Bridget Phillipson
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Tell us how you’re going to fund defence, Badenoch urges chancellor ahead of Budget
Conservative leader accuses Labour of seeking to kick tough decisions on spending into long grass
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Badenoch takes aim at Healey over public finances ahead of Budget
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Labour was seeking to kick tough decisions on spending into the long grass.
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Reform candidate filmed saying asylum seekers should be put in ‘concentration camps’
Would-be MP recorded telling undercover reporter in ITV investigation that Muslims could not be British
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Reform activist says asylum seekers should be put in 'concentration camps'
He also said that being Muslim and British is ‘like oil and water’
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Reform tells councillors to consider equalities despite pledge to scrap Equality Act
Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s party has said it will repeal the act ‘on day one’ if it wins the next election
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Farage secretly filmed letting off Reform candidate accused of racist slur
ITV captured a conversation between Nigel Farage and the party’s director of communications on a mayoral candidate accused of racism
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Reform faces questions over candidate vetting after undercover filming
Reform UK says the party has "improved and prioritised its vetting procedures".
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Farage accused of ‘protecting’ Reform candidate over racist slurs against David Lammy
Exclusive: ITV investigation shows leader stood by mayoral candidate who said Labour MP should ‘go home to the Caribbean’
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Sheffield Council at risk of collapse over Labour Zionism ultimatum to Greens
Sheffield City Council is at risk of falling apart after the Labour Party ordered its local branches to end any power-sharing arrangements with the Greens, unless local councillors disavowed the controversial Zionism is racism motion.
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Labour to end local coalitions with Greens if they do not condemn Zionism policy
Andy Burnham has ruled out a future power-sharing deal with the Green Party but it was unclear whether this would extend to local councils
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Reform suspends members after undercover investigation exposes racist views
One Reform councillor called for King Charles to be beheaded, saying he was a Muslim
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Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and extreme comments
Party faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist views
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Reform suspends members after undercover investigation exposes racist views
One Reform councillor called for King Charles to be beheaded, saying he was a Muslim
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Darlington MP says women need more help to tackle violence amid national 'epidemic'
Darlington women and girls need more help to tackle violence, the town's MP has warned, as police figures reveal thousands of sexual offences across the region.
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Children and women included in Reform plan to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers
Farage’s party says it would ‘embed’ immigration enforcement in UK and use ‘aerial imaging’ to identify people
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Farage accused of ‘dangerous dog whistle’ with ‘profoundly un-British’ asylum plan
Campaigners have also questioned the legality of the policy, comparing it to a proposal to ‘scrap the NHS so that people no longer get sick’
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Reform would suspend asylum system for parliamentary term if in government
All asylum applications would be rejected and existing ones voided, with all claimants marked for deportation.
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Andy Burnham says public execution is ‘abhorrent’ as US plans firing squad livestream
Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan is set to be executed by firing squad in December
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Zack Polanski vows to stay as Green leader as he faces criticism after by-election defeat
Jewish Greens' leader has said Polanski should resign in the wake of a Zionism row and by-election defeat.
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US plans to execute ex-army major ‘disturbing’, Phillipson says
Nidal Malik Hasan is due to be executed after he was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base in 2009
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‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation
Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live
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Polanski defends leadership of Greens and says he will not step down after byelection defeat by Labour – UK politics live
Sagal Abdi-Wali defeats Green party leader Zack Polanski to retain the Holborn and St Pancras seat for Labour
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will reassure Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for left of British politics
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Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes
Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.
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Tories accused of prioritising rich voters as Badenoch lays out inheritance tax cut plan
Party hopes to win over affluent middle-class voters as leader rejects calls to ‘unite the right’ in conference speech
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Reform internal inquiry says party did not break law over donations sting
Officials were recorded by undercover journalists discussing a potential way to secure foreign donations to the party.
