Sebastian Payne

The future of driving is meant to be electric so why is the biggest car-sharing company, whose fleet was a third EVs, disappearing from our streets?

Greater Manchester’s Sir Stephen Watson has transformed a failing force with his back-to-basics approach — it’s a blueprint for other cities

Polls show she is now the most popular party leader — now it’s time to shake up the Conservatives and appeal to younger voters

Though it started strong, the party’s mix of confused policy, questionable candidates and pointless gimmicks risk it going the way of Ukip

New polling finds a radical female cohort passionately dislike this country and the society they live in, and will be overwhelmingly voting Green

Freedom in the Arts argues artists are being targeted not for political beliefs but simply for their identity, with Jewish artists facing ‘wave of boycotts’

A grand tour of Europe, from the Netherlands to Spain, with a stop at a new luxury hotel on Lake Como, was the best start to married life for Sebastian Payne

In the absence of a national unifying figure such as Martin Bell of old, it falls to a certain novelty candidate to take on Reform UK’s leader in Clacton

To stay in power, Labour would need to hold its seats in the south of England, which makes the new prime minister’s northern bias all the more perilous

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