Politics

Nurses are taking part in strikes across England until 23.59pm on Monday night - with A&E and cancer staff are joining the walkouts for the first time

The Cabinet Office 'objected to the idea that the taxpayer should foot the bill for what were basically a series of summer parties' held by Liz Truss at Chevening as she prepared for her disastrous stint in No10

The situation in Sudan is chaotic what is needed is clear thinking from the UK Government as they try to get everyone home safely

Keir Starmer told the Sunday Mirror he was committed to creating a national landlords database, to allow local authorities to more easily take action against unscrupulous property owners.

Bankers seem to be doing OK. The guy who runs British Gas got a £3.7million bonus last month. On top of his £790k salary

Labour's call comes amid growing pressure for Tory ministers to be banned from “interfering” in the selection process, while Shadow Culture Secretary Lucy Powell called for a “root and branch review” of the appointments process.

Paris Coulson, 19, is standing for in next week’s local elections in Long Eaton - but was axed by the party just days before polling day.

Labour Government’s Gambling Act of 2005 liberalised the industry and turned it into a £14bn blockbuster, but that legislation was never designed to put an entire Las Vegas on every person’s phone

More than one in four Physics lessons were taught by a non-expert teacher last year, rising to nearly one in five in French, German, Drama and DT, according to a Labour analysis

It is essential that measures are put in place to prevent future governments from deciding who runs the broadcaster - and Sharp’s departure should not allow Boris Johnson to wriggle off the hook

A three-month trial at South Cambridgeshire District found its performance was “broadly maintained” and was “overwhelmingly positive” for the health and well-being of staff

NAHT leader Paul Whiteman accused the Government of showing 'contempt' for kids by refusing to restart pay talks after the Government's offer was emphatically rejected by hard-pressed school staff

Labour said the PM had tried to “cover up the evidence of his incompetent management of the economy and his flagrant waste of public money” during his time as chancellor

Brian Reade on this week's slap in the face from the Bank of England's Huw Pill, hard to stomach when you consider the pay of FTSE 100 bosses surged 23% last year as ordinary folk flatlined

Tens of millions pounds from the fund meant to help revive high streets in deprived towns is instead being pumped into the Kent port to tackle Brexit-fuelled delays

A report by barrister Adam Heppinstall revealed that Richard Sharp spoke to Boris Johnson before applying for the BBC chairman role, and said days before the interview he met the Cabinet Secretary to chat about the then-PM's finances

The former MP Baroness Ruth Anderson urged Labour to root out abuse of Jews and instead focus on fighting the Conservatives, warning: "We're meant to be on the same side"

The Match Of The Day host said the BBC chairman should not be picked by the government 'not now, not ever' after Richard Sharp was forced to resign over Boris Johnson loan row

Emergency workers in Unite have joined the members of the Royal College of Nursing in rejecting the 5% pay rise. Ambulance staff are now planning to take more strike action

Richard Sharp - who awkwardly used to be Rishi Sunak's boss when he was an investment banker - has faced calls to quit since it emerged he helped Boris Johnson secure an £800,000 loan

Gio Spinella, who heads the Conservative group at Camden Council in North London, hit out at the loudmouth MP and admitted that all parties have "peculiar figures"

The General Secretaries of the four major teaching unions will gather today at the NAHT's conference in Telford, where they are expected to announce plans to coordinate their industrial action

Relations between schools and the education watchdog have dramatically deteriorated since the death of headteacher Ruth Perry, who killed herself in January while waiting for an Ofsted report that downgraded her school to inadequate

In an interview with The Mirror, shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said she and her colleagues are 'chomping at the bit' to get into Government and address failures piling misery on passengers

The tragedy has been described as the world’s forgotten famine - there must be international action before it is too late