Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has bowed to weeks of pressure from within his party and announced his resignation, less than a year after taking office.

A few hours before French PM François Bayrou went down in flames in parliament, having failed to win a vote of confidence for ...

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba stepped down less than two months after his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost its majority in the upper house elections. At such a critical moment in US ...

Britain currently has a female Chancellor, a female Home Secretary, a female Education Secretary and, as of Friday, a female ...

Ishiba, a former defense minister who had previously run for LDP leadership several times, ran to succeed Kishida. He was ...

Reform UK’s newest MP has said Lucy Connolly is not a “hero”. Sarah Pochin, who became a Reform MP in May after winning the ...

Lucy Connolly, a former childminder from Northampton, was jailed after a tweet inciting violence against asylum seekers in the wake of the Southport murders. She was sentenced to 31 months in prison ...

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has ruled out running for deputy Labour leader (Jordan Pettitt/PA) Former transport secretary Louise Haigh, another name touted, is understood not to be planning to run.

The party is electing a new deputy leader following Angela Rayner’s resignation after breaching the ministerial code over her flat purchase.