The UK has historically had a cross-party consensus on the need to tackle climate change among most politicians and voters. Only five MPs voted against the Climate Change Act in 2008, and both Labour ...

Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch are facing off at PMQs for the first time, after the prime minister and leader of the ...

British politics has now entered a new and unpredictable phase. After their party’s smashing defeat at the latest election, ...

The last several Conservative prime ministers have had relatively brief tenures, punctuated by Prime Minister Liz Truss, who ...

You’d think as a black woman Labour MP Dawn Butler would have been cheering from the rafters after Kemi Badenoch was elected ...

“Labour say he’s black. Tories say he’s British.” Yet much of the accompanying text could be repeated today by Kemi ...

Kemi Badenoch’s ascent is partly the result of a deliberate diversifying ... becoming the country’s first major party to ...

She is the first black leader of any major British political party ... “And that instinctively made me think, ‘These are not ...

Listening to her calm, collected voice, I think of everything that made this country great and wonder if we might one day ...

Left-wingers have been unable to countenance a member of an ethnic minority rising to a position of influence while failing ...

Elsewhere, Mel Stride has been appointed shadow Chancellor and Priti Patel has been handed the shadow Foreign Secretary brief ...

The new Tory leader wouldn’t be anywhere near the job had she not been willing to say the kind of things that would see a ...