Henry Zeffman,Chief political correspondentandPaul Seddon,Political reporterGetty ImagesThe government has U-turned on its manifesto commitment to offer all workers the right to claim unfair dismissal from their first day in ...

Plans to relax restrictions on new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea will be unveiled on Wednesday under the government's North Sea Strategy.Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce ...

Kate WhannelPolitical reporterPA MediaNewly-elected Green Party leader Zack Polanski will accuse Labour of being "handmaidens" to Reform UK when he addresses his party's autumn conference later today. Polanski will ...

Rival deputy leadership candidates Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell went head-to-head in a hustings at the very end of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.Education Secretary Phillipson and former ...

Getty ImagesEluned Morgan warns voters not to "gamble" on Reform's "divisive noise" or Plaid's "fantasy politics"Labour is facing a "hell of a fight" against the "divisive nationalism" of Plaid ...

Jennifer McKiernan & Becky Mortonpolitical reportersEPAHousing Secretary Steve Reed wears a Build Baby Build capThe construction of three new towns will begin before the next general election, Labour has ...

The prime minister has warned Reform UK "will tear this country apart" ahead of the Labour party conference. Arriving in Liverpool on Saturday, Sir Keir Starmer said Reform's plans ...

Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura KuenssbergBBCSir Keir Starmer achieved what many sage minds in Westminster believed was impossible.Labour smashed itself to bits in 2019. But Sir Keir put the ...

Ed Jamesin Solihull andChloe HughesWest MidlandsJason RichardsJason Richards said thousands or tens of thousands of people could be laid off if there was no positive news from JLRA union ...

A senior Labour MP has said "red flags were missed or ignored" before Peter Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the US, in an emergency debate about his ...

Kate WhannelPolitics reporter andHenry ZeffmanChief political correspondentGetty ImagesLabour MPs are publicly and privately expressing their anger over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK ambassador to the US ...

Pete SaullPolitical editor, BBC East Midlands andIan SkyeBBC News, DerbyPA MediaDame Margaret Beckett was deputy leader of the Labour party from 1992 to 1994The first-ever woman to become deputy ...