Police forces in England and Wales have been accused of "significantly harming the public interest" in their handling of allegations of domestic abuse by their own officers. 

We were joined for a debate on farming by Environment Secretary George Eustice, Professor Mel Squires from the National Farmers Union, Kate Norgrove from the World Wildlife fund - and Andy Gray, a farmer from the Devon County Agricultural Association...

Rural voters say they're being neglected by the government - and farmers are disgruntled too, warning that rising costs could lead to food shortages… and that post-Brexit trade deals will see them losing out to cheap imports. 

Watchdogs have highlighted a series of failings by Britain's biggest police force which they say have damaged public confidence in the force, revealing they have had "substantial and persistent concerns" about the Met Police for "a considerable time"...

They might have set the goal, but not the means to achieve it. 

Millions of the country's lowest income households are going without food or other essentials because they don't have enough money to make ends meet - that's according to debt advice charity StepChange whose data has been shared exclusively with this...

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has described Russia as "very, very dangerous on the world stage" - as he called for the UK to raise defence spending by the middle of the decade.

In Madrid, the priority has been to show a united front and even before the doors opened on this massive exhibition hall, Turkey had been persuaded to drop its veto for Sweden and Finland joining Nato.

We spoke to Mina Smallman who has been campaigning for an end to the ‘toxic culture’ within the Met following the murder of her two daughters. Two police officers were later jailed for sharing photographs and highly offensive comments abo...

The Metropolitan Police has been placed in ‘special measures’ by the police watchdog after a series of scandals, from the way it handled the Sarah Everard murder case, to offensive messages and photos shared by officers and the failure to...

We hear from the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture, Angus Robertson, on Nicola Sturgeon’s plans for a second independence referendum.

Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has set out plans to unilaterally call a second independence referendum in October 2023 but only if she can persuade the Supreme Court that it is legal. Nicola Sturgeon said she accepted that calling a ...

Glastonbury has always been political, and this year was no different. 

Thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal suffered "incredibly bad luck", according to the former prime minister Sir John Major.

We were joined from Edinburgh by Maree Todd, the minister for women's health in the Scottish government.