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The policy overhaul included pushing back the ban on new petrol and diesel cars back by five years to 2035.

“Class is the basis of British politics; all else is embellishment and detail.” So wrote Peter Pulzer, the former Gladstone professor of politics at the University of Oxford in the 1960s. Nowadays, however, it is age, not social class, that is the biggest demographic division in Britain’s electoral politics.

With PM’s electoral options narrowing, strategists came to conclusion policy could help create dividing line with Labour

RMT has announced further walkouts in October that will disrupt most parts of the London Underground

THE SNP have demanded an immediate recall of Westminster to debate Rishi Sunak’s “arrogant” U-turn on key net zero policies.

Opposition castigates Tories’ ‘delay and dither’ but politics and pragmatism mean it will not promise full reinstatement of targets

SCOTTISH Labour MSPs will not support a motion calling for the devolution of employment law – despite a manifesto pledge to back the policy ...

The PM has calculated that he can gain points with his party membership and skew byelection results. But at what cost, asks Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Independent’s chief political commentator John Rentoul will be taking your questions on what an ‘associate membership’ of the EU could mean for the UK, Brexit and the country’s political landscape