Politics

Rishi Sunak will carry out a limited Cabinet reshuffle after Ben Wallace said he would step down as Defence Secretary, leaving a big job to be filled in the Prime Minister's top team

According to a new analysis, 28% of claimants required to switch to Universal Credit between November 2022 and March this year did not do so - and their benefits were stopped

Drawing on responses from over 9,000 teachers, the charity FareShare said teachers across England 'feel they have no choice but to step in to help hungry children'

The Home Office has said it has no intention of setting up 'safe consumption facilities' where people can inject drugs under medical supervision - which MPs say will lower the risk of overdoses

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting said record numbers of people are 'spending their final months in pain and agony, waiting for treatment that never arrives'

Bombshell new research found many under-16s are forced to wait for years in limbo, constantly fearful of being detained and deported, as their asylum application is decided

As the RMT prepares to hold a rally in Whitehall, responses to the public consultation on plans to shut ticket offices at 974 railway stations have hit half a million

The government has been urged to ensure the King delivers new medal personally, and to compensate victims of the testing

Latest Home Office figures reveal 300 people made the dangerous journey across the Channel on Tuesday, bringing the number of people reaching the UK by small boat this year to 20,101

Labour told ministers to 'stop dragging their feet' and give legal powers to the regulator to slap financial penalties on flight operators that refuse to compensate passengers

This week, the UN Commission on the Rights of Disabled People committee took place but there was one notable absence - the UK's Minister Disabled People, Health and Work

The Prime Minister, who has been accused of jetting around on the taxpayer 'like an A-list celeb', shunned public transport for the visit to a new-build housing estate

Boosting NHS staffing to the required levels would require a return to annual Government funding rises of 3.6% - not seen for more than a decade, say the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Hiding behind small print and loopholes to avoid covering costs and awarding compensation will be unacceptable to those suffering after the air traffic control IT meltdown

The top Tory resigned from Government when Rishi Sunak took over in October - and has since taken on a string of lucrative outside roles, earning at least £150,000 on top of his £86,584-a-year MP salary

Demonstrators held placards outside the Department for Transport as they demanded Government-backed plans to close nearly 1,000 station ticket offices across England are scrapped

Environmental campaigners warned plans to tear up 'nutrient neutrality' laws wouldn't fix the housing crisis and instead 'result in is lots more poo in our rivers'

The former Tory Cabinet Minister and close ally of Boris Johnson first declared she was quitting almost 12 weeks ago. On Tuesday she ended weeks of mystery over her position with news of her 'new job'

Hundreds of flights were cancelled when a technical glitch with the UK's air traffic control system on Monday forced controllers to input flight plans manually - with disruption expected for days

After months of bitter arguments and a surprising Conservative by-election victory in Boris Johnson's old seat, the controversial expansion comes into effect on Tuesday

He was a secretary of the parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 2004, then became a member of the House of Lords

More than 460,000 people have responded to a consultation into planned closures, which will hit the elderly, vulnerable and disabled - and put more than 2,300 station jobs at risk

Documents written by the rail companies themselves lay bare the true impact of the railway ticket office closures on disabled, elderly and vulnerable passengers

Dr Chandra Kanneganti, a GP who is standing for the Tories in Stoke-on-Trent Central, said family doctors are 'already feeling like they've become the 'Alexa' of primary care with the incessant requests' in an attack on Labour's plans

The United Nations will review the UK Government’s progress in improving the lives of disabled people after a review in 2016 found that it was guilty of 'grave and systematic' violations of the UN’s disability convention