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Nigel Morris

@NigelpMorris

Nigel Morris is Deputy Political Editor at The Independent.

Then agriculture Nick Brown faces the press after the NFU Great British Food Conference
News

Pages from history: ‘Don’t worry, everything’s under control’

Long Reads

Pages from history: EU bans exports after foot-and-mouth outbreak

Dave Brown’s cartoon – for more of his work follow the link below
Home News

Hillsborough police 'should be prosecuted' for role in the disaster

British Prime Minister David Cameron (right) and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
UK Politics

Corbyn says David Cameron has 'misled the public' and lost their trust

Steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta will proceed with caution in his talks with Tata
Business News

‘No early deal’ to rescue Tata’s threatened British steel plants

Political parties can no longer count on a voter's loyalty at the ballot box
UK Politics

The rules of politics have radically changed when it comes to voting

Jeremy Vine with his swingometer during the 2015 election
UK Politics

Britain 'is now a nation of swing voters'

Jon Trickett, left, with Jeremy Corbyn in Harlow on Tuesday
UK Politics

Labour campaign chief plays down expectations ahead of local elections

Refugees protest inside a detention center in Mytilene, Lesbos
Europe

UK to send just eight people to Greece to assist with EU refugee plan

Sajid Javid met with Wales Secretary Alun Cairns before flying to Mumbai
UK Politics

Sajid Javid to meet Tata bosses as hopes grow that jobs can be saved

Tata Steel has decided to put all of its British operations up for sale
UK Politics

British steel will need years of state support, warn unions

Sajid Javid faces mounting criticism over the steel crisis
UK Politics

Ministers hold talks with potential buyer for Tata Steel UK

Zanzibar’s new president, Ali Mohamed Shein, is sworn in after a controversial election
UK Politics

Tanzania receives £200m despite condemnation for rigged elections

UK Politics

Tanzania receives £200m despite condemnation for rigged elections

Zanzibar’s new president, Ali Mohamed Shein, is sworn in after a controversial election
The Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, is in a relationship with a woman
UK Politics

Response to Kezia Dugdale's coming out shows we’ve come a long way

Business Secretary Sajid Javid leaves Tata Steel in Port Talbot, South Wales
UK Politics

Javid challenged to 'pick up the phone to Beijing' over steel tariffs

Jeremy Corbyn speaks to the media outside the Tata steelworks in Port Talbot
Voices

Even Corbyn's critics admit he has done well in the Port Talbot crisis

Greenfield sites are seen as ‘more profitable’ by developers
Home News

Developers could force the release of profitable 'greenfield sites'

Greenfield sites are seen as ‘more profitable’ by developers
Home News

Developers could force the release of profitable 'greenfield sites'

The Grassroots Out campaign includes Ukip’s Nigel Farage
UK Politics

Rival groups go head to head for right lead Brexit campaign

Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn waits to give a television interview after speaking to Tata Steel workers at the Tata sports and social club close to the company's works at Port Talbot, south Wales
UK Politics

Corbyn challenges Government to take public stake in steel industry

Barrister Martha Spurrier has been named as the new head of campaign group Liberty
People

Equal rights barrister Martha Spurrier to become new Liberty director

700kg of radioactive waste will be sent to the US
Home News

How transatlantic nuclear ‘swap’ deal will help fight cancer

The average price of a funeral was £3,700 last year
Home News

Victorian-style 'paupers' funerals' could return to Britain

UK Politics

Cameron says nationalisation of steel industry is 'not the answer'

One former minister told The Independent: “It’s looking pretty grim at the moment"
UK Politics

Poor election showing could see Labour revolt against Corbyn

Boris Johnson at Gay Pride, London, in 2008
UK Politics

Boris Johnson urges gay people to vote to leave the EU

UK Politics

Cameron says nationalisation of steel industry is 'not the answer'

One former minister told The Independent: “It’s looking pretty grim at the moment"
UK Politics

Poor election showing could see Labour revolt against Corbyn

Boris Johnson at Gay Pride, London, in 2008
UK Politics

Boris Johnson urges gay people to vote to leave the EU

A residential tower block in Lambeth, south London
UK Politics

Government set for bruising in Lords over housing plans

UK Politics

Government set for bruising in Lords over housing plans

A residential tower block in Lambeth, south London
UK Politics

Osborne's Budget passed by MPs after Chancellor drops disability cuts

Where we’ve made a mistake, where we’ve got things wrong, we listen and learn. That is precisely what we have done."
UK Politics

Osborne repeatedly refuses to apologise for disability cuts

George Osborne watching a netball lesson at St Benedict’s Primary School in Garforth, Leeds
UK Politics

