US election this week, even by its own standards

An attack on Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart for political bias comes from an unlikely source

In making them a carbon copy of Reform, the new leader of the opposition shows she is neither thoughtful nor serious

The channel hopes to land an exclusive with the president-elect after being ‘cock-a-hoop’ about his win

The party questioned why Nigel Farage wasn't allowed to lay a wreath, despite there being a perfectly good reason

If the prime minister doesn’t act now, chances are he never will

The former political adviser has mistaken himself for a visionary intellectual rebel. If that’s so, why is his legacy so small – and crap?

Feargal has shown what can be achieved when someone with a national voice shouts loud. We need someone to do the same in the fight against litter

Badenoch, for all her anti-woke diatribes, is the wrong kind of Tory rightist. She will lead them defeat, and quite possibly eclipse by Reform

Farmers are a short-term risk, but Labour’s biggest task is getting impatient Britain to buy into the power of long-term investment

The president-elect wants to drag the world back to the 1930s with his trade wars

There is a central explanation for Trump’s victory – and it is not a comfortable one

The new leader of the opposition had her first Commons joust with the PM today and scored a resounding diplomatic victory. Only trouble – it was against Britain

The EU’s migrant return policy worked for years, and access to a fingerprint database is a very distant second-best

The Reform leader is out campaigning for Donald Trump after lambasting Labour staffers for doing similar for Kamala Harris

The hard right has achieved political power across Europe. British politics now faces exactly the same risk

The new Conservative leader appears to recall growing up in a very different Nigeria to the one which existed

Concerns over youth mobility and Northern Ireland are growing in Brussels

The new Tory leader has been handed a shaky mandate by a depleted party rooted in deep denial

One Leaver says she’s still glad she voted for it... but there’s a good reason for that

There is no economic justification for all farmers passing their estates on to their children tax-free

The short-lived former PM has once again popped up in Budget week to offer her wise counsel

Stirring things up over this summer’s riots is bad, demanding that former colonies doff the cap is arguably even worse

£100,000 for breaching impartiality rules is nothing to the loss-making channel

The Budget largely avoided tough choices as the new chancellor put pressure on Wes Streeting by throwing cash at the NHS