Category: Politics

Scotland’s police chief has said the force has a “resolute determination” to solve the murder of a banker who was shot on his doorstep exactly 20 years ago. Father-of-two Alistair…

Tanaiste Micheal Martin has said housing and disability issues have been raised constantly during the election campaign and had been the “standout” issues. The Fianna Fail leader said despite criticism…

A top Romanian court has asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first round of the presidential election. The Constitutional Court…

A west Belfast woman who walked into a city centre bar, pulled out an imitation gun and said “I’m in the IRA” was handed a suspended sentence today.

Former Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has suggested the Assisted Dying Bill is racist in a bizarre rant against ex-Prime Minister Lord David Cameron. Abbott, who is opposing measures to…

Nigel Farage has announced the latest Tory defection in a shocking blow to Kemi Badenoch. Just weeks after Badenoch became the leader of the Conservative Party, former Tory minister Andrea…

The head of Age UK has branded the Government’s decision to cut winter fuel allowance for pensioners as a “political error” that will have severe consequences for older people. Speaking…

What’s oozing out of the PA in this welcoming little coastal pub on a nippy autumnal afternoon is the very reason I spent my formative years explaining what I meant…

Hospices and palliative care should be funded “properly” before steps are taken to legalise assisted dying, according to the Church of England’s Commons representative. Labour MP Marsha de Cordova also…

Charities are in “real danger” following the Government’s plans to increase employers’ national insurance contributions, Tory MPs have argued. Shadow culture secretary Stuart Andrew said the Government’s “charity tax” will…