Politics

The outspoken Tory deputy chairman had been set to speak at an event outlining a list of immigration demands by 20 MPs - but did not appear and instead spent some of his morning arguing with the Reform UK leader

The former investment banker, who held a string of top Government jobs, said the £86,000-a-year basic salary for MPs was 'a lot of money - more than double the national average - but you get what you pay for'

The Uxbridge by-election has a predictable parade of lunatic candidates, says Fleet Street Fox. Count Binface is not one of them

It comes as the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) watchdog found drivers paid an extra 6p per litre for fuel last year amid increased supermarket profit margins

The Partygate investigator was last week cleared to start her new job in September - but today a minister announced she'd had "undeclared contact" with Labour before quitting

The media regulator received 40 complaints objecting to former Tory Cabinet Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg acting as a newsreader during his State Of The Nation show on GB News on May 9

The flash-in-a-pan former PM will head a new Growth Commission, made of economists from around the globe, in a bid to address a "stagnation loop" facing the West

Nurses, ambulance workers, physiotherapists and doctors have all headed to the picket lines as ministers stand accused of failing to properly appreciate NHS workers

The head of the British Medical Association warned the 'loss of trust' between doctors and the Government is the worst it has been in his 30 years in the profession

In a challenge to Rishi Sunak’s authority, Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson will speak at the launch of the New Conservatives Group that wants to block social care workers getting visas

Daily Mirror's Kevin Maguire has urged the Labour party to put free school meals at the front and centre of their election pledge, at a time when their leader seems opposed to it

Labour has announced plans to raise standard in struggling schools and their reforms sound promising, although the devil will as ever be in the detail

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said new improvement teams will target poorer areas as figures show ­children from those ­backgrounds are almost twice as likely to go to an ­inadequate school

Local councillor Steve Tuckwell opposed measures to help reduce poverty despite the cost of living crisis causing food bank usage rise in his community

The hypocritical Conservative deputy chairman has begun hosting a weekly programme on GB News despite previously ranting about MPs taking second jobs

Alun Francis who grew up in poverty criticised successive governments for failing for decades to grasp the vital role geography plays in social mobility

Keir Starmer and his Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will this week pledge 'world-class teaching for every child' in a major speech on education

Rishi Sunak and his Government have changed student loan funding to cut the state’s contribution from 44p in the pound to 19p from September, leaving students to pay off their loans from when they earn £25,000 a year

The PM's girl Anoushka, 10, attends £22,000-a-year Glendower Prep in South Kensington, London – where pupils enjoy a menu that bosses boast 'can’t be bettered'

The mega-rich PM who is worth more than half a billion pounds picked the cheapest wine from the House of Commons shop to donate to Leyburn Primary School in his constituency

Opponents of the Mirror-backed legislation held a briefing in a Palace of Westminster committee room where they outlined why they believed the plan would not work

'There are more than four million children in this country who grow up in poverty – just shy of a third of all kids, in every class of 30 there are nine - it’s an obscene statistic'

Monday marks the fifth anniversary of Theresa May first pledging to ban the practice - a promise that has been the victim of U-turns and repeated delays

Now that Thames Water is at risk of going under, they think they should get help from the government- meaning we taxpayers would be paying to clean up their mess.

Local government minister Lee Rowley ordered the Liberal Democrat leader of South Cambridgeshire District Council to end the trial over the coming weeks