UK Politics

  • 30 May 2017

    An audience of under-30s and over-60s debate security and terrorism following the Manchester attack.

  • 29 May 2017

    For the last year the celebrated transvestite potter Grayson Perry has been exploring the divisions that lead to last June’s Brexit vote. But do they still define us? Perry has a new documentary tomorrow night on Channel 4 – and a new piece of work – two vases representing “leave” and “remain”. And he’s been…

  • 29 May 2017

    Theresa May has been defending her record on security at a campaign event in Twickenham today – claiming she had excluded more hate preachers from the country as Home Secretary than ever before. But is the issue proving so important to voters – or are they still making decisions on the bedrock issues like health,…

  • 26 May 2017

    The election campaign got back into full swing today, with polls showing that the Conservative lead over Labour is narrowing. This morning, Jeremy Corbyn drew a link between the UKs involvement in foreign wars and terrorism at home – arguing that British foreign policy had to change. The Conservatives accused him of a “totally inappropriate…

  • 25 May 2017

    Campaigning for the General Election resumed at a national level today when the United Kingdom Independence Party launched their manifesto – having postponed it yesterday. The document promises significant increases in police and military personnel, billions extra for the NHS and a commitment to reduce net migration to zero. Yet in the light of Monday’s…

  • 16 May 2017

    Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi has been going through the figures in detail and looking at the effect of Labour’s tax plans on business.

  • 16 May 2017

    Jeremy Corbyn has launched Labour’s manifesto with pledges to make the richest pay more tax. Mr Corbyn said it would fund billions of pounds in new spending on education, health and social care, scrap university tuition fees and renationalise the railways, Royal Mail, and public utilities. Some critics called it a return to the 70s,…

  • 16 May 2017

    Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry, is challenged on her party’s election manifesto. Would working-age benefits be frozen? Where are the costings for renationalisation? Do Labour’s plans depend on higher borrowing?

  • 15 May 2017

    Karen King, a Lib Dem councillor; Lynn Pallister, a Labour councillor; Glenn Preedy, who’s chair of UKIP North East; and Steve Turner, a Conservative councillor.

  • 15 May 2017

    Welcome to Redcar, in the heart of the Tees Valley, where unemployment is well above the national average. With the main parties now reaching out to working-class voters, we’ve spent much of the past week here, asking people what this election is all about for them.

  • 15 May 2017

    A “new deal for workers”, including representation on company boards and a year’s statutory leave to care for a relative. This isn’t Labour, but Theresa May, promising what she called the biggest expansion of workers’ rights by any Conservative government.

  • 12 May 2017

    Two years ago Jeremy Corbyn was two hundred to one outsider in the Labour leadership contest. He defied those odds to win. Now he is in another race to be the next Prime Minister – and many say the odds are stacked against him again. According to his devoted supporters, his idealism is exactly what…

  • 12 May 2017

    The former prime minister Tony Blair has said a hard Irish border would be a disaster, with an agreement the best way of limiting damage after Brexit.

  • 12 May 2017

    Cathy Newman asks Jeremy Corbyn: When in the last half century has British-backed military action been necessary?

  • 12 May 2017

    Jeremy Corbyn has insisted he is no pacifist, as he set out his view of Britain’s role in the world, accusing Theresa May of “pandering” to Donald Trump. Theresa May hit back, declaring Mr Corbyn was simply “not up to the job” of being prime minister. Michael Crick was at the other end of the…