Politics

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has arrived in Iceland for a Council of Europe summit where he’s been pushing for closer coordination to deal with illegal migrants.

The former Conservative cabinet minister Jacob Rees Mogg has claimed that the new voter ID rules “came back to bite” the Tories in the local elections earlier this month.

We spoke to Harun Armagan, who is from President Erdogan’s ruling AK party.

Turkey’s President Erdogan is headed for his – and his country’s – first presidential runoff vote.

Conservative divisions over the rising level of legal immigration have been on full public display – as the Home Secretary Suella Braverman told a conference of Tory activists that the level of mass migration to the UK was unsustainable.

The head of the Royal College of Nursing says she wants to negotiate a double digit pay increase for her members – after the union rejected the Government’s 5% pay deal. Pat Cullen called on ministers to re-open talks, saying she was proud of the determination shown by nurses, who’ve taken strike action in England…

We spoke to Asla Aydintashbash who’s a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and is currently in Istanbul. We asked her about Turkey’s future after the election.

Voting has ended in Turkey’s closest election in recent history and it’s looking as if there was a huge turnout. Voters were faced with a stark choice – whether President Erodgan should continue to lead the country down the path of one man rule – or a shift back to parliamentary democracy under his opposition…

Israeli forces say they’ve killed another senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, after the militant group fired another barrage of rockets from Gaza into southern Israel for a fifth day running. The fighting so far has killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and one woman in central Israel.  Egypt is still leading efforts to broker…

Millions of voters will go to the polls tomorrow in Turkey, where tomorrow’s election is set to be the closest fought for decades. The opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is mounting a serious challenge to the man who has dominated Turkish politics for twenty years – President Erdogan. The two men have starkly different visions of…

The local MP in Bournemouth, where today’s conference is taking place, is Tobias Ellwood. He’s declined the new group’s invitation to take back control from the leadership.

They say they want their party back – and that they’re the true voice of the Conservative grassroots. Disillusioned Tory activists – many still upset that Boris Johnson is no longer in charge – have been rallying behind a new group called the Conservative Democratic Organisation. The former prime minister sent a video message to…

After another interest rate hike – there is a lot of discussion about what it means for mortgages and renters.

At first Adam Price stayed on as leader of Plaid Cymru despite the publication last week of a damning report which found a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny in his party.

We spoke to Iain Martin, a columnist for the Times, who was in favour of Brexit.