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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has described herself as a "classic old school Conservative", setting out her guiding political principles and echoing Margaret Thatcher.
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Ahead of the Conservative party conference, MPs say the mood is more upbeat and united under leader Kemi Badenoch, but the party remains a distant third in polls, with one shadow minister saying the Tories have 'outsourced our toxicity to Reform'.
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Guardian live blog on the Green party conference, where the deputy leader said the Greens would nationalise Thames and SE Water without compensation. A speaker, Ali, described Britain as a multiracial, multicultural democracy and called on Andy Burnham to treat rising racist violence and intimidation as a national emergency.
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Kemi Badenoch returns to the Conservative party conference in a stronger position than a year ago, with approval ratings for her and the party rising, though significant challenges remain.
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to set out a return to core conservative principles at her party's annual conference.
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The Conservative Party will focus on the economy and welfare at its conference, with leader Kemi Badenoch telling her team to prepare for a possible early election.
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Energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh, speaking to the Guardian at Labour's Liverpool conference, said her success would be judged on cutting energy bills and challenged Reform UK and the Conservatives over climate inaction, saying they were on the 'wrong side of history'.
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A UK judge has imposed a £100,000 bail condition on a man accused of killing, directing or encouraging the deaths of Tutsi people during the Rwandan genocide. He denies wrongdoing.
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Angela Rayner has defended her criticism of Home Office reforms that would require low-paid migrants, including care workers, to spend 15 years in the UK before applying for settlement, calling the changes 'disruptive'.
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Angela Rayner has criticised government proposals to change waiting times for permanent residency, saying the plans are unfair because they "change the goalposts". The comments come ahead of the Labour conference.
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The Home Office issued a record £66m in emergency security funding for mosques and related community sites in the UK after violent disorder followed the 2024 Southport attacks. Further figures show about £41m issued for 2025-26 under the protective security scheme.
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Camden council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali is Labour's candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection for Keir Starmer's former seat, focusing her campaign on local issues amid a Green party challenge.
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A total of 781 migrants arrived in the UK by small boat on Wednesday, a daily record for 2026, though the yearly total remains below the same point in 2025.
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Josh Babarinde, the 33-year-old president of the Liberal Democrats, sets out a combative agenda targeting big tech and crypto billionaires and returning power and money to the public as the party gathers in Brighton.
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Andy Burnham of "fiddling while Europe is at risk of burning", repeating her call for the prime minister to cut the welfare budget to fund increased defence spending.
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Reform UK MP Danny Kruger said asylum seekers arriving on small boats are 'wealthy men' who do not deserve help from the British state, arguing that paying people smugglers thousands of pounds shows they are well off. Refugee charities immediately dismissed the claim.
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Home secretary Shabana Mahmood described anti-asylum activist Daniel Thomas as "a far-right and outright racist" who would face "the full force of the law" if his organisation commits crimes near contested asylum sites such as Piddington. She also sought to reassure villagers that asylum seekers moving into a former defence site would have self-contained facilities.
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At least five Reform UK councillors, from Solihull, Gateshead and Kent, were members of a Facebook group linked to the far-right Patriot Platform, according to anti-fascist campaigners. The group has been involved in blockades at Dover and Portsmouth by masked men, activities condemned by Nigel Farage and across the political spectrum.
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