Smoking ban plan - will England kick the habit?
The prime minister wants to stop younger generations from taking up smoking – by making it illegal for anyone born after 2005 to ever be able to buy them. Rishi Sunak’s plan – announced in his Tory co...
5 Okt 202320min
Long-term, can Rishi Sunak make it a brighter future?
The prime minister closed the Conservative Party conference with a speech setting out his pitch for the next election, promising to reform A-levels, support the health service and crack down on smokin...
4 Okt 202324min
Conservative conference: Who's up for an election?
Rishi Sunak has claimed a general election is "not what the country wants" but insists he is unafraid of going to the polls. On the Sky News Daily with Niall Paterson, our political editor Beth Rigby ...
3 Okt 202325min
Conservative conference: Tax, Truss, and HS2
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt held firm on tax cuts, despite growing pressure from his colleagues at the Conservative Party conference on Monday. "The plan is working and now we must see it through," he said...
2 Okt 202327min
'Psychological torture': The row over never-ending prison sentences
Thousands of prisoners remain incarcerated on open-ended prison sentences under a now defunct scheme, known as IPP sentencing. The no-maximum prison sentences, some of which were given to offenders of...
29 Sep 202321min
HS2: Is the UK bad at big infrastructure projects?
When it was first given the go-ahead back in 2012, Britain's new high-speed rail line connecting the south, the Midlands and the north of England was predicted to cost £32.7bn. Now, after delays and i...
28 Sep 202321min
Consumption rooms: How much of a solution for Scotland’s drug problem?
Scotland will be home to the UK’s first so-called ‘consumption rooms’ where drug users will be able to get their fix more safely. Recent stats showed that despite a fall this year, Scotland still has ...
27 Sep 202322min
Should we be taking the Liberal Democrats seriously?
The Liberal Democrats conference in Bournemouth saw leader Sir Ed Davey hinting that his party would be prepared to do a post-election deal with Labour to prevent the Conservatives from forming a gove...
26 Sep 202329min
