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A number of Labour MPs in rural seats declined to back the government's move to impose inheritance tax on farmers, but just one voted against.

Sir Brian Leveson told Sky's Politics Hub that the government plan to restrict jury trials will mean at least a "20% time saving" and help tackle the courts backlog.

Sky News analysis finds responsibility for as many as three quarters of trials that would have been decided by juries could be transferred to judges or magistrates if proposed justice reforms become law.

The China spy case collapse caused a blame game between the government, the CPS, and the Conservatives, who were in power when the case began.

The UK government has again delayed its decision over whether to approve a Chinese "super embassy" in London until January.

Answers from the estate and the Treasury about the Royal Lodge in Windsor, where Mr Mountbatten-Windsor pays a peppercorn rent, have prompted the new scrutiny from Parliament's public accounts committee ...

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Defendants who will likely get a sentence of three years or less will no longer get a jury trial, the justice secretary has announced.

Sky News podcast The Wargame returns to uncover what happened behind the scenes as the UK switched funding from warfare to peacetime priorities, as told by defence secretaries who oversaw it.