Bloomberg's Caroline Hepker, Stephen Carroll, Yuan Potts and Lizzy Burden have your daily guide to British politics. We'll tell you what's happening and explain why it matters.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented Labour’s first budget in 14 years by promising to put an “end to short-termism”.British governments typically see budgets as an opportunity to present policies ...

Speaking in Cape Town on Tuesday, Britain’s new foreign secretary, David Lammy, said the partial suspension of arms exports to Israel had been guided by the importance of upholding international ...

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was quick to congratulate the president-elect, alongside his Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and the Government will be keen to build bridges with the incoming ...

Despite Trump’s previous enthusiasm for a U.K.-U.S. free trade deal, his support for imposing tariffs of up to 20 percent on all U.S. imports could cause major problems for the U.K., and global trade ...

The Prime Minister will need to cement his personal relationship with the Republican president-elect, press Europe's case on ...

Twenty years ago, the Labour government launched the Commission for Africa. Now, Keir Starmer and David Lammy can lead a ...

New Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch will face off against Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions for the ...

Britain’s Prince William arrived in Cape Town on Tuesday to meet with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. PRINCE ...

Legislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke began its journey through ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The £100 billion of capital investment in Labour’s budget is a necessary corrective to decades of underspending on ...