The Home Office spent £15 million buying a derelict prison contaminated with asbestos amid political pressure to stop housing migrants in hotels, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog.

The government watchdog finds the Home Office made "a series of poor decisions" buying the site in East Sussex.

The Home Office completed the sale of the Northeye site in September 2023 for about £15.4 million. | ITV News Meridian ...

Elon Musk has led calls for free speech in Britain after it emerged that a journalist had been handed a police visit for a ...

A post shared on Facebook claims British politician and Leader of the Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch was born in Nigeria. Verdict: False The claim is false. According to a February 2024 article from ...

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to British commentator, Inaya Folarin Iman, about the remarkable rise of Kemi Badenoch who this month became the first black woman to lead a major UK party.

New Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel earlier this year welcomed into Parliament a radical U.S. organisation behind Donald ...

Robert Jenrick took aim at Sir Keir Starmer over the case of a former actor accused of evading arrest after being released ...

Conservative MPs are evenly split between MPs on the right of the party – supporting Badenoch, Jenrick and Priti Patel – and ...

Welcome to an exclusive Ask Me Anything session with me, Andrew Grice, political columnist for The Independent.Keep scrolling for more. If you want to jump straight to the Q&A click here.The ...

How many of them can you name? - Some faces may be familiar but others are likely to be new given the Tories now only have ...

Kemi Badenoch’s ascent is partly the result of a deliberate diversifying of the party under David Cameron in the 2000s. In ...