Politics

Boris Johnson has confirmed he will attend COP27 in Egypt next week as question marks remain over whether the UK’s new prime minister will join him. In an exclusive interview for Sky News’ Ukraine: A Modern War programme, the former PM told Mark Austin he was “invited by the Egyptians” to the climate conference. And

A Home Office source has told me the situation at Manston has been a “ticking time bomb” and that the set up there was not designed for people to spend more than a short period of time there.  The site has been designed to accommodate people once they have been taken off boats and processed

We usually get at least a couple of years before I have to explain that “kissed hands on appointment” doesn’t actually mean there was any hand kissing involved. This time it’s been just seven weeks to the day that the Queen waited in the warm at Balmoral, ready to carry out what would be her

Boris Johnson has revealed to a close political ally that he is going to run in the Conservative leadership contest to replace Liz Truss as he seeks a return to Number 10. Tory MP James Duddridge told to Sky News’ chief political correspondent Jon Craig that he had spoken to the former prime minister, who

Home Secretary Suella Braverman launched an attack on the “Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati” as she defended the government’s controversial Public Order Bill. The legislation attempts to crack down on disruptive protests, including a new offence of obstructing major transport networks. Lock-on tactics have been repeatedly employed by groups such as Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil,

The King’s coronation next year “needs to be done properly” despite economic turmoil in the UK, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said. The business secretary told Sky News “we don’t have coronations very often” and disputed that conversations about the cost of the ceremony could be compared to debates about rising wage demands. But Mr Rees-Mogg refused

The Greenpeace protest that disrupted Liz Truss’s Tory party conference speech yesterday actually “did her a few favours” and broke the ice for her, according to a body language expert. Ms Truss was interrupted by two climate demonstrators who shouted: “Who voted for this,” as they held up a banner. “I think she actually became

The new home secretary has vowed to stop small boats crossing the Channel and to find a way to “make the Rwanda scheme work”. Suella Braverman, in her first speech in the job, received a standing ovation at the Conservative Party conference after promising to stop the illegal migrant crossings. “We have got to stop

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has attacked Tory MPs who she claims “staged a coup” against the prime minister over her plan to scrap the 45p tax rate. Speaking at a Telegraph event at the Conservative Party conference, Ms Braverman said she had been “in favour” of the policy and was “disappointed” by the government’s U-turn.

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that April’s National Insurance hike is to be reversed from 6 November. The 1.25 percentage point increase was introduced under former chancellor Rishi Sunak, but during the Tory leadership race Liz Truss pledged to change it. Use our calculator below to see how the change affects you: The Treasury said

Joe Biden will tell Liz Truss she must work with the EU to find a negotiated outcome to the Northern Ireland Protocol row when they meet later today, the White House has said. The US president and the prime minister will hold a delayed meeting in New York on Wednesday, where world leaders have assembled

We’re expecting some sort of mini budget from Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday, with details about help for businesses and individuals.  Liz Truss’s chancellor will set the government’s economic tone on Friday with measures to ease the cost-of-living crisis for individuals and businesses. What can we expect? The chancellor is expected to confirm big announcements including

King Charles III paid tribute to the Queen and said he feels the “weight of history which surrounds us” as he addressed parliament for the first time as monarch. In the speech, he quoted William Shakespeare in a tribute to his late mother, saying: “As Shakespeare said of the earlier Queen Elizabeth, she was a

In a “hot-mic moment” captured by Sky News in 2014, then prime minister David Cameron revealed that the Queen “purred down the line” when he told her a majority of Scots had voted against independence. Mr Cameron privately apologised and later called the remarks “a terrible mistake”. Yet they provided the rarest glimpse of an

Senior MPs have pledged their allegiance to King Charles III in a rare Saturday Commons sitting. Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle was the first to do so. He was followed by Father of the House, the longest serving male MP, Conservative Sir Peter Bottomley. Then came the Mother of the House, the longest serving female

Liz Truss has faced constant tests in the infancy of her premiership.  Forty-eight hours after being appointed by the Queen, the PM had to lead a nation in paying tribute to her. Today the Commons chamber was a sea of black as MPs stood for a minute’s silence, and the prime minister was again tasked

MPs have paid tribute to the Queen in the House of Commons, with Boris Johnson making his first appearance since stepping down as prime minister, asking the public to “think what we asked of her and think what she gave”. His successor, Liz Truss, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and the Speaker, Sir Lindsay

The King told Liz Truss the death of the Queen was a moment he had “been dreading”, as he held his first audience with the prime minister at Buckingham Palace. King Charles III shook Ms Truss’s hand as he welcomed her to the first of what will be their weekly meetings. Discussions between the monarch

Liz Truss’s cabinet is meeting in Downing Street to pay tribute to the Queen. A number of senior ministers, many of whom were only appointed this week, including Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and Education Secretary Kit Malthouse, have arrived for the gathering. A Number 10 spokesperson told Sky News: “The only item [on the agenda]

Prime Minister Liz Truss has led tributes to the Queen following her death, saying she was “the rock on which modern Britain was built”. In an address in Downing Street, Ms Truss, who has only been in Number 10 for 48 hours, said: “Britain is the great country it is today because of her.” She