Farage's manifesto: Does any of it add up?

Reform conference in Birmingham was supposed to revivify Nigel Farage and his party. After unrelenting scrutiny over his undeclared £5m gift from Christopher Harborne, a parliamentary standards investigation, and a Clacton by-election which descended into farce, Farage needed thi ...  Show more

Not long ago, women’s boxing was a different sport.Banned in most countries and ridiculed in the rest, female fighters fought in the shadows.Until one night in 1996.That night Deirdre Gogarty, a painfully shy Irish woman and Christy Martin, a raging knockout artist from the coalf ...  Show more

Have the wheels well and truly fallen off the Conservative election campaign? After a dismal D-Day debacle and news that social media campaigning is suspended, Ed Balls and George Osborne question whether Rishi Sunak is just giving up.

Regardless, it’s manifesto laun ...

With the general election in sight, has Nigel Farage made a campaign misstep? His claim that the west provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been met with international indignation – but will it have any on his polling?

And as we enter the final 10 days of camp ...

Marine Le Pen’s far-right party made great gains in the first round of France’s parliamentary election. The left did too. ...

We ask whether the prime minister can survive the latest scandal engulfing his government. Is the departure of his closest and longstanding aide Munira Mirza the beginning of the end? Or the start of a reset? Chief political correspondent Jim Pickard will discuss with chief po ...