The film director turned crossbench peer on battling Big Tech to safeguard children and how losing her voice gave her an insight into power

It might not have been a budget, but the spring statement felt like one.

Lower income households are set to be £500 poorer due to benefit cuts and a weak economic outlook, a thinktank has found.

Government whips will be overestimating the number of Labour rebels over welfare cuts as a form of "expectation management", Dame Harriet Harman has said.

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Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic's editor in chief, reports he was accidentally added to an encrypted messaging group. The conversation appeared to include vice president JD Vance, defence secretary Pet...

There is plenty of blame to go around for the leaked group chat, but Peter Hegseth and Mike Waltz will be feeling particularly uncomfortable

There is plenty of blame to go around for the leaked group chat, but Peter Hegseth and Mike Waltz will be feeling particularly uncomfortable

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will update the country on her plans for the economy during the spring statement on 26 March. We challenged Beth Rigby and Ed Conway to explain what might happen in 45 seconds...

Customers with few alternatives complain of ‘price gouging’ after flights cancelled

Rachel Reeves is likely to promise the government will go "further and faster" to boost economic growth when she delivers her spring statement on Wednesday - but spending cuts loom large.

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The chancellor is expected to make billions of pounds in spending cuts in her spring statement in order to keep to her self-imposed fiscal rules.

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This week, Ruth’s changed her opinion about Kemi Badenoch – but it isn’t any more favourable for the new Tory leader. Ruth had thought she’d get two years in the job – now she’s thinking it might be l...

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Secretary of state Marco Rubio says Trump comments should not be seen as ‘hostile move’; Netanyahu says ‘remarkable idea’ should be pursued * UN chief warns against ‘ethnic cleansing’ after Trump’s Gaza proposal * Trump’s Gaza plan could amount to war…

The nominations have been announced for the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2025, in partnership with Dataminr.

Contrary to the US president's claim that many countries have offered to help take Palestinians in, none have done so publicly.

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer need the growth they are promising if they want to have a chance of winning the next election.

Tricky terrain to navigate, the four priorities Starmer will want to try to land with President Trump when he gets an audience in the coming weeks are - Ukraine, the Middle East, tariffs and trade.

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The Southport attack, in which three young girls died and eight other children were injured, falls outside the definition of terrorism because police couldn't identify the killer's motive.

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The prime minister told Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby that the conflict with Russia was not just about "sovereignty in Ukraine" but about the impact it also had on the UK, including the cost o...

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City minister Tulip Siddiq has left government after becoming embroiled in a corruption scandal. Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves has faced MPs for the first time since Number 10 guaranteed she would remain c...

City minister Tulip Siddiq has left government after becoming embroiled in a corruption scandal. Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves has faced MPs for the first time since Number 10 guaranteed she would remain c...

Tulip Siddiq has resigned as a government minister amid a number of corruption probes in Bangladesh.

Political editors of national broadcasters have two main jobs. One is to stick to the Prime Minister like glue, following them on foreign trips, covering speeches and Commons appearances to document N...

Political powerhouses Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson and Harriet Harman unite to unravel the spin and explain what’s really going on in Westminster and beyond.Every episode, they will examine politicians, ...