Gary Gibbon , Political Editor

The first time Donald Trump became president, Theresa May was the first foreign leader to visit. Her trip, seven days after his inauguration, was memorable for the awkward images of him holding her hand as they walked through the White House. 

Our political editor Gary Gibbon explains what led to the government’s anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq’s resignation.

Britain will be an “AI superpower” according to Sir Keir Starmer as he launched the government’s artificial intelligence action plan this morning.

Labour has used its huge majority to vote down a Conservative call for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs.

Starmer’s speech was supposed to be all about his plans to cut NHS waiting lists. Instead the Prime Minister was forced to defend himself after a week of increasingly rabid online attacks by Elon Musk.

The government has been accused of a “bizarre and totally unjustified decision” – after rejecting compensation payments to women born in the 1950s who were not properly warned that their pension age was being increased – dubbed the WASPIs.

Chinese businessman Yang Tengbo –  who has links to Prince Andrew – has denied allegations that he is a spy.

More building will be allowed on the green belt under a major shake-up of the planning rules unveiled today by the Prime Minister.

Sir Keir Starmer, on a tour of the Gulf, said Assad’s departure was an opportunity for the country, but has warned that the fall of other brutal regimes in the past had resulted in violence not peace. 

The Prime Minister set out six missions for the government this morning, insisting that it would drive them forward to make the promised changes a reality.

The effort to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales has cleared its first hurdle in parliament.

Tomorrow, MPs must decide which side to take in one of the most significant debates they will face in this parliament – whether to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults.

He was a giant of the Labour movement, famous for his working class roots, his refusal to play by any rules and for the time he once punched a protestor who lobbed an egg at him during an election trip to North Wales.

Thousands of miles away at the G20 summit in Brazil Sir Keir Starmer said Ukraine must be put in the strongest possible position to win.

Sir Keir Starmer has met President Xi at the G20 summit in Rio – saying he wants Britain to have a “serious and pragmatic” relationship with China.