Jacob Rees-Mogg would return to the Commons with a majority of more than 20,000 if he defected to Reform UK, the party's number crunchers have calculated. The former Tory MP, who lost his North ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writers are a Labour peer and former minister and a Conservative former minister respectively It is no ...

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Newsnight that it is time for the Tories to make an electoral pact with Reform. The UK has suspended trade talks with Israel over its policy on Gaza. Show more Former ...

Begum is not the only British-born detainee in north-east Syrian prisons to have had their citizenship stripped. Reprieve, the legal NGO estimates there are 25 British families currently being ...

We simply cannot repeat the mistakes that were after 1997 and spend over a decade in opposition. The country cannot afford that. Let’s not forget that oppositions can and do have bruising times ...

Johnson is sticking to his guns. “I am surprised he doesn’t have one,” he tells me. “He certainly deserves it, if only for creating Roland Rat.” Students gathered at the Cambridge Union to debate the ...

But the party is full of famous faces - from ex-prime ministers like Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, through to media personalities like Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries - with many of them ...

The landmark UK Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman could play a part in Ofcom’s assessment of complaints about TV shows, according to the regulator’s CEO. Melanie Dawes ...

Any attempts to sidestep the Equality Act could lead to a showdown with Sir Keir Starmer's government, as former Tory MP Jacob Rees Mogg warned in the Spectator this week. "Yes, they can change ...

Keir Starmer has been accused of plotting a “genuine sell out” to the European Union by Britain’s former Brexit negotiator. The warning comes after the Prime Minister refused to make a key ...

Why so little enthusiasm?” Other Tory voices who had praised Starmer’s India deal, such as Jacob Rees-Mogg and Oliver Dowden, seem to have been persuaded not to say anything about the US ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg has suggested that in local authorities where there is no overall control but where the Conservatives and Reform are the two largest parties, the former could help the latter to ...