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The Covid Inquiry has been shown WhatsApps, including messages between Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance accusing Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson of rewriting history

The House of Lords was told that routes from the British mainland to islands around the coast were ideal for flights of battery-electric and hydrogen powered planes

Labour leader Keir Starmer led tributes former Chancellor Alistair Darling, who died after spending time in hospital in Edinburgh being treated for cancer

RMT union members have backed a deal to end their strikes, but there will still be major disruption on the railways in the coming days as a different union stages industrial action

Former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair was among British political leaders paying tribute to former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who has died aged 100

Matt Hancock will be grilled under oath at the Covid Inquiry this morning. The former Health Secretary has been accused of repeatedly failing to tell the truth during the crisis

The Covid Inquiry has been shown extracts of the diary of Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance that show how Boris Johnson became frustrated with restrictions

Home Office chief Sir Matthew Rycroft told MPs that there are 'additional' payments agreed with Rwanda on top of the £140million already handed over - and Tory Lee Anderson was among those voicing his anger

Ex-Health Secretary Sajid Javid said Boris Johnson's Downing Street became 'toxic', 'dysfunctional' and 'feral' - and Dominic Cummings 'sought to act as Prime Minister'

The Tories boasted about the 0.7% overseas aid goal in their general election manifesto. But Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said restoring the target in the next five years is not 'possible'.

Rishi Sunak and David Cameron have been accused of 'sending the wrong signals' to the rest of the world by travelling separately to the United Arab Emirates for the COP28 summit

The council has issued a Section 114 notice, which is a formal declaration it cannot balance its books. We'll be bringing you the latest updates on this Breaking Politics News story

A former Tory minister confronted Rishi Sunak at Prime Minister's Questions to tell him 'enough is enough' and more needs to be done to tackle anti-Muslim hatred

The unfortunate moment prompted laughter from MPs as Rishi Sunak attempted to deliver his final response to Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions

Michael Gove, who was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the pandemic, is giving evidence at the Covid Inquiry. He chaired key meetings of ministers during the pandemic

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clashed at Prime Minister's Questions, where the PM accused his Greek counterpart of grandstanding over the Elgin Marbles

The Tories promised to build 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s. But the target has never been met and there have been warnings the number could plummet next year

The Children’s Commissioner is demanding the Home Office stop accommodating unaccompanied children in hotels as it's warned some are victims of rape, torture or organ harvesting

US nuclear weapons are expected to return to the UK after 15 years following a visit to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk by American Deputy Defence Secretary Kathleen Hicks

Environment Secretary Steve Barclay has announced the search for a 16th National Park will begin early next year, but with plenty of areas in the running, where could it be created?

Rishi Sunak's radical plan to phase out smoking by banning young people born after January 1, 2009, from ever buying tobacco is opposed by just 14% of adults, new polling shows

The Government has confirmed how working parents with two-year-old children can register for 15 hours of free childcare a week, with more set to become eligible later next year

Senior Tory Michael Gove apologised to families who lost loved ones for the mistakes made during the Covid pandemic as messages from Dominic Cummings were shown to the Covid Inquiry

More than 100 documents about blood and urine tests of troops which the MoD previously denied existed will be reviewed, Parliament has been told

Unions accused the Government of being 'disingenuous and cynical' after calling time on weeks of talks over draconian minimum service levels in schools without warning