Politics

The Scottish government has spent more than £766,000 of taxpayers' money in its long-running legal battle over the definition of a woman.

With a prime minister under extreme fire and unable to command a majority in the Commons on matters of personal authority, is politics too self-absorbed to fix a problem as broken as the system for special educational needs provision?

Wes Streeting says he has "nothing to hide" over his relationship with Lord Mandelson and has shared his private texts with the disgraced Labour peer to back up his case.

Sir Keir Starmer will chair a cabinet session today after earning a lifeline from Labour MPs during a crunch meeting in which he declared: "I'm not prepared to walk away."

Lord Mandelson would have been subject to a "thorough" and "intimate" vetting process before he was appointed UK ambassador to the US, a former head of MI6 has said.