During the Second World War the government introduced compulsory ID cards as part of their emergency measures. It was not ...

Winston Churchill was always ready with a one-liner, and often savage with his political foes. Taking a pot shot once at Labour leader Clement Attlee, he said: “An empty taxi pulled up, and out ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, fresh from collaring US President Donald Trump for a corpse-rigid selfie, has been in the UK over the weekend, inciting some mild controversy for addressing the UK ...

Lord Attlee, the former Clement Attlee, leader of the Labor Party between 1936 and 1951 and Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, died here last night, aged 84. Attlee’s leadership of the government ...

Liverpool: Anthony Albanese has likened the job facing himself and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to that of their post-war forebears Ben Chifley and Clement Attlee, who built order out of the ...

Sir Keir Starmer will today announce a major overhaul of the NHS, promising an "online hospital" that will deliver millions of extra appointments and help cut long waiting times, as he outlines his ...

When Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the House of Commons last July that His Majesty’s government would not withdraw from Abadan completely, the British lion seemed ready for an oldtime imperial ...

I’m the only one at Labour conference who looks like a socialist. They’re all dressed for a job interview, I’m in a woolly jumper plus CND tote bag (I also donated £5 to Cuba, which I assume has gone ...

The two most important people in British politics are both dead. At least that is the claim usually attributed to one of the greatest historians of the Conservative Party, the late Robert Blake. Since ...

The construction of three new towns will begin before the next general election, Labour has pledged. A taskforce has recommended 12 locations in England for development, with three areas - Tempsford ...

Politics is a terminal business. Everyone goes in the end, mostly unwillingly, often unhappily, sometimes in humiliation. There’s anger and shame, picked over in columns like this, which try to work ...