A proposed law compelling the UK to meet new legally binding targets on climate change and protecting nature has failed to clear its first hurdle in the House of Commons. The government won a motion, by

The UK should be excluded from the tariffs Donald Trump is threatening to impose on exports to the US, the business secretary has said. Jonathan Reynolds told the BBC that the US has no goods trade

The cost of replacing more than 2,000 MPs and political staff after the election reached £52.8m, the body managing MPs’ pay has revealed. Nearly all of that was spent on closing down former MPs’ offices and

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband has said he will not resign if the government backs a third runway at Heathrow Airport – despite being a long-time opponent of it. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is

Plans to abolish non-dom status will be amended to allow a more generous phase out of tax benefits, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced. Reeves told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos that changes

Sainsbury’s has announced it will cut 3,000 jobs as it shuts down its remaining cafés and closes its patisserie and pizza counters. The supermarket says the move will “simplify the business”, adding that most Sainsbury’s shoppers

Major infrastructure projects like nuclear power stations, railway lines and wind farms will be built faster under new planning rules, the government has pledged. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Nimby (Not in My Back Yard)

Closing all of Parliament’s bars could lead to greater security risks for MPs, the leader of the House of Commons has suggested. Lucy Powell said she was open to “having a debate” on the future of

The prime minister has been urged to close a legal loophole as online images of child sex abuse hit a record high in 2014. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a charity that removes child abuse images,

The government has ordered offshore energy firms to avoid “noisy” detonations when disposing of unexploded bombs on the seabed, in a bid to protect vulnerable marine life. There are still more than 300,000 pieces of unexploded

Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots said MLAs had a “very loose interpretation of smart” Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in the Northern Ireland Assembly have been given a dressing down by the Speaker. On Tuesday, during

A public inquiry will be held into the Southport attacks, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced. It comes after Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to killing Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva

Lord Peter Mandelson, the next UK ambassador to the US, has praised Donald Trump and said his will be “one of the most consequential” presidencies in modern times. In an article for Fox News, he hailed

Shop sales in the UK unexpectedly fell in the run up to Christmas due to a “very poor month” for food being sold in supermarkets, adding to concerns over the health of the UK economy. Sales

The UK has not carried out a single conviction for breaches of Russian sanctions, the National Crime Agency has said. Financial sanctions on Russia were introduced following the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the wider

Rachel Reeves has said she will not let critics “get me down” following a bumpy few days for the UK economy. The chancellor was speaking to the BBC’s Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast towards the

“We couldn’t just leave it” is how one senior figure in government put it to me. In other words, the political reality was that demonstrable action was essential: ministers realised they had to act because for

There is no need for new City minister Emma Reynolds to step back from any duties because of her lobbying past, Downing Street has said. Reynolds has taken over the role from Tulip Siddiq, who resigned

The UK should negotiate a new customs union deal with the European Union, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has said. In a speech in London, he argued it was needed to boost Britain’s economy and

Watch: Home Secretary outlines government’s plan to tackle grooming gangs Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans for a nationwide review of grooming gang evidence and five government-backed local inquiries. She stopped short of launching a

Police are investigating a report that a woman had her drink spiked in one of the bars in the Houses of Parliament. The parliamentary researcher reported her drink had been tampered with to bar staff and

UK inflation unexpectedly dipped in December for the first time in three months as hotel prices fell and tobacco costs eased. Prices rose 2.5% in the year to December, down from 2.6% the month before, the

The government is expected to reactivate a piece of legislation aimed at protecting free speech on university campuses. The Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act, which could have seen universities fined for failing to uphold freedom

Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned after growing pressure over an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh. She had referred herself to the prime minister’s standards adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, after questions about links to her aunt, who

A stuttering economy, spiralling government borrowing costs, plummeting approval ratings: little wonder perhaps senior ministers, not least the chancellor, aren’t wasting many smiles these days. Remember too Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are the duo

Tulip Siddiq has been urged to stand aside from the anti-corruption aspects of her ministerial role by a group of charities. Siddiq, whose role as Treasury economic secretary includes tackling corruption in UK financial markets, has

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has met survivors of grooming gangs in Oldham and Rotherham, describing the meeting as “quite shocking”. Speaking to GB News, she said it was “extraordinary” hearing victims describe going “to the authorities