Kate Devlin

Jamieson’s Greer’s comments to US Congress last year have emerged as Mr Trump’s team urged Britain to ditch the ‘socialist’ EU and embrace an agreement with the US - or face huge tariffs

Labour work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall says young people who refuse jobs or training will lose payments, as prime minister warns of ‘bulging’ cost of welfare

Senator Lindsey Graham hit out at US allies warning they should not comply with the warrant for the Israeli leader issued by the ICC

Europe braced for impact of Donald Trump presidency on security after he picks Fox presenter Pete Hegseth, who has argued the US is spending too much on Ukraine’s fight against Russia, as defence secretary

Cabinet split on proposed legal change, which is opposed by health secretary Wes Streeting and justice secretary Shabana Mahmood but backed by Ed Miliband and celebrities like Esther Rantzen

Liam Byrne, Labour chair of Commons business committee, says plans by next US President would hurt growth

Prime minister facing increasing divisions with Labour as he tries to build bridges with the president-elect, despite foreign secretary David Lammy calling him ‘a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser’

Prime minister tackled over David Lammy’s comments by new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch

Arch Brexit supporter Mark Francois apologised for the comments which led to an official complaint from the Japanese government - one of the UK’s key defence allies

Exclusive: Group of high-profile whistleblowers cite Grenfell and Post Office scandals as they demand Labour government makes companies act

Exclusive: Figures published alongside Budget spark claims UK’s exit from EU is ‘elephant in chancellor’s study’

Extra support to protect them from the hike expected to be announced in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson said she was ‘open-minded’ about calls for a ban

Echo of Tory chancellor George Osborne’s claims as Labour prepares to raise taxes

Labour chancellor said children ‘should not suffer’ because of a £22 billion ‘black hole’ left by last Tory government

German air force to operate from base in Britain as part of new pact

Chancellor warned that hiking the tax at next week’s Budget risks punishing middle-class homeowners

Money expert said that the chancellor Rachel Reeves rang him personally to tell him about the reforms

Exclusive: New Labour education minister Stephen Morgan tells The Independent the problem is an issue ‘up and down the country’

Exclusive: Tory leadership candidate endorsed a pamphlet which said that the rise in welfare claims for mental health problems in the UK has ‘outpaced any conceivable clinical explanation’