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Labour figures rule out working with Greens after ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
Minister says they could not see parties cooperating, while official says coalition should be formally ruled out
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Badenoch suggests Tories would not reverse Labour’s pensions triple lock legislation – UK politics live
In his party conference speech last week, Andy Burnham said he wanted to change the triple lock uprating mechanism from 2030
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Chief Rabbi attacks 'Zionism is racism' vote as Polanski banned from Israel
The leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, has been banned from entering Israel after his party passed a controversial resolution declaring ‘Zionism as racist’.
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Tories pledge tax cuts in free-market revival
The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has suggested that reducing inheritance tax would be ‘morally right’ as her shadow chancellor pledged to tear up regulations and slash taxes
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Tensions exposed among Greens by 'Zionism is racism' conference vote
What may be troubling for the Greens institutionally is what this episode reveals about some of the dynamics in the party.
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Burnham facing calls to rule out coalition with Greens after ‘Zionism is racism’ row
Exclusive: PM told motion should disqualify party from major public office
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Bridget Phillipson accuses Badenoch of wanting to scrap the minimum wage
The Labour chair reignited a feud with Kemi Badenoch after highlighting comments in the Tory leader’s The Right Way pamphlet
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Tories vow to scrap Natural England as part of red tape ‘bonfire’
Mr Griffith is due to outline these economic proposals at the Tory annual conference in Birmingham
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Jewish Greens chair says she could leave party over 'Zionism is racism' motion
The motion, which has divided senior party figures, backs a "single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine".
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I don’t need a lecture on women’s safety from Labour, says shadow women’s minister
Exclusive: Shadow women and equalities secretary Joy Morrissey tells The Independent why she refuses to break the link between women’s safety and immigration
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I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.
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Tories pledge to build 50,000 new prison places
The party says its proposals would stop prisoners being released early and cut crime.
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Tories pledge to slash overseas aid budget to fund 50,000 prison places
The Tories said their plans would see the vast majority of extra spaces created over the course of a single Parliament and the full increase would be complete within seven years
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England school inspections to be overhauled again after barrage of complaints
Exclusive: Education secretary sends Ofsted back to ‘drawing board’ as teachers raise serious concerns about new system
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Yvette Cooper to create national maternity plan after Lucy Letby scandal
The health secretary is said to be ‘shocked’ that no maternity services plan has been in place since 2012 and hospitals do not track the deaths of babies and children
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Reform UK leapfrogs Labour on eve of Burnham’s first conference speech as leader
The YouGov poll shows Reform support rising by four points to 25 per cent, one ahead of Labour on 24 per cent
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Healey needs to cut welfare. But he’s learnt from Starmer’s failures
The chancellor used his Labour conference speech to retable Rachel Reeves’ welfare cuts – but in an authentic Labour way, political editor David Maddox writes
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Labour conference live: Burnham says UK ‘needs to draw line’ on Brexit
The prime minister said his vision will leave ‘people able to have hope again’
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Burnham vows to deliver change despite ‘challenging’ economic outlook
The Labour leader unveiled a new help-to-buy scheme for first-time buyers along with support for disabled young people in the hours before the party’s annual conference
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Burnham vows to deliver change despite ‘challenging’ economic outlook
The Labour leader unveiled a new help-to-buy scheme for first-time buyers along with support for disabled young people in the hours before the party’s annual conference
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Burnham insists he can deliver change despite ‘challenging’ circumstances
The Prime Minister has pledged to set Britain on a new trajectory, describing the decade since the Brexit referendum as one of ‘drift and division’
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Burnham unveils new scheme to help young first-time buyers onto housing ladder
Funding for the Your First Home scheme is expected to come from reprioritising existing government budgets
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Tories invite Phillipson to Piddington in violence against women ‘weaponisation’ row
Women and equalities secretary Bridget Phillipson has rejected the invitation from her Tory shadow Joy Morrissey accusing the opposition of ‘political point scoring’
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Newspaper headlines: 'Verdicts that rocked football' and 'Burnham bottles it'
Manchester City being found guilty of financial breaches and the prime minister ruling out an early general election leads Saturday's papers.
