Politics

We spoke to the former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg who served in the cabinet under Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, and is now a presenter on GB News.

We spoke to the transport minister Huw Merriman about today’s cabinet reshuffle.

David Cameron said he was returning to the front benches because he “believes in public service” – as he began his first day in office as Foreign Secretary, the most surprising appointment in the Prime Minister’s widespread Government reshuffle. Of Rishi Sunak’s three top ministers, only Jeremy Hunt kept the job he had when he…

We spoke to Tobias Ellwood, a Conservative MP and former Veterans Minister, and began by asking him how veterans felt about the scenes at the Cenotaph on Saturday.

Conditions continue to deteriorate at major hospitals across northern Gaza, cut off by the intense fighting between Israel and Hamas. A Palestinian official says three premature babies have now died at Gaza’s biggest hospital, al-Shifa, because there is no power for incubators. And the second biggest, al-Quds, has suspended operations. Israel continues to bomb supposedly…

We were joined by Steve Hartshorn, who’s chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has blamed the Home Secretary for the unrest, saying Suella Braverman’s comments had made the police’s job much harder. Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has called for her to resign – saying she had emboldened the far-right. She hasn’t commented.

They were branded “hate marchers” by the Home Secretary. But a controversial pro-Palestinian march through London went ahead and drew hundreds of thousands of protesters, in one of the largest demonstrations the capital has seen in years. The ‘vast majority’ of arrests were from Far-Right counter protestors who clashed with police. But Michael Gove needed…

Boris Johnson’s former chief of staff has confirmed to the Covid Inquiry that early in the pandemic the then-prime minister offered to be injected with virus on television, to show it did not pose a threat. The inquiry also heard that he referred to “whiskey and a revolver” and spoke about “medieval measures” to tackle…

We speak to Orit Farkash-Hacohen – an Israeli politician and former minister who’s currently a member of the Knesset for Benny Gantz’s National Unity party.

It’s the last King’s Speech before the next general election, which polls suggest the Conservatives are on course to lose. But is it likely to change anyone’s minds? Our Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara looks at how the King’s Speech has gone down in two marginal constituencies, Stevenage and Mansfield.

Many view the King’s Speech as Rishi Sunak trying to show voters the clear difference between him and the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. We speak to the Shadow Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Secretary, Thangam Debbonaire.

We spoke to Prisons minister Damian Hinds, and asked him How tough on crime is the government’s agenda?

Campaigners and senior politicians are angry that the government appears to have shelved long-promised legislation to modernise the Mental Health Act. They’d been calling for a new law to outlaw inappropriate detention of people with learning disabilities. A white paper was published nearly three years ago.

It was the first King’s Speech in 72 years – and at its heart was law and order. Tougher sentences for murderers and rapists, but also a presumption against jailing offenders for less than 12 months. It included measures to increase oil and gas production, phasing out the sale of cigarettes – and a ban…