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Panicking Tories are announcing they'll stand down at a general election as Labour storms ahead in the polls - meanwhile Rishi Sunak faces a double by-election nightmare next month

The Labour leader says if he becomes PM he will recruit 1,000 Home Office caseworkers and a similar number to staff a fast-track returns unit to deal with the asylum backlog

The Government has already axed the proposed HS2 leg from Birmingham to Leeds, and now it is refusing to commit to extending the route to Manchester

Henri Murison, Chief Executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, writes for the Mirror that the move would be a 'betrayal that the Conservative Party may come to regret'

Some Chinese action 'crosses the line from influence to interference', ministers have conceded, as pressure mounts over allegations a Westminster aide was spying for Beijing

MPs said the country faces 'an enormous challenge' in improving access to primary care as he begged for stable, long-term and sustainable funding commitments for chemists

The mother of a teenager who died branded the unnamed politician 'a disgrace' after Theresa May revealed the MP had slipped into a closet rather than speak to victims' relatives

Ex-Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe called on the Government to take the drastic measure amid a spate of horror attacks on children and adults

Mirror Politics’ resident dog lover casts his expert eye over the entrants in the much-anticipated Westminster Dog of the Year Award, which saw MPs show off their four-legged friends

Campaigners called on Rishi Sunak to allocate government time for the key legislation to be debated after it was held up by Conservative backbenchers in the Lords

MPs from across the political spectrum showed off their four-legged friends while competing for the coveted Westminster Dog of the Year Award

Downing Street refused to guarantee the beleaguered HS2 high-speed railway line would run to Manchester as originally promised amid spiralling costs and delays

Leaving the EU has hardly been a success so far - but is it too late to turn back the clock and re-join?

The Commons Standards Committee has issued a ruling following an investigation into the Prime Minister and public statements issued by Downing Street

Community general secretary Roy Rickhuss and GMB leader Gary Smith have written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over electric arc furnaces at Tata's Port Talbot plant

The Labour leader is meeting police and prosecutors at Europol - the EU's law enforcement agency - where he wants to reach agreement on ways to stop small boats "before they get in the water"

We despair at the state of lawless Britain where people brazenly steal without any fear of the consequences, and we deplore how shopworkers are threatened for doing their job

Labour's Steve Reed called on Environment Secretary Therese Coffey to resign if her department is found to have broken the law through its regulation of sewage discharges

Boris Johnson stood down as an MP earlier this year ahead of a brutal report that found he lied and lied over Partygate after the Mirror exposed lockdown-busting gatherings in No10

France's Emmanuel Macon is expected to host the Labour leader at the Elysee Palace - in a blow to Rishi Sunak's efforts to build a bromance with the French President

Negotiations between Tata and the Government over taxpayer support for the plant are said to be progressing, with an announcement possibly due by the end of the week

Rishi Sunak branded the rise in shop thefts 'unacceptable' as he vowed to work with police chiefs to tackle the epidemic that is sweeping Britain's high streets

A debate will take place in Parliament to raise the alarm about hundreds of chemists shutting - as campaigners urge the Government to stump up more cash for the high street lifelines

The star, full name Annie Macmanus, told an inquiry into misogyny in the music industry that she was often 'the only girl' on line-ups and sound engineers would take up her personal space

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