Politics

The government is launching a drive to recruit thousands of new volunteers to serve as magistrates in England and Wales, as it seeks to get a grip of the courts backlog.

Nigel Farage has said he is giving "serious thought" to scrapping the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) if his party wins the next general election and he becomes prime minister.

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of diverting £3 billion of NHS funding a year to appease Donald Trump.

A total of 41,472 migrants arrived in the UK in 2025 after crossing the Channel on a small boat - the second-highest annual figure on record.

The government's woken up to quite the new year hangover with the publication of 2025's small boat data - which reveals the number of migrants crossing the Channel increased by more than 4,500 people compared to 2024.