Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he would do everything he could to ensure NHS patients are ‘treated faster, free at the ...

Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly pledged to be a president for all after being elected as Ireland’s 10th president.

Lucy Powell’s victory in the deputy leadership contest could add to Sir Keir Starmer’s headaches at the end of a bruising ...

There was some criticism of the small number of candidates, leading to focus on the strict nomination criteria.

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin has apologised for any offence caused after saying “it drives me mad when I see adverts full of ...

Reform MP Sarah Pochin has hit out at “woke” adverts “full of black people”. The Runcorn and Helsby MP said it “drives me mad ...

Among the political names mentioned in the race for the Aras were Taoiseach Michael Martin, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, ...

Congratulating Ms Connolly, the Social Democrats’ Holly Cairns called the victory a “seismic moment in our history”. She said ...

Leaders of parties which backed the independent candidate have been congratulating her ahead of an expected decisive victory.