Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports on the assisted dying bill that's been passed through Parliament and the ...

Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports on the Iran / Isreat conflict and Rachel Reeve's spending review.

Problem is, there’s not enough to go round. No surprise in itself, but the lamentable extent of the shortfall is becoming increasingly apparent. And pleas for more are fast turning into demands, with ...

Karl Marx’s suggestion that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, doesn’t seem quite right, because this summer’s threatened wave of strikes doesn’t feel particularly funny. But ...

There’s no doubt that we’re easing our way back towards the European fold. After accidentally voting ourselves into the wilderness we’re being gently guided into chummier territory. But at the same ...

With the world’s military and economic apparatus feeling fragile in Donald Trump’s hands, the Prime Minister is clearly channelling Winston Churchill’s famous wartime slogan. As our Political ...

The government’s central push, to grow the economy and so put more money in all our pockets, is facing a hefty push back – from the Bank of England. It’s also in danger of getting drowned out ...

Any minute now a convicted criminal who also stands accused of fostering insurrection will become the most powerful person in the world. The one thing we do know about him is that we don’t know, ever, ...

There’s something unreal about the British government trying to get on with running things at home while all the time peeping anxiously over the parapet at events unfolding across The Pond. As our ...

That slogan, in the run-up to World War Two, was the then government’s way of saying brace yourselves because it is what it is, however unpalatable. Which Trump’s triumph manifestly is to most of us ...

On both sides of The Pond people are thinking about what’s in or may soon not be in their back pockets. For starters. It’s a nerve-wracking time Stateside, and uncomfortable here too. But, as our ...