Politics

Voters head to the polls on October 19 to replace Boris Johnson loyalist Nadine Dorries and disgraced ex-whip Chris Pincher in a potential headache for the Tories

Labour leader Keir Starmer attacked the Prime Minister for constantly 'protesting that nothing is his fault and trying to tell anyone who is still listening that everything is great'

The state pension is due for a bumper rise next year as the typical wage increased by 8.5%, but the Conservatives have hinted this could be slashed to 7.8% instead

Wildlife activists hit out at Conservative backbenchers who they accused of delaying progress in getting the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill into law

A Government minster insisted the party acted swiftly after chiefs from the intelligence agency warned about the possibility the MP hopefuls were agents for Beijing

Frontbencher Stephen Kinnock issued the plea to the Government as he addressed industry experts at the UK Metals Expo in Birmingham and outlined Labour's plan for the sector

Addressing MPs the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union general secretary said the cull was "designed to be rammed through while people were looking back the other way"

Birmingham Council, which declared itself effectively bankrupt last week over a £650million blackhole, is far from England's least financially stable local authority, a report shows

Former Tory Chancellor George Osborne said this morning he would be "very tempted" not to give the bumper state pension rise - expected to be 8.5% - if he was still in post

The Local Government Association has warned that costs will fall on ordinary taxpayers unless Parliament is given time to approve regulations to raise fees for developers

Two reports by the Electoral Commission and theLocal Government Information Unit warn of the added pressure on polling station staff because of voter identification rules

Damning research shows as many as 330,000 retirees stopped working because they couldn’t access flexible working - the equivalent to 25% of the vacancies in the UK economy today

GMB General Secretary Gary Smith said Keir Starmer had 'got it wrong' with a pledge to ban new North Sea oil and gas licences but Labour could level up the country after Tory failings

GMB General Secretary Gary Smith said the state of public buildings was 'a metaphor for what this government, for what the Tories have done for this country'

Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh urged Rail Minister Huw Merriman to 'come clean' after she took apart his claims about the closure of rail ticket offices

In 2023, 427 bank branches have closed, with 220 scheduled later this year - and this trend being allowed to continue would have stark consequences, writes Gary Smith

Commuters are set to be hammered by the highest annual increase since 1996, analysis showed, after average wage figures were released this morning

Ministers are understood to be scrambling to work out ways to pay less after bonuses paid to NHS staff and civil servants drove average wage increases up to 8.5%

Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry would be responsible for providing the Prime Minister with crunch legal advice if Labour wins the next election, due by January 2025

Labour's Angela Rayner made a 'cast iron commitment' to an Employment Rights Bill and to repealing anti-union legislation within the first 100 days in Government

Experts warn high interest rates are having a chilling effect on the jobs market after figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the unemployment rate has risen to 4.3%

Ministers have been accused of letting perpetrators get away with "environmental vandalism on an industrial scale" following a report by the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP)

Average pay - including bonuses - went up by 8.5% between May and June, new data shows. This means the state pension is likely to go up by at least the same amount

Most-capped Lioness Fara Williams and former The Only Way is Essex star Georgia Kousoulou will join the discussion about the impact of trolling and other forms of harmful abuse

In her first speech as Shadow Levelling Up Secretary, Angela Rayner will warn that 'false promises' and 'sound bites' from the Tories have left the British public feeling 'levelled down'