UK Politics

Labour government hits out at critics, denouncing it as a ‘shame’ that they are not supporting its progress in forging closer ties with the EU More

Polling for The Independent shows voters are concerned the US may not come to Britain’s aid in the event of an attack by Putin More

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who recently arrived in the UK after years of imprisonment in Egypt, maintains that some of his social media posts have been ‘completely twisted out of their meaning’ More

Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual national, was detained in Egypt in September 2019 and released earlier this year More

Exclusive: Analysis by The Independent reveals the cost of protecting what remains of UK aid funding for the global HIV response – helping prevent millions of infections and deaths More

Exclusive: Teachers are not convinced that change is being delivered by the Labour government, Matt Wrack warned, saying his members do not feel listened to More

Downing Street has admitted that Matthew Doyle’s links with Sean Morton were ‘thoroughly investigated’ before he was nominated for a peerage More

Shabana Mahmood warned last month she could stop issuing visas to foreign nationals from certain countries More