Margaret Thatcher’s sometime chancellor Nigel Lawson famously remarked that the NHS is “the closest thing the English people have to a religion”. Certainly, as the UK...
The Treasury is set to make £3.8bn in profit from the intervention the Bank of England made in markets last year. The Bank bought £19.3bn worth...
Sadiq Khan will use a speech this evening to condemn the government’s Brexit damage “denial” and call for a pragmatic debate on rejoining the single market....
Boris Johnson could agree not to challenge Rishi Sunak’s leadership after the local elections in exchange for a safe seat, close allies have claimed. The former...
The economy grew by 0.1% in November, partly aided by the football World Cup, according to official figures which call into question predictions the UK is...
Donald Trump proposed attacking North Korea with a nuclear weapon in meetings with aides and said that the US could blame the attack on another country,...
The temperatures are well below freezing and spindles of snow swirl across the roads as gusts of icy wind cut like a million knives across the...
Boris Johnson has become the number one most donated to MP this parliament after receiving a single donation of one million pounds. Labour leader Sir Keir...
A meeting between civil servants’ unions and the government was a “complete farce” so they will go ahead with their strike, union leaders said. On Wednesday,...
Sadiq Khan will use a speech this evening to condemn the government’s Brexit damage “denial” and call for a pragmatic debate on rejoining the single market....
Russia’s Wagner Group has claimed the body of one of the missing British aid workers in Ukraine has been found. Christopher Parry, 28, and Andrew Bagshaw,...
Australia men’s cricket team has pulled out of matches against Afghanistan over the Taliban’s restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls. The sides were due...
A corrupted file has been blamed for a glitch on the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer system which saw every flight grounded across the US. All outbound...
Two dozen MPs since 2016 have been paid for second jobs through personal service companies they have set up, a Sky News investigation has found. It...
The “scandal” of MPs’ earnings from second jobs and donations exposed by Sky News’ Westminster Accounts project “needs to end” through “root-and-branch” reform, the SNP has...
Andrew Bridgen has become the latest MP in the Commons to lose the whip after he compared the roll-out of COVID vaccines to the Holocaust. But...
Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed “General Armageddon”, has been removed from his role as head of Russia’s war in Ukraine only three months into the job. He has...
The foreign secretary has condemned the planned execution of a British-Iranian dual national by Iran, calling it “a politically motivated act by a barbaric regime”. James...
American football player Damar Hamlin, who collapsed and suffered a cardiac arrest during a game last week, has been released from hospital in Buffalo. Hamlin‘s heart...
Prominent backbencher Andrew Bridgen is no longer a Conservative MP after he compared the COVID vaccine to the Holocaust. Mr Bridgen claimed COVID vaccines “are causing...