Politics

Research reveals bosses believe the benefits are worth signing up to the voluntary scheme, which pays staff more than the Government's legal minimum

The senior doctors were already due to walkout this week but the BMA has now unveiled two more strikes dates for top medics next month

The Resolution Foundation think tank believe soaring interest rates have ended the property boom - the biggest fall in wealth since the Second World War

Researchers from the University of York found the cruel policies contributed to rising levels of child poverty in the 2010s and triggered a knock on impact on youngsters life chances

Businessman John Mills has written a pamphlet outlining how he believes the economy can be rebooted - and it includes chasing a growth target rather than an inflation goal

The Whitehall spending watchdog said the Government's New Hospital Programme 'has experienced delays and is expected to deliver 32 of the intended target of 40 new hospitals by 2030'

A cross-party committee of senior peers said former Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'showed no interest' in slashing the number of peers during his three years in office

A Tory former Minister staying to fight and lose power at the General Election named to me three more members of Rishi Sunak’s frontline team he expects to follow the Defence Secretary by jumping overboard.

Voters will go to the polls in the Selby and Ainsty by-election on Thursday after MP Nigel Adams quit after failing to secure a peerage in outgoing PM Boris Johnson’s honours

Six out of 10 (62%) voters want the Labour leader to throw his weight behind mounting calls to make free lunches universal for primary school pupils to ensure no child gets left behind

Ben Wallace, who marks four years as Defence Secretary on July 24, said his biggest worry as he prepares to stand down in the middle of a war in Europe was a military conflict with Moscow

Keir Starmer said Labour is 'not changing that policy' after mounting pressure from his own side to ditch the cruel two-child limit that has been blamed for pushing families into poverty

Former Labour Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair said 'private' shouldn't be seen as a 'dirty word' as he called for 'complete cooperation' between public and private sector in the NHS

Labour’s analysis of government figures found rocketing interest rates are now likely to require three times the £30,000 figure people had to save just a year ago

The top Tory, who was once tipped as a future Prime Minister, has said he won't stand at the next election, after 18 years as an MP

The Life 360 app is used by over three million households in the UK alone – and celebs including Tess Daly, Jamie Oliver and Gwyneth Paltrow , but charities warn they are being abused by stalkers

The UK’s biggest migrant camp opened its doors to the first 50 residents on Wednesday on a converted air base at Wethersfield, Essex

Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said it's shameful that 27 years after John Prescott asked why families are facing repossession, negative equity and homelessness, she had to ask the same question

Some of Boris Johnson's new neighbours aren't pleased the ex-prime minister has moved to their village, and they're taking their revenge by loudly flying the EU flag in their gardens

According to official labour market statistics, there were 230 fewer small and medium-sized housebuilders last year as there were in 2010 - as the building of new homes in the UK has fallen

Rishi Sunak faces a triple humiliation in Thursday's by-election bonanza - and the mood among his backbenchers remains grim

Members of the United Kingdom's armed forces are struggling to feed their families and pay the bills with the number of troops on Universal Credit shooting up by 30% in a year

After crashing the economy and tanking the pound with her disastrous mini budget last September, the failed former Prime Minister this week launched her ‘Growth Commission’ - a “task force” to “fix the economy”

As ministers prepare to jet off on extended summer holidays this week, the Chancellor is being urged to scrap the increase in duty on spirits on 1 August, and will add as much as 10p to the price of a G&T

The Committee on Standards in Public Life called for tighter rules for 'Unincorporated Associations' - but the government has shelved their report after accepting just a handful of their 47 recommendations