Politics

Macmillan Cancer Care has given grants to cancer patients to help with their additional costs for around a century - but they are having to chop £50 off the grant due to huge numbers of applications

Extremists aim to 'capitalise' on comments made by Suella Braverman about immigration, that being discriminated against for being gay or a woman should not guarantee refugee status

Keir Mudie says Suella Braverman has been taking her act on the road this week to test it out before her big speech on Tuesday and becoming increasingly unhinged in the process

The multi-millionaire's pay check for the controversial news channel - which is equivalent to a £356,000 full-time salary - is in addition to the £86,584 salary Jacob Rees-Mogg earns

Simon Danczuk and his wife Claudine got married in Rwanda over the summer and are having a UK ceremony at the end of October - then, they plan to adopt a baby from her homeland

The PM faces a number of hurdles this week with a divided party after 13 years in power, with doubts looming over HS2, speeches by former PMs, and a protest just outside the conference centre

How has the region that was the ­backbone of the industrial revolution sunk from being one of the world’s richest to one of Europe’s poorest?

The PM will unveil plans for a roads spending bonanza at Conservative Party conference as he faces accusations he's doing the dirty on the North by cancelling HS2 to Manchester

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The House of Commons Library calculated that £90.3billion more cash would have been injected into the armed forces if the Conservatives stuck with spending 2.5% of GDP on defence

The Government insisted it was not going to axe the lifeline following reports Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was drawing up plans that would have meant only the very poorest OAPs would still be eligible

Labour criticised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for trying to portray himself as a friend of drivers as he prepares to block English councils from imposing 20mph speed limits

Security staff were pictured checking over crates of plonk as Tory faithful, MPs and ministers prepare to descend on Manchester for the annual Conservative Party Conference

Local authorities are grappling with a collective “hole” of £3.5billion in their finances, meaning they could be forced to make cuts to vital services

Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found the Conservative Government has presided over the biggest set of tax rises in a single parliament since the Second World War

Rishi Sunak told the Westminster Correspondents Dinner that Liz Truss had been 'quietly reflecting' on what went wrong - and quipped that he was tightening online safety rules to protect the public from Matt Hancock's TikTok antics

A new report by UK 2040 Options and The Resolution Foundation found that the richest 1% earn 13% of the UK’s total income, with huge differences according to where people live and their ethnicity

The Runnymede Trust warned 'urgent action must be taken to boost racial literacy and address discrimination in our schools' in a manifesto with recommendations for politicians

New figures reveal 911,000 over-55s withdrew £13billion using their "pensions freedoms" last year, sparking fears that future retirees face financial misery

Questioned yesterday, he refused to endorse her claim about multiculturalism - if he disagrees so profoundly with her views he should not have her in his Cabinet

Cash-strapped councils are grappling with a £3.5billion funding black hole for next year, risking cuts to jobs and vital services as town halls struggle to balance the books

King, a young woman who fled persecution in her homeland, has said she is alarmed after the Home Secretary said being gay or a woman facing discrimination isn't enough to grant asylum

In a clear sign of a split with the under-fire Home Secretary, the Prime Minister described the UK as a 'fantastic multicultural democracy' during interviews on Thursday

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said it was 'shocking and shameful' that kids face yet more disruption to their education after Covid due to the RAAC concrete crisis

Labour leader Keir Starmer said the challenges around the world 'are too great' and that the 'important, special relationship' between the UK and the US must be maintained