Politics

The hotly anticipated 'battle of the gingers' wasn't so much 'Holly vs Phil' as it was 'Angela Rayner vs two kids in a trenchcoat'

While many activists rail against Conservative policies, there are, as Jacob Rees-Mogg points out, many Disabled people who do still vote Tory

The Labour leader said he would give the go ahead to building on green belt land to ease Britain's chronic housing crisis and make homes more affordable, if he becomes Prime Minister

Bassetlaw MP Brendan Clarke-Smith, who previously said firefighters using foodbanks should 'learn how to budget', became the latest politician to offer advice to families struggling with the spiralling cost of living

In his first stint standing in for Rishi Sunak, the Deputy PM made a cringe comparison to the This Morning presenters, who are claimed to be all smiles on the surface but fighting behind the scenes

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says the 'Tories have let us down very, very badly' and claims the UK is now 'driving business away'.

In a feisty PMQs exchange, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner, who was a single mum at 16, said the Government was 'taking a wrecking ball' to measures to help kids out of poverty

David Starkey, who has previously made a number of unpleasant remarks about race, claimed groups like Black Lives Matter are trying to "destroy white culture" at the National Conservatism Conference - which has hosted a number of senior Tories including Suella Braverman and Michael Gove

The Prime Minister and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to bolster cooperation in tackling illegal migration across the Strait of Dover - the world's busiest shipping lane

The Prime Minister could face three polls in the coming months as the disgraced former PM rewards allies including his biggest cheerleader Nadine Dorries

Rishi Sunak and Dutch PM Mark Rutte have agreed to build an "international coalition" to secure F-16 warplanes for Kyiv as it tries to recapture territory from Russia

The Royal United Services Institute think tank warned the PM will have to find billions of pounds to pay for his pledge to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP

Cheaper tickets due to end next month will now remain until almost the end of 2024 after transport ministers got the Treasury to agree to a £500million package of funding to help protect bus services

Tycoon Javad Marandi donated over half a million pounds to the Tories between 2019 and 2020 while Boris Johnson was leader, Electoral Commission records show

Writing in the Mirror, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham reveals plan to encourage more youngsters to study subjects such as engineering and computer science

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham wants students to pick GCSE subjects that will help them to get good jobs in the local economy without the need for university

The Labour leader will attempt to capitalise on Tory failures over the housing crisis after Rishi Sunak bowed to pressure from his own MPs to scrap house-building targets last year

The former Prime Minister will become the first ex-UK premier to visit the breakaway island for 27 years, following in the footsteps of idol, Margaret Thatcher

Take former Conservative Minister and MP Ann Widdecombe, who is presumably not personally short of money

The Shadow Health Secretary added he was lucky he survived his own scare after kidney cancer was picked up by chance, aged 38

The ex-minister's condescending answer to being told the price of cheese sandwiches has risen by up to 101% was for people to stop making them

Former chief Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost will tell an audience of right wingers at the National Conservatism Conference that plenty have 'accumulated unearned wealth' under the Conservatives, but many are 'locked out'

The PM is set to meet the head of the European Court of Human Rights, Siofra O'Leary in a desperate bid to get the deportation flights - branded a "gimmick" by critics - in the air

Only 73% of first-class mail gets there the next day – but my parcel took 18 days to cross London, says Polly Hudson

Health chiefs from countries which have given ill people control over how they die shared a range of experiences in a debate on a potential change to the law in the UK