For decades, trade and trade policy has been an economic and political backwater - decidedly boring, seemingly uncontroversial. 

Getting Donald Trump to sign off the Chagos Islands deal is a big win for Number 10 and a vindication of Sir Keir Starmer's softly, softly approach…

Several private schools, as well as some pupils and their parents, have launched a legal challenge over the government imposing VAT on private schools.

The most senior and long-serving civil servants could be offered a maximum of £95,000 to quit their jobs as part of a government efficiency drive.

A bill to legally prevent new sentencing guidelines on how ethnic minority criminals should be punished will be introduced today, the justice secretary…

Sir Keir Starmer has said US-UK trade talks are "well advanced" ahead of tariffs expected to be imposed by Donald Trump on the UK this week - but rejected…

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump have discussed the "productive negotiations" towards a UK-US "economic prosperity deal", Downing Street has said.

A major incident has been declared in Birmingham over an ongoing bin strike, which has left around 17,000 tonnes of waste on the streets of the…

Controversial sentencing guidelines that were due to come into force on Tuesday have been delayed after a political backlash.

Sir Ed Davey has said people are "changing their mind" on Tesla electric cars and he would not buy one.

Sir Keir Starmer has said 24,000 people who "have no right to be here" have been returned since Labour took power as he opened the government's border…

Sir Keir Starmer is set to address a summit today aimed at cracking down on illegal migration.

The government plans to change the law so it can overrule Sentencing Council guidelines following a row over "two-tier justice", Sky News understands.