Politics

Paul Routledge on the latest Conservative farce, the failure to bring home thousands of Brits from war-torn Sudan – and it's all down to a lack of governing by the Government, the job that comes with the job

In 2013, no one had heard of Daniel Blake yet. Now the North East, where the 2016 film shone a light on austerity, is a 'hot spot' for food parcels

Brits told a focus group that it was "crazy" how rich Rishi Sunak is and admitted his vast amounts of wealth make him "out of touch" - Rishi Sunak is the first PM in history to be included in an annual list of the UK's top 250 richest people

Labour's Rachel Reeves warned that ordinary families are paying the price of 13 years of low-growth and high taxes under this Conservative government

Writing for the Mirror, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves vows that a Labour government would help workers by kickstarting Britain's economy after years of Tory failure

The RMT rail union announced a new strike date after rejecting the latest pay offer from the Rail Delivery Group

Akshata Murty wore a pair of Gucci shoes adorned with gold buckles in the shape of the designer brand's logo she posed for pictures holding a Vote Conservative sign

Punters who lose large sums of money online will face credit checks, while gambling firms will be forced to stump up cash to pay for NHS treatment for addicts

Jason Isaacs - who played the villain Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise - pleaded with people to vote in local elections next Thursday as he warned about potential Tory voter suppression

A senior Labour backbencher warned the Government that different systems in operation at polling stations across the country may confuse figures about the real number of people denied a vote

It’s great that Mattel has taken such care to represent a Disabled person as true to life. But it’s still presenting non-Disabled people with an unachievable ideal of beauty in traditional Barbie

Han Zheng, who was recently appointed as president Xi Jinping's deputy, will represent China at King Charles's Coronation on May 6 - provoking anger from top Tories over his role in a crackdown of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong

Health Secretary Steve Barclay took the Royal College of Nursing to court after warning the union does not have a mandate to stage the walkout beginning this weekend

The Aslef union announced three new strikes, including on Saturday, June 3

The former Labour leader accused the Conservatives of failing the UK's nations and regions in a report from the Centre think tank demanding more devolution

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told British nationals wanting to leave the war-torn country to "move now" as he admitted he could not guarantee the ceasefire would even hold until tonight

Members of the National Education Union (NEU) will take part in strike actions in schools across England today after rejecting the Government’s 'insulting' pay offer

School spending in England has been ravaged by Tory cuts and is now 3% lower than it was in 2010. Over the same period the backlog for repairs to school buildings has doubled to £11billion

Richard Drax - who said opponents are considering legal action against the Home Office plans - claims he wasn't consulted before Home Secretary Suella Braverman told him of the plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset

Critics accused the Government of not having 'a shred of integrity yet' after ex-Deputy PM Dominic Raab resigned on Friday after bullying claims were upheld against him

Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson told ex-Tory councillor Sebastian Leslie to 'come outside and we'll sort it out' in row about MP Andrew Bridgen being kicked out of the party for comparing Covid jabs to the Holocaust

Oil and gas firms paid £4.4billion in windfall tax payments in the past year, which is way below the £7.2billion the government had forecast

The anti-strikes bill, which could see public sector workers including nurses sacked for taking part in walkouts, could add 'stress' to the relationship between workers and employers, MPs were told

The ex-prime minister said the Home Secretary's Illegal Migration Bill will prevent traffickers being prosecuted and consign innocent people to misery

Tamworth MP Chris Pincher resigned as Deputy Chief Whip last summer after allegations he had drunkenly groped two men in a private members' club in London - in a scandal that set in motion the end of Boris Johnson's premiership