The full closure of the UK's borders has been "considered" by the government amid concerns about new COVID variants being imported from abroad, a minister…

Almost two-thirds of elderly care home residents have had a COVID-19 vaccine - with vaccinations among all groups occurring at 200 jabs per minute,…

There are "no plans" to give everyone who tests positive for coronavirus a one-off payment of £500, Downing Street has said.

Everyone who tests positive for coronavirus could soon receive a one-off payment of £500, in a government move to persuade more people to get…

Public sector net borrowing reached £34.1bn in December - the third-highest monthly figure since records began in 1993.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has signalled pupils could be told in a week's time if they will be returning to classrooms after the February…

The BBC has admitted it spent over £1m on legal fees fighting equal pay and race discrimination cases brought by staff.

An online system for booking COVID vaccine appointments has been criticised after claims ineligible people have been using it to "queue-jump" and receive…

Ministers have been branded "petty" and warned security cooperation could be affected by a reported plan to withhold full diplomatic status from the…

Boris Johnson has been accused of "overruling" Home Secretary Priti Patel - after she claimed she argued for the shutting of the UK's borders at the…

Downing Street has declined to criticise US President Joe Biden for removing a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office - despite Boris Johnson…

The UK will need to look "very carefully" at new data from Israel which suggests protection provided by the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine…

Theresa May has launched an unusually fierce attack on Boris Johnson, accusing him of "abandoning" Britain's "moral leadership".

Schools might not all reopen at the same time across England as lockdown restrictions are eased, MPs have been told.

Boris Johnson has narrowly won a vote to let the UK strike trade deals with countries that are committing genocide.

A media enquiry by Sky News has led to questions over what Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon knew of bullying concerns surrounding the office…

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has revealed he is self-isolating for the next six days after being "pinged" by the NHS coronavirus app.

The health secretary has said there are "brighter times" ahead as the coronavirus vaccine rollout continues, but warned the public: "Don't blow it…

Four million people have now received a coronavirus jab, the prime minister has revealed, as he warned the public there will be no "open sesame" of…

A row over Universal Credit has erupted after Labour called a debate to vote on extending a temporary £20 weekly rise in payments to help families…

The home secretary has said experts are working "flat out" to fix the problems caused by the accidental deletion of hundreds of thousands of police…

All UK adults should be offered the first dose of a COVID vaccine by September - with the hope some restrictions can be lifted by March, Dominic Raab…

Replacing the £20-a-week increase in Universal Credit with a one-off payment of £500 is a "terrible" idea, Labour has said.

Controversial monuments should be "contexualised" and "explained" rather than "taken and hidden away", the communities secretary has said.

Housing minister Kelly Tolhurst has resigned from the government after receiving "devastating" family news.

Boris Johnson will host this year's G7 summit in the tiny seaside resort of Carbis Bay in Cornwall, where he will urge world leaders to unite in "building…

Engineers are working to restore hundreds of thousands of police records that were accidentally deleted from the national database, the Home Office…

All travel corridors will close from Monday, forcing everyone arriving in the UK to self-isolate.

Closing schools has been one of the most painful consequences of the pandemic - the action Boris Johnson described as his "last resort".

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says he is the last person people should take travel advice from after he imposed quarantine restrictions on Spain…

More than 66,000 hauliers have so far been tested at the Channel crossing with only "very low levels" of coronavirus detected, Transport Secretary…

Travel to the UK from every country in South America, as well as Portugal, has been banned due to fears over the coronavirus variant first identified…

The prime minister has a "sort of language which he's quite rightly nervous using in front of women", according to one of his former ministers.