1+ hour, 50+ min ago  (783+ words) Northern Ireland's First Minister has been questioned over engagement with China, but not US president Donald Trump. It came in the Stormont Assembly after Michelle O'Neill confirmed that she would not attend St Patrick's Day events in the White House…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (455+ words) The Prime Minister's position is one of "complete weakness, Scotland's First Minister has said. Pressure on Sir Keir Starmer continues to mount over the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, despite the resignation of his former chief of…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (390+ words) The Prince of Wales is beginning a three-day trip to Saudi Arabia " one of the UK's key Middle East allies. William's first visit to the Gulf state, made at the request of the UK Government, is likely to be the…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (740+ words) A Westminster committee has urged the Government to formally name the former agent known as Stakeknife. The Army's former spy within the IRA during the Troubles was widely believed to be west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, who was 77 when he…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (521+ words) Your Party members have voted to stand in the 2026 Holyrood election, with the party's co-founder Zarah Sultana saying Scotland deserves better than "a politics that wears the veneer of progressivism. The vote took place during the founding conference of Your…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (448+ words) Morgan McSweeney has resigned as Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid the Lord Peter Mandelson scandal. The Prime Minister's chief of staff had faced intensifying calls from within the Labour Party to go after being blamed for pushing the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (541+ words) Palestinians on both sides of the crossing between Gaza and Egypt, which opened last week for the first time since 2024, were making their way to the border on Sunday in hopes of crossing. The opening comes as Israel prime minister…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (446+ words) Polls have opened in parliamentary elections that Japan's popular prime minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will give her struggling party a big enough win to push through an ambitious conservative political agenda. Ms Takaichi is hugely popular, but the ruling Liberal…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (308+ words) Sir Tony Blair has paid tribute to his constituency election agent John Burton, who has died aged 85, calling him his "mentor, guide and teacher. Sir Tony, who was MP for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007, said he had been left bereft by…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (446+ words) Peter Mandelson is set to step down as a member of the House of Lords, it has been announced. It comes amid further news of Lord Mandelson's relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The announcement was made in the…...