Watch live as Grant Shapps announces green list countriesTravel firms are urging the government to expand the number of countries on its green list for quarantine-free travel in summer. Just 12 destinations are on the…

Boris Johnson has dismissed a second independence referendum as “reckless” and “irresponsible”, as the chances of a majority for Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP at the Holyrood elections hanging in the balance.Risking a constitutional confrontation with the…

Sturgeon says SNP majority ‘has always been a very, very long shot’Boris Johnson has rejected a second referendum on Scottish independence as “reckless and irresponsible,” as the first set of election results in Scotland leave…

Nicola Sturgeon has said the chances of an SNP majority at Holyrood hang “in the balance” as early results saw her party pick up a number of seats.Ms Sturgeon - who is on course to…

Sir Keir Starmer has admitted that Labour has lost voters’ trust and said he takes “full responsibility” for its poor performance in this week’s elections.In a TV interview recorded several hours after the devastating loss…

Tory MP Jill Mortimer is ‘overwhelmed’ by her landslide Hartlepool winBoris Johnson’s Conservatives have taken Labour’s “red wall” stronghold seat of Hartlepool, winning the constituency for the first time since it was created almost 50…

A senior member of Labour’s Blairite wing has said Keir Starmer must be replaced as leader to give the party a chance of winning elections. Andrew Adonis - who served in the governments of Tony Blair…

Boris Johnson has credited the UK’s Covid bounceback for Conservative successes in Thursday’s election, including capturing Hartlepool for the first time since the 1960s.In his first public response to the elections, the prime minister hailed…