Politics

Ministers are plotting a new tax on vaping to make it harder for kids to get their hands on e-cigarettes after countries including Germany and Italy introduced levies

Business Minister Nusrat Ghani was hauled to Parliament for a grilling over plans to shut blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, which comes weeks after Tata announced a similar move at Port Talbot

Lord Mark Sedwill, who was Cabinet Secretary at the start of the pandemic, admitted emergency planners "couldn't cope" with the crisis and warned of "stupid decisions" in a dispute over Mr Cummings' data

Britain’s biggest foodbank network, the Trussell Trust, has given out a record 1.5million emergency parcels in just six months, and warned winter will get even worse

Labour will highlight the stark figure during a debate on the King's Speech warning there could be a 'lost generation of school children' without major action from Government

The King's Speech was full of holes with Charles surely deserving a better address at the first state opening of Parliament and it was an indication of Rishi Sunak's Government falling apart

The Tories are so out of touch after 13 years their hopes are vanishing. The glaring missed opportunities would see a footballer dropped, ordered to train with kids and told told to replace square boots.

The ex-PM's former chief-of-staff Edward Lister also told the Covid Inquiry he recalled Mr Johnson saying 'let the bodies pile high' in the summer of 2020 than impose another lockdown

The Labour leader warned the Conservatives offered 'only gimmicks, division, and more of the same' after the Government's plans for new laws were set out in the King's Speech

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, including in the King's Speech, will see the legal age for buying cigarettes rise by one year every year with new restrictions on vaping

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will chair the meeting, expected to include intelligence service and police chiefs amid heightened tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict

Documents released alongside the King's Speech reveal the Government is considering a new duty on vape sales and a ban on disposable devices alongside a new cigarette ban

The exchange of pleasantries between the PM and Labour leader came ahead of the monarch's address to Parliament setting out the Government's agenda ahead of the next general election

Rishi Sunak has drawn up a list of 20 planned new laws, but the blueprint announced in the King's Speech doesn't include promised bans on trophy hunting and conversion therapy

King Charles today read out the Government's plans as Rishi Sunak desperately tries to cling to power, with a cigarette sale ban and a shake-up of renting rules among measures announced

King Charles outlined the government's proposed laws at the State Opening of Parliament today, which highlighted plans to ban smoking and grant judges extra powers

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi accused her party of having long 'failed' to respond to and support victims following claims that rape allegations against an MP were covered up

Black Rod is actually a person who performs an important function in Parliament and will be seen in today's ceremony as the Government's plans are announced in the King's Speech

Minimum service levels, restricting rights to strike, will be introduced for ambulance, rail and Border Force staff, but unions have claimed they are 'unworkable'

Plans to force criminals to attend sentencing hearings and changes to leasehold rules will be announced as the King reads out the laws Rishi Sunak wants to pass before the election

The Home Secretary's latest divisive statement is that sleeping rough is a "lifestyle choice"

Dr Ben Warner, who scrawled the word in a February 2020 meeting with scientists, said ministers should have drawn up lockdown plans as soon as China and Italy did so

Tory peer Baroness Mone has finally admitted to her role in a £200m government PPE deal alongside her billionaire husband Doug Barrowman after the Mirror exposed their involvement with firm PPE Medpro

Last autumn there were an average of 3,069 people sleeping rough in England - up from 1,768 in 2010, as pressure piles on Rishi Sunak to distance himself from the Home Secretary

The shamed former Prime Minister is claimed to have made the remark in a meeting in January 2021, when he demanded restrictions were fully lifted by September