Politics

David Lammy has downplayed calling Donald Trump a “neo-nazi” and insisted he can find common ground with the new president-elect. The foreign secretary said the remarks he made in 2018 were “old news” and at the time most politicians “had some pretty ripe things to say” about the then leader of the US. Mr Lammy
Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard share their daily guide to the day ahead in politics in under 20 minutes. With everyone waking up to the possibility of a second Trump presidency in the US, how will the UK government react? There may be huge news across the pond, but
Labour backbench MP Dawn Butler has been criticised for sharing a post describing Kemi Badenoch as “the most prominent member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class”. Ms Butler swiftly deleted her retweet of a comment from British-Nigerian author Nels Abbey, which he posted on X shortly before the Tory leadership contest result was announced. In
The new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said the partygate scandal was “overblown” and the government should not have fined people for “everyday activities” during lockdown. Ms Badenoch, who won the battle to replace Rishi Sunak on Saturday, said the public was “not wrong to be upset about partygate” – when those working in Downing
A Treasury minister has conceded the measures in the budget do hit “working people” – but insisted Labour had not broken their manifesto promises. Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the Treasury, argued the government had “honoured” its commitment in its election-winning manifesto by not raising the tax rates on working people – specifically, income