Osborne faces Commons defeat over plans to cut disability benefits

The Morris family at Williamson Park, Lancaster with daughter Seren
UK Politics

Lifetime Isa offers new saving incentive for young workers’ lifetime

The Morris family at Williamson Park, Lancaster with daughter Seren
UK Politics

Lifetime Isa offers new saving incentive for young workers’ lifetime

The 40p rate introduced in 1988 by Lord Lawson, when he was Chancellor in the Thatcher government
UK Politics

40p rate change the biggest cut since Margaret Thatcher

Protestors hold placards during an anti-trade union bill demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament
UK Politics

Government suffers Lords defeat over Trade Union Bill

Left-winger campaigner Michael Rosen mocked the government for failing to follow its own rules
UK Politics

School days to get longer as all schools forced to become academies

Disabled protestors demonstrate past the Houses of Parliament, in central London
UK Politics

Commons could be forced to debate disability cuts after petition

George Osborne visits a train maintenance plant in Crewe on the election campaign trail in 2015
UK Politics

Osborne set to give go-ahead to major new rail routes in Budget

Ken Clarke MP in his office
People

Ken Clarke receives record £430,000 for 'Great Gatsby' memoirs

Research suggesting that the super-rich's wealth has soared since the turn of the century adds weight to the calls for George Osborne to delay higher-rate tax cuts and target spare cash towards families on lower incomes
UK Politics

Wealth of super rich soars as the worst-off lose out, report says

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne appears on The Andrew Marr Show
UK Politics

Osborne hits out at Johnson for backing Brexit as Tory tensions grow

The Chancellor warned he would have to tighten the purse-strings further because 'the world is a more uncertain place than at any time since the financial crisis'
UK Politics

George Osborne announces fresh public spending cuts of £4bn

The term "Costa del Crime" was coined in the 1970's as British criminals would escape justice at home by moving to the spanish coast to live their lives in luxury
UK Politics

Brexit campaigners accused of risking return to 'Costa del Crime days'

Mr Obama took Downing Street by surprise when he hit out at Britain and France for failing to stop the north African state degenerating into a “s*** show”
UK Politics

US and UK play down tensions after Barack Obama 's*** show' comments

UK Politics

US and UK play down tensions after Barack Obama 's*** show' comments

Mr Obama took Downing Street by surprise when he hit out at Britain and France for failing to stop the north African state degenerating into a “s*** show”
Barack Obama said David Cameron had risked damaging the ‘special relationship’
UK Politics

Obama says David Cameron allowed Libya to become a 's*** show'

The average rise of council tax in England outside London is expected to be £54
Home News

Families face biggest council-tax increase in eight years

Immigrants to the UK take an oath before being presented with a certificate of citizenship during a 'Citizenship Ceremony' at City Hall, London
Home News

Worried EU nationals dash for UK citizenship amid Brexit fears

Unite union members dressed as Dickensian workers protesting against zero-hours contracts outside the headquarters of Sports Direct
UK Politics

One million UK workers 'will soon rely on zero-hours contracts'

Unite union members dressed as Dickensian workers protesting against zero-hours contracts outside the headquarters of Sports Direct
UK Politics

One million UK workers 'will soon rely on zero-hours contracts'

The plan suffered defeat despite David Cameron holding meetings with Tory rebels and ministers
UK Politics

Government defeated over Sunday trading bill

George Osborne: reform 'would help shops compete with online'
Home News

George Osborne could face defeat on round-the-clock Sunday shopping

Mark Carney insisted he was reflecting the views of the City, not the Chancellor or Prime Minister
Home News

Mark Carney says Brexit is Britain's 'biggest domestic risk'

Health News

More young people are turning teetotal, according to new research

Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, may be willing to offer cash to the major banks around the time of the EU referendum
Business News

Carney ready to pump billions into banks to counter turmoil of Brexit

UK Politics

Facebook 'may pay no extra tax for years' despite deal

Belgian police officers check cars at the border between France and Belgium
UK Politics

UK borders 'put at risk by delay to new system'

French President Francois Hollande gives a press conference at the Musee de Picardie in Amiens, northern France, during the 34th Franco-British summit
UK Politics

UK 'would be shut out of the EU single market in event of a Brexit'

Former shadow Business secretary Chuka Ummuna believes that the problems with gang culture are worsening
Voices

Gang culture is ignored because there are no votes in it

Laurence Robertson, Conservative MP for Tewkesbury stands in front of The Houses of Parliament with his dog, Sausage
UK Politics

Tory MP facing 'cash for access' accusations

Home News

Britons 'more likely than other Europeans to experiment with drugs'

Home News

Britons 'more likely than other Europeans to experiment with drugs'

