As Conservatives whine about the budget, the Covid corruption commissioner waits in the wings

With just over a week until the US election, the Republican leader is showing his true colours

Democracy is in the balance as Americans prepare to go to the polls

Chris Riddell on the direction of the Tory leadership contest after the elimination of James Cleverly

James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick jostle for positions in the run-up to the Conservative leadership election

Labour’s talk is all of tax rises and spending cuts. When will we see growth?

The president warned that such a move would put Nato at war with Moscow

In 2014, the former prime minister proudly announced that his government had stopped ‘needless health and safety inspections’

The prime minister’s beauty sleep is interrupted by an unwelcome visitor with designs on the government’s spending plans

The Democratic contender tells it like it is about Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s bizarre conversation with Elon Musk leaves Kamala Harris’s party feeling confident

The X boss strokes his pet cat, otherwise known as far-right hate

The riots in Southport and elsewhere are meat and drink to the leader of Reform UK

Despite its disastrous policies, the party of Donald Trump is trampling all over the Democrats

With Keir Starmer in No 10, all that’s needed now is an England football win in Berlin

The prime minister’s Ming vase is intact – but look what’s lurking in the cupboard

Fears the incumbent is too old grow after an exchange in which the challenger was in full talk-to-the-hand mode

Will bets on the general election date be the final nail in the coffin for Rishi Sunak’s poll gamble?

With less than three weeks to go, Lib Dems, Tories and Labour are adopting very different approaches