Politics

Last August, Jacob Blake’s 29 year old son, also called Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in front of his children and left paralysed by a police officer in Kenosha as he resisted arrest and was in possession of a folding pocket-knife. It led to massive protests in which two people were killed. That officer,…

In the Derek Chauvin trial lawyers are trying to argue that drugs and a heart condition contributed to George Floyd’s death, and not the more than nine minutes that the former police officer knelt on his neck. But this whole trial has been overshadowed by the rising tensions over the death of a young Black…

After Donald Trump’s erratic policies, Joe Biden appears keen to reset military relations with Nato and Europe.

A senior civil servant advised the scandal-hit finance firm Greensill Capital while he was still working in Whitehall, it’s emerged today.

The Liberal Democrat peer who helped to change the face of centre-left politics in the UK, Baroness Shirley Williams, has died at the age of 90.

We talk to the political strategist LaTosha Brown, who’s the co-founder of the Black Voters Matter group.

In the United States, a new wave of Black Lives Matter protests are beginning around the country at the killing of a young black man by police.

Pubs across the country have certainly been busy today and we are at one outdoor venue in Manchester.

Pints are being poured, hair is being cut, tills are ringing in the shops, and al fresco meals are being served, as one of the world’s longest and most stringent lockdowns finally came to an end.

We spoke to Dr Hannah White, from the Institute for Government and Lord Myners, who was financial services secretary under Gordon Brown.

The government has ordered an independent inquiry into the lobbying work by former Prime Minister David Cameron on behalf of the finance firm Greensill Capital, which has now gone into administration.

Is the AstraZeneca jab safe? Spoiler alert: yes, probably. So why has it been dominating the headlines for weeks? And do broken promises and missed targets mean that the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccination is under threat? 

Now Sir Alan Duncan left government in 2019, after working in Westminster for nearly three decades as an MP and government minister. His diaries are now being published in a book out next week. ‘In the Thick of It’ covers the fall of two prime ministers and the fallout of the Brexit referendum with acerbic…

We spoke to Sir Alistair Graham, who was Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life from 2003 to 2007 and began by asking him what he made of these new developments.

The Health Secretary Matt Hancock had a “private drink” with the former Prime Minister David Cameron and the financier Lex Greensill in 2019 to discuss a payment scheme which was later rolled out in the NHS, it’s been revealed. It’s added to the growing questions surrounding Mr Cameron’s role in lobbying for the company, which…