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Two of Westminster's best-connected journalists, Sky News's Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard, guide you through their top predictions for the next seven..
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The number of migrants that have crossed the Channel in small boats is at its highest ever level for the first four months of the year.
2 hours ago • Sky News

The defection of an MP - who works as an NHS doctor - from the Tories to the Labour Party shows that only Sir Keir Starmer can be "trusted" with the health..
11 hours ago • Sky News

Humza Yousaf will refuse to enter an electoral pact with Alex Salmond's party that could have seen the SNP step aside in some Scottish seats, Sky News..
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Conservative MP and former health minister Dan Poulter has defected to Labour in frustration at the worsening NHS crisis.
1 day ago • Sky News

We have been warned. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pre-election pitch to voters this week was to place the nation on "war footing".
2 days ago • Sky News

Rishi Sunak has failed to rule out holding a general election in July, as speculation remains rife over the timing of the national vote.
19 hours ago • Sky News

I've known Rishi Sunak slightly for almost a decade, having first met him after he penned a thoughtful, comprehensive, well-received report on Britain's..
21 hours ago • Sky News

Rishi Sunak has failed to rule out holding a general election in July, as speculation remains rife over the timing of the national vote.
19 hours ago • Sky News

Conservative MP and former health minister Dan Poulter has defected to Labour.
1 day ago • Sky News

Migrants travelling to Ireland after arriving in the UK on small boats is a sign the Rwanda scheme is already working as a deterrent, Rishi Sunak has said. 
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has commented after he was chased by demonstrators as he left a speaking engagement at Cardiff University. 
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Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf claims a Holyrood election could be called as he refuses to say if he will resign if he loses a looming vote of no..
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The 2 May local elections will have more than 2,600 seats at stake across 107 English councils. Labour's Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham are among the 10 mayors up..
2 days ago • Sky News

Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf is battling to save his job as he faces a knife-edge no-confidence vote.
2 days ago • Sky News

A defiant Humza Yousaf has told Sky News he will not resign as Scotland's first minister.
2 days ago • Sky News

Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf is to cancel a speech he was due to deliver on independence in Glasgow this lunchtime, Sky News undertands.
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The threat of deportation to Rwanda is causing migrants to head for Ireland instead of the UK, Ireland's deputy prime minister has said.
3 days ago • Sky News

This has become a political bloodbath for Humza Yousaf.
3 days ago • Sky News

The outgoing chief executive of the UK's climate committee is warning the continued politicisation of net zero will end up hurting the economy, but so will..
3 days ago • Sky News

Voters in Grimsby - one of Sky News's election Target Towns - have been offering their views on politics, politicians and "broken promises".
3 days ago • Sky News

Today's rail plan by Labour is a landmark moment. 
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More than 115,000 asylum seekers will be trapped in "permanent limbo" by the end of the year as a result of the government's flagship Rwanda plan, according to a..
3 days ago • Sky News

Labour have promised to renationalise nearly all passenger railways within their first term if they win the next election. But will it leave the railways..
3 days ago • Sky News

The Scottish Greens will not support Scotland's first minister in a confidence vote next week after they were sacked as government ministers earlier today.
3 days ago • Sky News

Labour has denied the railways will be given "lower priority" if they are brought back into public ownership as the party pledged to "sweep away" the current..
4 days ago • Sky News

The government's controversial Rwanda bill has finally become law after it received royal assent today.
3 days ago • Sky News

The SNP and Scottish Greens power-sharing deal has formally ended following a row over a climbdown on climate targets, Sky News understands.
3 days ago • Sky News

The morning after the 2019 general election, Boris Johnson pledged to people in the North East who had voted Conservative for the first time that he and the..
4 days ago • Sky News

June gives me a wry smile when I ask her if she trusts politicians. But it soon fades.
4 days ago • Sky News

Labour will promise to deliver the biggest shake-up to rail "in a generation" by establishing the long-delayed Great British Railways (GBR) organisation and..
4 days ago • Sky News

This was a trip with two aims: to refocus the world's attention on Ukraine and announce a big boost in defence spending - with an eye, of course, on national..
4 days ago • Sky News

MPs have voted in favour of the government's Renters' Reform Bill - despite it including an indefinite delay to the end of no-fault evictions.
4 days ago • Sky News

Labour's Angela Rayner has attacked the Conservatives for "obsessing" over her living arrangements while renters continue to face uncertainty over the..
4 days ago • Sky News

Rishi Sunak has insisted his uplift in defence spending is "fully funded" after Labour branded the announcement a pre-election "gimmick".
4 days ago • Sky News

The government's free childcare programme risks "jeopardising quality", a report has found, as campaigners warn urgent action is needed to satisfy the otherwise..
4 days ago • Sky News

Everyone in England and Wales will have some sort of vote to cast on 2 May, with elections for local councillors, mayors, police and crime commissioners - and..
5 days ago • Sky News

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said he wants the new NATO target for defence spending to be 2.5% of gross domestic product rather than the current 2%.
4 days ago • Sky News

Frank Field, the former Labour MP and minister, has died at the age of 81.
4 days ago • Sky News

Many Conservative councillors face certain defeat on 2 May. The party will lose control of councils at the same time. The scale of this setback, so close to the..
5 days ago • Sky News

More than 100 MPs have earned over £10,000 a year as landlords over the course of this parliament, research from Sky News has found.
5 days ago • Sky News

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, will appear in court this morning charged with rape and other historical sex offences.
5 days ago • Sky News

On the plane from Warsaw to Berlin, Rishi Sunak was buoyant as he briefly chatted to the travelling pack. 
5 days ago • Sky News

After months of parliamentary ping-pong between the House of Commons and the Lords, Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill has passed.
5 days ago • Sky News

The Rwanda bill that ministers hope will curb the number of small boats crossing the Channel "raises major concerns", a leading human rights official has said as..
5 days ago • Sky News

Rishi Sunak is to increase UK defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030 as he warns European allies that the continent is at a "turning point" in the face of the..
5 days ago • Sky News

The UK will increase defence spending to 2.5% of national income by 2030, the prime minister is expected to announce in a hardening of military policy at a time..
5 days ago • Sky News

After months of delay, parliamentary bickering and legal challenges, Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill is set to become law.
5 days ago • Sky News

Rishi Sunak warned the world is now "more volatile and dangerous" than at any time since the Cold War, as the prime minister embarked on a trip to Poland and..
5 days ago • Sky News

The Welsh government is set to announce changes to the default 20mph speed limit.
5 days ago • Sky News

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