Sunak points to a general election in the second half of 2024 | Atkins tells striking junior doctors: NHS belongs to all of us, not just you | Wallace says the UK must step up and pledge new funding for Ukraine | Starmer: Green investment could be scaled back
Junior doctors in England open door to ending NHS strikes | Sunak to launch full-throated defence of his five pledges | Tice rejects any suggestion of a truce with the Tories | UK and allies issue ‘final warning’ to Houthis over Red Sea attacks
Sunak ‘draws up income tax cut plan’ | Cleverly: Impossible to say when asylum backlog will be cleared | Tens of thousands face NHS cancellations as six-day strike begins in England | Starmer ‘to distance himself from Corbyn’ in major speech
Sunak claims to have cleared asylum backlog | …but comes under fire from Labour over ‘false’ boast | Neil O’Brien: Visa policy scandal that lets poorest migrants stay in the UK | Sunak faces calls for an inquiry into his ‘secret’ meetings with Cummings
Sunak and Hunt eye income tax cuts in spring Budget to win over voters | Tory strategists ‘target November’ for general election | Cummings’s advice ‘would have ruined Sunak’s fiscal credibility’ | Badenoch tops ConservativeHome poll to become next Conservative leader after Sunak
Sunak’s New Year message. Tax cuts are coming.’ | How seriously did the Prime Minister mull bringing back Cummings? ’ | Starmer’s New Year message. Here are my five priorities. ’ | Welcome to the year of deepfake elections
Civil servants ‘are being overpromoted to get around pay squeeze’ | Rees-Mogg and Duncan Smith call for Inheritance Tax to be abolished, not just halved | Inspectorate report finds that only half of police forces investigate crime properly
Treasury’s Spring Budget set for March 6 | Sunak considers ‘matter closed’ over Cleverly date rape joke | Rees-Mogg is ‘most popular Tory backbencher’ among readers of ConservativeHome | Delors, ‘father of the euro’, dies at 98
Downing Street ‘plans to end inheritance tax in spring’ | Tories ‘promise help for first-time buyers’ | Rose’s name axed from government report after Farage debanking scandal | Sunak scraps return to imperial measures
Cameron vows to take a tough line with Iran | Cleverly apologises for joke about spiking his wife’s drink | Reform UK “has already selected 440 candidates”
Sunak climbs down on income threshold for spouse visas | And he U-turns on using barracks to house migrants | EU is impotent on the migrant crisis, says Jenrick | Braverman demands UK quit ‘obstacle to justice’ ECHR after Ireland’s Troubles challenge
Ministers mocked after boasting of using cash from cancelling HS2 to fix London roads | Schools ‘face legal risks if they follow new transgender guidance’ | UK to defend veterans from Irish attack on Troubles law | Defence chiefs ‘gagged’ by ‘paranoid’ Sunak, officials claim
Bone loses seat as recall petition triggers by-election | Housing: Gove says 150,000 new homes in Cambridge ‘will help us fall back in love with future’ | …but Labour vows to reverse reforms | Gove could overturn Mayor’s decision to block cars for Ukraine scheme
Gove pledges reforms to provide new housing | New guidance states that schools are not under a ‘general duty’ to allow pupils to alter pronouns, names and uniform | Kearns claims Israel has “gone beyond self-defence”
Israel will “fuel the conflict for another 50 years”, warns Wallace | Jenrick: Ministers must cure the moral rot of anti-Semitism infecting universities | BBC attacked by Tories for branding Sunak-Meloni festival a ‘far-Right rally’ | UK will stand up to enemies behind hybrid warfare and smash small boat gangs, vows Shapps