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Brexit has “weighed” on the British economy and relations with the EU must be rebuilt, according to the governor of the Bank of England. Andrew Bailey’s comments come in a speech at the City of London’s Mansion House this evening and were widely trailed beforehand. He said although he takes “no position on Brexit per

Pension “mega funds” will be created under government plans to increase infrastructure investment. Reforms could “unlock £80bn” of investment, according to Treasury plans, which say bigger funds can get greater returns. Chancellor Rachel Reeves wants to imitate the way large Canadian and Australian pension schemes work. She will give more details about her plans in

Labour MPs who are opposed to legalising assisted dying believe the momentum is swinging behind their side of the campaign, Sky News has learnt. MPs are currently weighing up whether to back a change in the law that would give terminally ill people with six months to live the choice to end their lives. At

Fines of £10,000 for social media bosses who don’t remove illegal knife adverts are being considered by the government. The proposals are part of attempts by Labour to fulfil their promise to halve knife crime levels in the next decade. The Home Office wants to introduce the measures to stop the “unacceptable use of social

This week in Azerbaijan, we saw Keir Starmer honing the art of delivering different messages to different audiences.  An essential survival skill in politics, it feels like the new backroom team in Number 10 are finding their feet as they attempt to wrestle the challenging political landscape more to their advantage. Politics Live: Starmer’s former

Self-administering drugs to end your own life legally is more compassionate than someone else doing it, the MP proposing assisted dying legislation has said. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was published on Monday and revealed the medicine that will end a patient’s life will need to be self-administered, with doctors not allowed

The full details of the End Of Life Bill are now known, and MPs and peers will have time to study its contents ahead of making one of their most important decisions. We have not had societal change like this since the Abortion Act of 1967. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has done some exhaustive research

The defence secretary has insisted Donald Trump is committed to NATO and is right to push other European nations to put more funding into the security alliance. John Healey dismissed suggestions the new US president will pull out of NATO, the military alliance consisting of 30 European countries and the US and Canada, after previous

Farmers could blockade ports or cause food shortages by refusing to supply their produce if the government doesn’t listen to calls to rethink inheritance tax changes made in the budget, Sky News has been told. Tractor go-slows and a strike on spreading sewage sludge on their land are also being considered by some “hardcore groups”,

Britain’s annual Remembrance Day has a special dimension this year because it is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, and the Imperial War Museum are arranging for images of the men and women who took part in the Normandy campaign to be projected on

A recruitment and retention crisis in the armed forces will grow unless the government exempts military families from paying VAT on private school fees, insiders have warned. Sky News understands that more and more families are raising concerns internally about the “damaging” policy after the chancellor failed to offer sufficient protections in her budget. They

The war in Ukraine needs “concessions on both sides” if it is to come to an end, Nigel Farage has said. The Reform UK leader suggested the invaded nation could gain “quite a lot from settling”, though he refused to say if this meant giving up territory to Russia in return. Politics Live: ex-Blair aide

A look at Jonathan Powell’s CV shows that, on paper, he is more than qualified for the job of national security adviser. An experienced government operator intimately involved in crafting the Good Friday Agreement and at the heart of many complex discussions over foreign policy during the New Labour years. Indeed in 2014, David Cameron

Can a Labour prime minister get on well with a Republican US president? Or a Conservative PM with a Democrat in the White House? The short answer is yes, absolutely. There are plenty of examples of a good relationship and close bond between a Labour prime minister and Republican president. And vice versa. Indeed, some

David Lammy has downplayed calling Donald Trump a “neo-nazi” and insisted he can find common ground with the new president-elect. The foreign secretary said the remarks he made in 2018 were “old news” and at the time most politicians “had some pretty ripe things to say” about the then leader of the US. Mr Lammy

MP Mike Amesbury has been charged with common assault following an incident in Frodsham, Cheshire last month Cheshire Police said the 55 year old will appear in a magistrates court later today to face the assault charge. In a statement, police said the charge “relates to reports of an assault on a 45-year-old man on

It wasn’t yet official, but Sir Keir Starmer was straight out of the blocks on Wednesday morning to congratulate Donald Trump on his imminent victory – as America reeled from an election that turned from being too close to call into an emphatic, definitive and quick win. The president-elect took the Electoral College, the popular

Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard share their daily guide to the day ahead in politics in under 20 minutes. With everyone waking up to the possibility of a second Trump presidency in the US, how will the UK government react? There may be huge news across the pond, but

A Labour MP has been mugged on the way back to his London flat. Chris Webb said the attack happened on Monday evening as he walked home from Parliament. The 38-year-old, who represents Blackpool South, said he was “attacked and mugged by a group of individuals” who were on bikes and wearing balaclavas. “Luckily, I

Tom Tugendhat is not serving in Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet as the new Tory leader continued her appointments today. Former Home Office minister Chris Philp has been awarded the job of shadow home secretary, the last of the key posts to be announced. Unveiling a host of announcements today, Ms Badenoch, who was elected leader