Mel Stride said there must be no suggestion of the UK going back into the EU single market or customs union.   15:46 ...

Rachel Reeves said post-financial crash regulation has "gone too far" and set a course for cutting red tape in her first ...

Bad decisions | The UK Home Office under the Conservatives rushed the acquisition of a derelict former prison to detain asylum seekers, paying more than double what it cost the vendors, according to ...

Downing Street has apologised after meat and alcohol were served at last month's Diwali reception. Meanwhile, Baroness Harman ...

Sir Keir Starmer, whose Labour Government has made clean energy a key plank of its plans for the UK, has headed to the Cop29 ...

There have been several awkward stumbles in the relationship between the once-and-future president and his British ...

The defection of Councillor Justice means Reform will be heading into that election with four Nottinghamshire councillors and one Nottinghamshire MP in the form of Lee Anderson. Mr Anderson was ...

The prime minister, who has put a revival of relations with Brussels at the heart of his mission, will attend 106th anniversary of the Armistice of 1918 in Paris on Monday, becoming the first UK ...

where the two leaders agreed to “strengthen the relationship” between the UK and the EU. They also held talks at a meeting of the European Political Community last week. Donald Trump was ...

Peggy Grande, who was a political appointee for Donald Trump, told The Independent he is likely to give a “preferential trade deal to the UK” and she thinks tariffs will “more greatly affect ...

Read the Independent political editor David Maddox’s full analysis of what a Trump presidency means for Starmer and the UK ...