Political claims, statements and decisions examined against the available evidence.
The full Celebrity Traitors 2026 cast has been revealed, with 21 stars including Michael Sheen, Bella Ramsey, Maya Jama, Miranda Hart and James Blunt heading to the castle.
Russia has threatened that British military assets could be targeted in response to Ukrainian strikes using British-supported missiles, following Andy Burnham's agreement to help Kyiv produce long-range Storm Shadow weapons.
Small-boat arrivals fell 23% to around 33,000 in the year ending June 2026 while the number of supported asylum seekers living in hotels halved to 16,000, new Home Office statistics show.
More than 100 organisations have challenged Andy Burnham over the early release of domestic abuse perpetrators, warning the policy conflicts with Labour's pledge to halve violence against women and girls.
Andy Burnham has dropped support for a general cap on large political donations as Labour MPs push for tougher limits on mega-donors ahead of the Representation of the People Bill returning to the Commons.
Forty people who disappeared while they were children living in Home Office asylum hotels remain unlocated, with Parliament demanding answers over efforts to trace them.
Andy Burnham is poised to impose a trade ban on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as ministers prepare a wider response to the E1 settlement expansion.
David Dinsmore will leave his role as the Government's communications chief on 30 September, with the Cabinet Office explicitly linking the timing to the change of Prime Minister and administration.
Britain will host a permanent Five Eyes counter-extremism hub bringing together specialists from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to identify emerging threats and tackle online radicalisation.
Britons are set to be urged to keep food, bottled water and other emergency supplies at home as the Government steps up national resilience preparations.
Serious sexual and violent offenders could be confined to tightly controlled areas just a few miles wide after leaving prison under new restriction zones launching in October.
Andy Burnham is considering reforms to the special administration regime that could make it easier for the Government to take failing utilities into public control.