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NEWS ANALYSIS: Political editor David Maddox explains why successive UK governments have dithered over deciding whether Beijing is a friend or foe

A spokesperson for Sir Tony Blair said he recalled that the pair’s meeting lasted ‘less than 30 minutes’.

Donald Trump’s first state visit to the UK, in June 2019, was an attempt by the British government to try to forestall the threat of Trumpism, a set of ideas and style of leadership that were not, in the end, embedded. The unprecedented second state visit of September 2025 has…

NEWS ANALYSIS: The prime minister can breathe easy after a three-day transatlantic love-in – but he must now turn his attention to problems at home, writes Millie Cooke

A Labour MP has used the emergency parliamentary debate to defend the process behind Lord Mandelson’s appointment, arguing it is no different to past failures made in the vetting of senior staff.

Trump's UK state visit hits storm: Giant Epstein photo banner at Windsor, London rallies rage over files & policies

Donald Trump’s second state visit in six years starts today at King Charles’s Windsor estate in style: a carriage ride (past Harry and Meghan’s old haunt of Frogmore Cottage, as it happens), a lavish evening banquet and panoply of military bands and fly pasts. It is a massive ceremonial courtesy…

Scotland’s First Minister claimed Labour ministers in London are ‘distracted’ amid the fallout from the peer’s departure.

The government said the new legislation will ‘end the culture of cover-ups’ but have been warned not to water it down