Politics

New analysis released today reveals that new home approvals are up 8% in London since 2016 while they are down 14% in the rest of England

A new report commissioned by campaign group Unlock Democracy found as many as 1 in 7 UK citizens may not be properly registered to vote. That’s a figure equivalent to the populations of Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, Essex, Glasgow, Greater Manchester, Leeds and Staffordshire combined

With the Prime Minister already facing revolt on his backbenches over immigration, the return of David Cameron has been met with stony silence by Tories in the North and Midlands

Using Beatles-style AI wizardry, the Sunday Mirror has cleaned up an audio recording of Labour's Alex Cunningham's question about Stockton in House of Commons - and James Cleverly's "unparliamentary" jibe allowing voters to listen to the remark in crystal clarity and decide for themselves

The local Conservative party of Lee Rowley, who became housing minister for the second time after Rishi Sunak's reshuffle, was handed £2,500 from businesswoman Lubov Chernukhin

Keir Mudie had a pint with Nigel Farage a few years ago when he was on the campaign trial in Kent - and described him as 'very pleasant, good company, totally plausible'

In a speech in Blackpool, Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner will warn that Red Wall seats in the North and the Midlands have been treated as a 'bargaining chip to get into power and tossed aside'

Instead of investing to fix up schools across England, Tories decided to slash the budget for repairs by £1.5billion just months after thousands of school children had their education disrupted due to unsafe buildings

Documents show civil servants demanding rewrites of a scientific analysis, over fears it would give nuclear veterans "a bonanza"

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveiled plans for a deep squeeze for public services in the Autumn Statement, paving the way for a period of renewed austerity after the next election

The former Tory Prime Minister piled pressure on Rishi Sunak to bring down net migration, which rose to 745,000 in the year to December 2022 - mostly on his watch

Multi-millionaire Prime Minister Rishi Sunak used the hammer on its side as he tried to help make a piece of jewellery on a visit to a studio in West Yorkshire

They told us the 2016 Brexit referendum would control immigration, says Fleet Street Fox. It did the opposite

The Prime Minister was pressed about whether his plans to create a smoke-free generation were still in gear after New Zealand - which spearheaded the idea - rolled back

In a desperate attempt to improve polling ratings, Rishi Sunak could hold an early Spring Budget in February so tax cuts have enough time to improve people's finances

James Cleverly - who this week allegedly called Stockton a 'sh**thole' - is not the only Tory MP to have been accused of dissing or smearing areas across the UK

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was accused of taking the public for fools after he announced tax cuts that will still leave millions of people worse off in his Autumn Statement

A Unison survey of more than 13,000 support staff such as teaching assistants, caterers and cleaners found nearly all (96%) worry their pay isn't enough to cover their bills

At the Covid Inquiry, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch said there was a fear in some ethnic minority communities that the Government was trying to harm people through the vaccine

At the Covid Inquiry, Dame Angela McLean, who branded Rishi Sunak 'Dr Death' in WhatsApps, said ministers 'made the same mistake three times' by locking down too late

Home Secretary James Cleverly has denied making the remark but the Conservative Mayor of the Tees Valley Ben Houchen accused him of 'dragging Stockton's name through the mud'

Brexit has once again returned to TV screens during Nigel Farage's stint on ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out - meanwhile a study suggests being clever is linked to voting habits

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock will appear at the Covid Inquiry next week alongside the ex-Deputy PM Dominic Raab and a host of city mayors including Andy Burnham

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said reductions in national insurance and a tax break for firms announced in the Autumn Statement would be offset by higher for longer inflation

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show 1.2 million people moved to the UK and 508,000 left in the year to June 2023 - meaning 672,000 more people arrived that departed