Boris Johnson ‘broke law’ by attending party during lockdown, says Starmer

Labour leader says it’s clear ‘industrial-scale partying’ was going on in Downing Street

Migrants in the middle

Franco-British relations

China sanctions British MPs for ‘gross interference’ over Xinjiang

UK lawyers and academics also targeted in growing diplomatic spat between Beijing and West

Civil unions for heterosexuals – why campaigners won’t give up

Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan: ‘We won’t rest until the British government recognises civil partnerships to mixed-sex couples is fair and popular, and good for families and children’

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Theresa May will become British prime minister on Wednesday

David Cameron says Andrea Leadsom made right decision to pull out of leadership race

Andrea Leadsom trails May despite support of hard-right

Tory leadership candidate and ‘true-blue Brexiteer’ holds some unfashionable views

Conservatives walk tightrope on EU reform

Centrist Tories insist there is a deal that can keep the UK in the EU

Wanting the credit for staying at home