Home News

Young adults 'will work until mid-70s before receiving state pension'

The Home Office ruled against Theresa May, and in favour of the men remaining in the UK
UK Politics

May tightens privacy protections in revised 'snooper's charter'

The independence of prison inspectors is to be guaranteed
Crime

Independence of prison inspectors to be safeguarded

Prime Minister David Cameron endured a Eurosceptic assault from his own MPs in the House of Commons
UK Politics

Tories back away from David Cameron in row over Europe

Prime Minister David Cameron endured a Eurosceptic assault from his own MPs in the House of Commons
UK Politics

Tories back away from David Cameron in row over Europe

Seventeen teenagers were murdered in London in 2015 as a result of gang activity
UK Politics

Government told to reverse decision to scrap anti-gang scheme

Michael Gove has been torn between his loyalty to the Prime Minister and his support for Brexit
UK Politics

Michael Gove among ministers preparing to break ranks and back Brexit

Mr Clegg’s failure to repeat the success of his 2010 debate performances was labelled as one of the factors
UK Politics

Lib Dem election disaster was caused by 'perfect storm', review finds

Home Secretary Theresa May
Comment

Theresa May's EU instincts are pointing only one way

Labour MPs are pressing the Corbyn leadership to allow a free vote on Trident renewal
UK Politics

Corbyn plan to address anti-Trident rally risks clash with Labour MPs

A report last January found that 212 acts of violence had been recorded in the previous six months at Wetherby. File photo
Crime

Wetherby prison in lockdown after officers suffer spate of assaults

London Mayor Boris Johnson at a residential development site last year
UK Politics

London Mayor 'should buy up empty premises to fix housing crisis'

Ukip leader Nigel Farage speaks to the media at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday
UK Politics

Campaigners form coalition aiming to become official Brexit group

The National Trust recently spent £375,000 to refurbish Dorneywood. The home is opened to the public for a few days a year
UK Politics

Osborne under scrutiny to reveal who stayed at his Dorneywood house

European Council President Donald Tusk was speaking in Bucharest, in Romania for talks with the President Klaus Iohannis
UK Politics

Risk of EU breaking up is 'real', European Council President admits

Armed officers from the British Transport Police.
UK Politics

Osborne 'risking security' by cutting £3m from Transport Police

The major political parties will hold talks with the Boundary Commission when work gets under way later this month
UK Politics

Tories accused of ''fixing electoral system' over boundary review

Critics are warning that the closure of courthouses will increase the number of people without easy access to courts
Home News

Ministry of Justice cost-cutting prompts closure of 86 more courts

Isa Dare and an unidentified Isis militant believed to be a British teenager in a propaganda video released in February 2016
Home News

Isis video of child 'killing three spies shows they're under pressure'

Nick Clegg has accused Theresa May of attempting to alter a report by deleting sentences
UK Politics

Nick Clegg backs campaign to legalise the medical use of cannabis

Refugees arrive by train at the transit center for refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, before continuing their journey to Serbia
UK Politics

European chief's stark warning over scale of refugee crisis

Isa Dare and an unidentified Isis militant believed to be a British teenager in a propaganda video released in February 2016
Home News

Isis video of child 'killing three spies shows they're under pressure'

Nick Clegg has accused Theresa May of attempting to alter a report by deleting sentences
UK Politics

Nick Clegg backs campaign to legalise the medical use of cannabis

Refugees arrive by train at the transit center for refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, before continuing their journey to Serbia
UK Politics

European chief's stark warning over scale of refugee crisis

The ISC is worried by the 'inconsistent and largely incomprehensible' approach to 'data collection'
Tech

MPs urge Theresa May to rewrite key sections of Snooper's Charter

David Cameron tours HMP Onley with prison governor Stephen Ruddy before his speech on prison reform
UK Politics

Cameron wants ‘secure schools’ for teenage offenders instead of prison

Campaign spending in by-elections is limited to £100,000 to ensure a level playing-field
UK Politics

Tories 'flouted law by failing to declare spending on by-elections'

Tory leader Ruth Davidson risks a confrontation with George Osborne
UK Politics

Google shows us 'one tax rule for the top and one for the rest’

Labour MP Harry Harpham, who represented Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, has died after a fight with cancer,
UK Politics

Death of Labour MP triggers Sheffield by-election

Eurosceptic Tory MPs and newspapers have also branded the deal “thin gruel” and “a joke”
UK Politics

High-profile Vote Leave members quit 'Brexit' group

David Cameron meets the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz in 10 Downing Street
UK Politics

Cameron warned he could face 'serious roadblock' over EU reforms

David Cameron meets the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz in Downing Street
UK Politics

Culture Secretary may defy Cameron by backing Brexit

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