Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports on the sacking of Peter Mandelson due to his close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

With MPs back at Westminster after the hols, hair neatly brushed and shoes nicely polished, the head boy and girl are getting ...

A survey conducted by an even-handed pollster last week suggested three-quarters of us think this government is at least as chaotic as the last lot. And it’s easy to see how this narrative has taken ...

It must have struck the Prime Minister as the sort of birthday when you hate all the presents, half your mates have got the measles and the picnic in the park is rained off anyway. Exactly one year on ...

Rarely has the air in Westminster felt more heavily laced with unreality. Even as epoch-making decisions are being made and maybe unmade by MPs and peers, the spectre of war somehow makes all their ...

The tinderbox trauma in the Middle East is a chilling display of the limits to any government’s financial power, anywhere in the world. Just as Chancellor Rachel Reeves finally seems to be getting her ...

Karl Marx’s suggestion that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, doesn’t seem quite right, because this summer’s threatened wave of strikes doesn’t feel particularly funny. But ...

There’s no doubt that we’re easing our way back towards the European fold. After accidentally voting ourselves into the wilderness we’re being gently guided into chummier territory. But at the same ...

Everything’s up for grabs. The British economy, our relations with Europe, and, in coming days, the biggest litmus test yet of the Labour government. As our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s doing his utmost to get the Ukrainian and American Presidents back on the same page. A lot of talks with a lot of people, but the signs are he’s gradually making progress. As our ...

With Parliament reopening this week as well as schools, MPs will be sitting up especially straight, because the silly season never really happened. Meaning they’ll have an unusually huge pile of ...

Now that Keir Starmer’s managed even longer in the top job than Liz Truss, he’s learning the hard way exactly what a mountain he has to climb. The rows rage on about how much he knew in advance about ...