Influential Liberal and Lib Dem politician who served as Scotland’s deputy first minister from the outset of devolution ...

The most senior group of Labour’s governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), voted on Sunday to block Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham from standing in the seat, citing concerns ...

Jim Wallace, later known as Baron Wallace of Tankerness, enjoyed the unique historical achievement of stepping into the role ...

Labour has named Manchester city councillor Angeliki Stogia as its candidate for the seat as the party attempts to defend its place and avoid a damaging defeat. Meanwhile, Reform has announced GB News ...

John Major’s government cut defence spending to below 3 of gross domestic product (GDP) in in 1995, and it has not risen above that level since.

For years, UK politician Jeremy Thorpe's affair was a secret – but when his former lover Norman Scott blurted out the truth, ...

Thanks to Reform UK, a new party game is all the rage. It’s called Who’s Next?. With Romford MP Andrew Rosindell becoming the latest to jump ship to the Jolly Nigel, defections from the Conservatives ...

Lord Wallace was undergoing a procedure at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on Thursday, but died as a result of ...

Andy Burnham: The ‘King of the North’ whose bid to return to Westminster sparked Labour civil war - PROFILE: Keir Starmer is ...

Around the world, political systems are undergoing radical change. For example, Britain has had a de facto two-party system for decades – but no longer: the Labour and the Conservative parties ...

After plunging in Asian trade on Monday, gold then recovered to stand at $4,750 an ounce, down nearly 3% on the day. Silver ...

The moon landing! Royal weddings! Janet Jackson’s $550,000 nipple! As television turns 100, we charts its journey from terrifyingly dangerous to the thing that unites us ...