The Japanese stock market has surged to a record high as Sanae Takaichi, the country’s prime minister, prepares to gamble on ...

Japan will go to the polls in February for a general election after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called a snap poll today.

Traditionally, Labour has been reluctant to sack its leader, but if the May elections turn out to be as bad as the polls ...

Plans to postpone local elections are a democratic disgrace – but they are also a political mistake, writes John Rentoul ...

At 88, Dr Miriam Stoppard says intimacy only gets better with age and urges older people to ditch the stigma and rediscover ...

henever a government U-turns, a familiar response ensues. The media report the decision as a “humiliation” for the prime ...

The explosive clash between Kemi Badenoch and her highly ambitious de facto deputy is a compelling drama worthy of the BBC’s ...

Robert Jenrick defected to Reform UK on Thursday after Tory leader Kemi Badenoch sacked him from the shadow cabinet.

After several decades of closer integration with the US, the country’s prime minister is pushing large infrastructure ...

The leader of Britain’s Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, said she had ousted Robert Jenrick for “plotting in secret” to defect ...

Elin Jones has been in the Senedd for 27 years and hopes to be to be elected for a seventh time in May's election ...

Dr Mohammed Al Qudsi, a pioneering media figure who announced the UAE's union in 1971, has passed away, leaving behind a ...