Parties unite as Sunak and Starmer face calls from their own MPs and peers to boost military budget | Free childcare plan ‘will hit target in days’ | Sunak backs Rowling in trans arrest row with Scottish police | An autumn election is more likely than a summer one, hints business minister
Sunak ‘faces revolt’ over plan to criminalise homelessness | His election hopes ‘could be boosted’ by waiting until after the US, ‘say allies’ | Halve the aid budget and boost defence, says Jenrick | Ripping up England’s historic counties did not go far enough, insists Heseltine
“Mega poll” shows the Conservatives would win fewer than a hundred seats if an election were held now | Coutinho warns Labour’s ‘unfeasible’ 2030 net zero target would leave UK at China’s mercy | Jenrick calls for migrant crime data to be published
Downing Street “plays down” speculation of summer election | Rent reforms “watered down” after landlords raise concerns | Honours for Conservative MPs | Rayner refuses to make tax advice public
Speculation mounts about a summer election | ‘Worst hospital pass in a generation’ – Sunak on Truss | Prime Minister only went ahead with net migration measures after I threatened to quit, says Jenrick | HMP Bedford security lapses spark prison investigation
Sunak’s attempt to ‘boost Tory morale’ hit after Halfon joins Heappey is resigning | Triple lock will stay for the rest of the decade if Tories win election, he says | The Government ‘pours cold water’ on Davie’s idea to charge wealthy more for BBC licence fee | Labour retreats on plan for ‘a better Brexit deal’ after EU snub
China set to be declared a threat to national security | Cameron challenged over Britain’s role in UN ceasefire vote | Benton resigns as MP, triggering another by-election | Mercer has days to name sources in Afghan Inquiry
Sunak ‘pledges to boost’ the UK’s nuclear deterrent to protect against Putin | Hunt confirms the Conservatives will retain the UK pension triple lock in their manifesto | Nick Timothy: Our economic model is bust. Being a services superpower is not enough. | Tackle repeat offenders with ‘five strikes and out’ rule, say the New Conservatives
Majority of Tory voters ‘would prefer’ more defence spending over tax cuts | Tim Shipman: Reform now ahead of Sunak’s Tories among male voters | Daniel Hannan: Moral arguments over the state pension are irrelevant. There is no money. | Galloway damned by MPs as ‘stain on democracy’ for ‘lurid untruths’ about the Princess of Wales
Tories now just four points ahead of Reform UK | Robert Jenrick: Liberal elites put their reputation at Davos ahead of Britain’s interests | The Home Office has no plane for Rwanda flights amid ‘migration emergency’ | Starmer urges Nike to change St George’s cross colour on new England shirt
Flights delayed until June as Government loses seven Lords votes on Rwanda Bill | Prime Minister urges Tory MPs to present unified front before local elections | Sunak hails ‘new economic moment’ as inflation falls to a two-year low | …as Tories make ‘huge state pension promise’
UK inflation falls to 3.4 per cent and Bank of England mulls interest rate cut | He is to force European leaders to confront ‘the scourge of people smuggling and illegal migration’ at alt-EU summer gathering at Blenheim Palace | Badenoch: Britain’s diversity drive has backfired | Reeves: New Labour left Britain ‘exposed’ to financial crash
MPs overturn Lords Amendments to Rwanda Bill | Obama visits Downing Street for talks with Sunak | Ministers sued over woke indoctrination in schools
Sunak urges Tories to ‘stick with the plan’ as leadership talk grows | Badenoch ‘slashes red tape’ for medium-sized businesses in ‘post-Brexit boost’ | Rwanda ‘wants two-month pause’ after first migrant flight arrivals | Davey ‘vows to get UK back in single market’
Mordaunt is ‘stalking horse for Right-wing Tory rival’ | Shapps forced to abandon trip to Ukrainian city ‘after warnings of Russian missile threat’ | Gething to become Welsh First Minister and Europe’s first black leader | Tories plan to amend Equality Act to protect single-sex spaces